Enable the secret ‘GodMode’ in Windows 7
GodMode is the name given to cheats in video games that provide you with all weapons and access to all areas. As it turns out, Windows 7 has a GodMode cheat as well as uncovered by Caschy. It is basically a control panel of sorts which provides you access to all the features in one explorer window. In the Windows 7 control panel, features are grouped together either in categories or control panel item names. Nothing is grouped under anything in GodMode.
Here’s how to enable it:
- Create a new folder.
- Rename it to : GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
- That’s it. The icon should change to the one shown below:
This is what the GodMode Window will look like:
I still prefer the control panel over GodMode since everything is easier to find under the categories. I’ve tired this in Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and it works fine. If you try it in Windows Vista, let us know if it works in the comments.
Update: Don’t try this on Vista x64 unless you want it to crash. Let us know if it works on Vista 32 bit though.
Update 2: Turns out this isn’t a new trick. It was discovered in Vista called Master Control Panel by Ramesh Kumar. If you’re facing crashes, here’s a fix.
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Does anyone know if GodMode works in Vista 64?
No. Vista 64 will start crashing if you install GodMode in it.
GOD MODE IS JUST A NAME FOR IT…..
EVEN IF U JUST WRITE
AnythingUlike.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
it will work
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Wow, am I screwed… looking for help. Kim Komando’s Saturday newsletter mentioned this and included something like “some Vista 64 bit users reported crashes”. That didn’t sound too serious, so I tried it on my Vista 64 system, figuring I could delete it or do a system restore or something. Not so… I just have this endless loop of warnings saying ‘Windows Explorer has failed and will now close” and it tries to do an error report, but can’t. I open Task Manager and try to stop the application, but that doesn’t work.
About the only thing I can do is log off that user and go to the administrator account. If I had everything available on the admin account, I’d just delete the other user account and start a new one, as the admin account seems to be OK.
Any suggestions? I’d really like to re-access that user account as it is tweaked nearly perfectly.
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