I’m a big fan of Windows 7, it has finally moved me from XP on my work machines. However I still haven’t quite got the locations for the settings stuck in the old memory and find myself hunting for them every now and then. I was going to blog about a piece of software called Windows 7 In A Box which puts a whole load of commonly used Windows setting into one place. I guess in fact I have just done that. But before going off to look at that, try the “official” Windows 7 “Gode Mode” instead.
I use the word official simply because this works with vanilla out the box Windows 7 and therefore I assume was put there by the boys in Redmond. To gain access to the mode simply do the following;
- Create a new folder (I chose my home folder but anywhere should do)
- Rename the folder with the following name –
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
The whole name is important so I’d advise copying and pasting. That’s all there is to it. Now you should have a folder with the same icon as the control panel, open it and you will gain access to a whole shedload of settings, some of which are hard to locate, some that don’t actually have GUI access normally.
