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9:00 PM - January 5, 2010 by Jane McEntegart - source: Tom's Hardware US

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Want to activate GodMode in Windows 7? Here's how!

Windows 7 users are all abuzz about the OS and its GodMode. If you haven't heard of it, GodMode is a
feature that was revealed by CNet's Microsoft Correspondent, Ina Fried. GodMode is a folder that brings Tom's Hardware on Facebook
together a long list of customization settings allowing you to change all your settings from one place. Neat Like
huh? It's very easy to enable and damn useful if you tweak things around a lot.
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I've broken it down into five-step process to avoid confusion:

Step 1: Right click.

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Step 2: Click create folder.

Step 3: Name your sparkly, new folder this, "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" and

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Step 4: Blink as the folder changes form to look like the control panel.

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Step 5: Open the folder and bask in all your godly, control panel-y power.

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jonpaul37 01/05/2010 5:30 PM 20 Hide

Oh my God!... mode...

vonarx 01/05/2010 5:31 PM 0 Hide

coolest thing ever

walt526 01/05/2010 5:31 PM 12 Hide

Excellent, I hadn't heard of this before. Thanks!

volks1470 01/05/2010 5:31 PM 9 Hide

I thought it was a joke, yep! It sure does work, even on the RC!

haze4peace 01/05/2010 5:35 PM 9 Hide

Thanks for the info. This is pretty awesome.

ecnovaec 01/05/2010 5:36 PM 11 Hide

this is way better than jesus mode!

Fendulon 01/05/2010 5:37 PM 20 Hide

Just so you all know... as neat as it is.. not GodMod, bit of a trick really.

The folder will be named whatever you put before the period.

Elephant.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Will give you an elephant control panel.

Neat non the less.

rcpratt 01/05/2010 5:38 PM 2 Hide

Cool, but I don't see myself using it much. It is nice to have everything in one place, though.

sloth2004 01/05/2010 5:38 PM Show

ecnovaec 01/05/2010 5:40 PM 20 Hide

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Fendulon :

Just so you all know... as neat as it is.. not GodMod, bit of a trick really.The folder will be named
whatever you put before the period.Elephant.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}Will give you
an elephant control panel.Neat non the less.

blasphemy

seriousazn 01/05/2010 5:40 PM 5 Hide

Awesome, now I don't hafta run around clicking random stuff to find out what I can tweak

seriousazn 01/05/2010 5:41 PM 17 Hide

Fendulon :

Just so you all know... as neat as it is.. not GodMod, bit of a trick really.The folder will be named
whatever you put before the period.Elephant.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}Will give you
an elephant control panel.Neat non the less.

Shunn the nonbeliever...shunn

lightsaber 01/05/2010 5:42 PM 4 Hide

Wow...awesome, good job Ina Fried.

sunflier 01/05/2010 5:43 PM 10 Hide

Also, a hidden feature in Windows Vista proves to be useful.

SelfDestructMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

mitch074 01/05/2010 5:44 PM -3 Hide

...And people complain that the Linux command line is hard.

It sure is harder to do

vim /etc/fstab

than

Godmode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Latter is much more intuitive. Indeed.

[/sarcasm]

still, damn useful trick.

libraryeli 01/05/2010 5:45 PM Show

jerreece 01/05/2010 5:47 PM Show

christop 01/05/2010 5:47 PM 0 Hide

Very cool..

jerreece 01/05/2010 5:48 PM Show

kavic 01/05/2010 5:53 PM 3 Hide

libraryeli :

Awesome find Ina. Although...Wow, you need a secret "godmode" hack to be able to do something that
MS should have put into the OS by default -- a clear, concise, all-in-one control panel.Congratulations
Microsoft, you show us how much disdain you have for the people who pay your salaries, and you fail
once again.

I think the reason that this was not out and easy to get to is because the majority of people tend to not
know what they are doing, so the last think MS wanted to do was make it so the user can potently screw
things up. So having this activated by a special means puts the power in the hands of the ones who know
how to use it or have the common sense to know how to use it.

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james800 01/05/2010 5:55 PM 7 Hide

Also works on vista too!

ecnovaec 01/05/2010 5:57 PM 20 Hide

jerreece :

Shows how much you know...Jesus = God = Holy SpiritIt's called a Trinity. Three persons in One. One
person in Three forms, yet one God. It's a hard one to grasp mentally, but you'll get it after a while.

it is hard to grasp mentally because I think logically....

warezme 01/05/2010 6:00 PM 2 Hide

non believers shall be burned at the stake. begin the crusade, who is with me?

Anonymous 01/05/2010 6:03 PM Show

JMcEntegart 01/05/2010 6:09 PM 11 Hide

Fendulon :

The folder will be named whatever you put before the period.

JaneMode it is!

Lewis57 01/05/2010 6:14 PM Show

JMcEntegart 01/05/2010 6:15 PM 0 Hide

bakabaka :

does this work on win 7 64? i thought this crashes win 7 64bit

AFAIK it's fine with Vista 64 bit but crashes on 32... Haven't heard anything about Win7 64. I tried it on the
RC.

nirvanabah 01/05/2010 6:19 PM 2 Hide

Works in Vista as well.

nirvanabah 01/05/2010 6:20 PM -2 Hide

FYI - this works in Vista as well.

rcpratt 01/05/2010 6:21 PM 2 Hide

It works fine on Win7 64.

nirvanabah 01/05/2010 6:21 PM 3 Hide

Sorry, appears i'm a bit slow and its already been addressed! My apologies for the double post as well.

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