STFU && RTFM

A nifty little way of getting a more finegrained level of control over Windows 7, is using the so-called GodMode option. By creating a folder, and giving it a specific name, you will get access to loads of options:
 

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To enable GodMode, you need to do the following:
 

1. Create a new folder, anywhere you like
2. Call the new folder GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

 
That’s it. You’ll see the folder icon changes, adn looks like a control panel, and you can create shortcuts to it wherever you want.
 
Note: You don’t actually have to call the folder GodMode. What’s important is that you leave everything behind the . as shown above.

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   February 11th, 2010 at 8:05 am #

   [...] recently wrote about the so-called God mode in Windows 7. As it turns out, there are as many as seventeen of them. In addition to the “full” God [...]

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