Understanding Windows 7's 'GodMode'

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18 points·kosofalla··12 comments

This must be some new meaning of the word "understanding" that I'm unfamiliar with. The linked article offers zero explanation, only demonstration.

I don't understand your comment.

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My comment consisted of two sentences terminated with periods. Each sentence expressed an opinion about the article linked at the top of the present page.

I've asked myself for more details on the comment and how it came to be. But so far, I am silent on the topic.

"GodMode" is basically just a folder that contains all of the options from Control Panel in a simplified list:

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=2724

Why are people so excited about this? It's not actually useful, just something the Shell folks left in and gave a weird name. They did that with other stuff too, I think the paint fumes around their new building were getting to them - they named the secret regkey to enable the Superbar (Win7 Taskbar) to be called "EnableCHS" for "Enable Can Haz Superbar"

The GodMode name is totally optional, its just the guid that points to the control mode.

Worth noting that the prefix "Godmode" in the folder name is not needed, any string will work.

I think IDDQD is more appropriate.

And IDKFA would enable any panels you hadn't acquired yet.

Why didn't that folder was enabled on my laptop when I bought one?? So much time would have been saved

Warning: If you have 64-bit Vista, explorer will crash and restart when trying to draw the folder icon. In other words, do not create this folder on your desktop.

I had to reboot into safe-mode-commandline to get rid of it. :-/

Here I was hoping Windows users would finally get the chance to run as root.

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