More God Modes in Windows 7

Marius Bancila — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:37:05 +0000

In my previous post I wrote about a feature called “god mode” available in Windows 7 and Vista. By creating a folder with a specific name you get one entry point to all the commands available in Control Panel. It was reported that several such shortcuts exits. Below is an image with the 16 folders that are god modes.

All 16 god modes

You can create them all by making and running (from the desired parent folder) a .cmd or .bat file with the following content:

mkdir ControlPanel.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
mkdir LocationSensor.{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
mkdir BiometricDevice.{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
mkdir PowerOptions.{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
mkdir TaskbarIcons.{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
mkdir Credentials.{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
mkdir InstallFromNetwork.{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
mkdir DefaultPrograms.{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
mkdir PublicKeys.{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
mkdir WifiNetworks.{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
mkdir Network.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
mkdir Computer.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
mkdir Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
mkdir workplaceConnetions.{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
mkdir Firewall.{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
mkdir PerformanceRatings.{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}

(You can get the GUIDs of the folders from the above listing).

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