What Is the “God Mode” Folder in Windows 10, and How Do I Enable It?

howtogeek.com ^ | JANUARY 24, 2019 | MARSHALL GUNNELL

[Berlin_Freeper]

What if Windows let you quickly access administrative tools, backup and restore options and other important management settings from a single window? If that sounds good, look no further than the so-called “God Mode.”

[Red Badger]

TEOTWAWKI...............

[z3n]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-o9OkvRW0

[taxcontrol]

try “su root”

/sarc

[Buckeye McFrog]

God Mode? The icon probably looks like Obama.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Just create a folder with the name they give you. When you open that folder you’ll see all the stuff.

[mkleesma]

Bunp for later

[the_daug]

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

Create a folder and then rename by cutting the above line pasting to name the folder. I never created a gm since vista becase it was never that useful. Use CMD in administrator mode.

[Mr. K]

wow that actually works

[ChildOfThe60s]

Bttt

[Kommodor]

I believe it’s called IDDQD

[lurked_for_a_decade]

it’s now sudo.

“su - root” - shows your age!

[Openurmind]

lol... And hope you still remember your password.

[DugwayDuke]

Simple:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-enable-god-mode-windows-10

BTW, you can find this link by typing “God Mode” in the “Type Here to Search” Box in the lower left of Windows 10.

[chuckles]

ping

for a day when I have absolutely nothing else to do.

[Thunder 6]

Now THAT was a game!

Cheers!

[Crolis]

Of course I remember my password. It’s on a sticky note on my monitor! :)

[Paul R.]

Agreed, and really this is pretty much access to the same stuff as “Control Panel”, which I have on my Desktop on a couple machines.

The one advantage to “G-mode” that I can see is that for someone somewhat less than a power user (that would definitely be me), and with one’s brain already “over capacity” when one gets a little older, the “immediate” list of tools and such could be helpful in remembering or figuring out what to do, in some instances.

For example, if I want to “Edit group policy”, but can’t exactly remember that name, this list plunks it right out in front of you. In Control Panel, one has to remember this is an “Administrative Tool”, located in “System and Security”, and look there (on this machine it there gets called “Local Security {Policy”). Or, one can do a search, hopefully inputting a closely enough relevant word or phrase.

Yeah, I know that’s “not that hard”, but, faced with handling both my elderly divorced parents affairs (my Dad’s alone need a 5-person crew, and there’s only me), MY family’s affairs, my business, my (pretty involved) additional consulting work (have to know a sizeable chunk of another business - at least the tech part is related to my own, and then a practically unlimited myriad of “computer stuff” to know (Windows all the way back to DOS 5.0 [lab computer], Android, and thinking about dipping into Linux - am I crazy?).... I am lucky to remember my own name, some days — and my work-related friends all say I have an exceptional memory???

OT: Speaking of Linux, would an old laptop that runs pretty marginally on Vista (slow) perhaps be a good candidate for my Linux “adventure”? I could fire it up and look at the hardware specs (something else I’ve forgotten - granted I have not used that machine much in the last several years.)

[Openurmind]

I got a whole notebook full. lol

[Pollard]

>>OT: Speaking of Linux, would an old laptop that runs pretty marginally on Vista (slow) perhaps be a good candidate for my Linux “adventure”? I could fire it up and look at the hardware specs (something else I’ve forgotten - granted I have not used that machine much in the last several years.)<<

Grab a lightweight version like xubuntu/lubuntu, burn it to a usb stick with pendrivelinux or unetbootin, stick that in the laptop, make sure bios is set to boot to usb disk (or hit F12 when booting to choose boot device > usb disk) and when it starts up, you’ll have access to any windows files, plus xubuntu/lubuntu will have some sort of system info page, plus you can see a lot of that in the bios. You’ll know what works and what doesn’t as far as hardware drivers. Most everything will probably work. If you end up installing it, it can download more drivers during install. Other lightweight versions I’ve used are knoppix, peppermint linux. Most any of them can be installed alongside of windows but it’s not a bad idea to run disk defragmenter first to compact windows files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Linux_distribution
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/
https://unetbootin.github.io/