Understanding Windows 7's 'GodMode' (WORKS with Vista also..)

cnet news ^ | 4-jan-10 | Ina Fried

[OL Hickory]

Although its name suggests perhaps even grander capabilities, Windows enthusiasts are excited over the discovery of a hidden "GodMode" feature that lets users access all of the operating system's control panels from within a single folder...

[OL Hickory]

I have Vista and tried this it works!!

[wastedyears]

You should be able to do that at any time, starting from the very first start-up.

[mkmensinger]

Cool!

[SkyDancer]

WOW!!!! Running VISTA

[NonLinear]

Saving this in case I become a Vista or W7 owner....

[Red in Blue PA]

Very Cool!

[COUNTrecount]

Just did it. Thanks.

[Rocky]

Interesting bio:

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley.

[TWohlford]

This is only fitting, given M$’s business model.

After all, M$ bought the Roman Catholic church to get their icon technologies.

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http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/msftchurch.html

MICROSOFT BIDS TO ACQUIRE CATHOLIC CHURCH
By Hank Vorjes

VATICAN CITY (AP) — In a joint press conference in St. Peter’s Square this morning, MICROSOFT Corp. and the Vatican announced that the Redmond software giant will acquire the Roman Catholic Church in exchange for an unspecified number of shares of MICROSOFT common stock. If the deal goes through, it will be the first time a computer software company has acquired a major world religion.

With the acquisition, Pope John Paul II will become the senior vice-president of the combined company’s new Religious Software Division, while MICROSOFT senior vice-presidents Michael Maples and Steven Ballmer will be invested in the College of Cardinals, said MICROSOFT Chairman Bill Gates.

“We expect a lot of growth in the religious market in the next five to ten years,” said Gates. “The combined resources of MICROSOFT and the Catholic Church will allow us to make religion easier and more fun for a broader range of people.”

Through the MICROSOFT Network, the company’s new on-line service, “we will make the sacraments available on-line for the first time” and revive the popular pre-Counter-Reformation practice of selling indulgences, said Gates.

“You can get Communion, confess your sins, receive absolution — even reduce your time in Purgatory — all without leaving your home.” A new software application, MICROSOFT Church, will include a macro language which you can program to download heavenly graces automatically while you are away from your computer.

An estimated 17,000 people attended the announcement in St Peter’s Square, watching on a 60-foot screen as comedian Don Novello — in character as Father Guido Sarducci — hosted the event, which was broadcast by satellite to 700 sites worldwide.

Pope John Paul II said little during the announcement. When Novello chided Gates, “Now I guess you get to wear one of these pointy hats,” the crowd roared, but the pontiff’s smile seemed strained. The deal grants MICROSOFT exclusive electronic rights to the Bible and the Vatican’s prized art collection, which includes works by such masters as Michelangelo and Da Vinci. But critics say MICROSOFT will face stiff challenges if it attempts to limit competitors’ access to these key intellectual properties.

“The Jewish people invented the look and feel of the holy scriptures,” said Rabbi David Gottschalk of Philadelphia. “You take the parting of the Red Sea— we had that thousands of years before the Catholics came on the scene.”

But others argue that the Catholic and Jewish faiths both draw on a common Abrahamic heritage. “The Catholic Church has just been more successful in marketing it to a larger audience,” notes Notre Dame theologian Father Kenneth Madigan. Over the last 2,000 years, the Catholic Church’s market share has increased dramatically, while Judaism, which was the first to offer many of the concepts now touted by Christianity, lags behind. Historically, the Church has a reputation as an aggressive competitor, leading crusades to pressure people to upgrade to Catholicism, and entering into exclusive licensing arrangements in various kingdoms whereby all subjects were instilled with Catholicism, whether or not they planned to use it. Today Christianity is available from several denominations, but the Catholic version is still the most widely used. The Church’s mission is to reach “the four corners of the earth,” echoing MICROSOFT’s vision of “a computer on every desktop and in every home”.

Gates described MICROSOFT’s long-term strategy to develop a scalable religious architecture that will support all religions through emulation. A single core religion will be offered with a choice of interfaces according to the religion desired — “One religion, a couple of different implementations,” said Gates.

The MICROSOFT move could spark a wave of mergers and acquisitions, according to Herb Peters, a spokesman for the U.S. Southern Baptist Conference, as other churches scramble to strengthen their position in the increasingly competitive religious market.

[6ppc]

Cool! Just create a folder on your desktop and rename it to

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

[plsjr]

They warn about it crashing Vista64.

I tried it and found that it causes explorer.exe to crash prompting the “Check for solution/Restart” option window.

Opening an administrative command prompt and renaming the folder solved the crashing.

Vista64 users will probably need to upgrade to Win7 to use the mode.

[Tzfat]

BTT

[rintense]

Worked for me on 7. Sweet!

[Excellence]

That was easy.

[TChad]

Terrific. Works in Vista and Win7, both 32 bit. In Vista when you create the new folder,

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

it changes to a file. In Win7 it stays a folder.

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[unixfox]

This is the way it should have been all along. Why hide the darn thing? Geez.

[freedumb2003]

Same here — cooleosity!

[daniel1212]

Does nothing in XP. Will try in the old PC running Vista.

Things like this, like the default view settings being icons rather than details, and hiding file extensions and even files, and a lack of shortcuts, inability to move taskbar buttons or changer their color, or save sessions, and the lack of customization options in IE8 (versus Firefox), reveals something of the institutionalized mode a large company (or church) can get into. Kind of like governmental versus small free enterprise.

For quicker working, i recommend getting AutoHotKey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) and making scripts to launching things quickly, even simultaneously.

Here are examples:

;#+::Run (W and Shift)
;#^::Run (W and Ctrl)
;#!::Run (W and Alt)

#+1::Run C:\QVWIN\QVWIN.exe
#+2::Run C:\Program Files\E-SWORD\e-Sword.exe
#!2::Run C:\Program Files\The Word\theword.exe
#+3::Run C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\swriter.exe
#+5::Run C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe
#+7::Run iexplore.exe
#U::Run C:\Windows\System32\appwiz.cpl
#>+1::Run C:\Windows\System32\services.msc
#>+2::Run mmsys.cpl
#>+3::Run C:\Windows\System32\restore\rstrui.exe
#>+4::Run Write.exe
#>+5::Run powercfg.cpl
#>+6::Run ncpa.cpl
#>+7::Run devmgmt.msc
#>+8::Run diskmgmt.msc
#+S::Run services.msc
#>+9::Run msconfig
#!m::Run msconfig
#+r::Run regedit.exe
#C::Run control.exe
#P::Run control printers

To simultaneously laod applications:

#+f1::
Run c:\QVWIN\QVWIN.exe
Run c:\Program Files\E-SWORD\e-Sword.exe
Run c:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\swriter.exe
Run C:\Program Files\2Firefox\firefox.exe -no-remote -p
Run c:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe
return

You can do web sites also like

Run http://www.wunderground.com/US/Region/US/2xpxFronts.html

Hope this helps a good soul. Praise God.