Christopher_001

May 13, 2019 1 Minute Read

Christopher

Christopher_001FL14 years in IT

Main Areas of Contribution:

Useful administrative controls, all in one folder.

"It puts hundreds of settings from all around the operating system all in one place.To turn on God Mode, create a new folder on your desktop or anywhere you’d like and name it: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}. Don’t include the final period. The resulting folder will contain 270 items, representing virtually every configurable option in Windows."

-vid

2 Steps total

Step 1: Create a new folder and name it the following

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

Step 2: Browse the folder for a variety of administrative controls.

Many useful shortcuts are available in this folder.

"The functionality that was discovered and named Master Control Panel or "God Mode" was designed as the base folder for searching control panel options using the new start menu's search function. This allows users to type what they want to do (e. g. “Change screen resolution”) and they will get the right control panel options as search result. The shortcut is implemented by creating a folder with the extension .{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}. GodMode was the original folder name used when the feature was publicised, but any name can be used. The same functionality can be achieved by creating a standard Windows shortcut with the path explorer.exe shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} or by creating a Desktop.ini file in a folder that includes the extension's CLSID (Class ID)."

-Wikipedia

5 Comments

Chipotle

Michael (Paessler) May 13, 2019 at 01:55pm

Never heard about that! That's pretty cool! Makes live a little bit easier.
Cayenne

philgman May 13, 2019 at 02:43pm

i forgot all about this. i created the folder on my usb for on-site support tools.
Serrano

Court Potts May 13, 2019 at 02:50pm

This is really cool. Thanks for sharing!

As someone who primarily learned about Windows through hands-on experimentation, I wonder how many more secret techniques like this I'm missing...
Thai Pepper

GhillieHammer May 13, 2019 at 05:05pm

Yup. Been around since Windows 7. Been using it for years and even have it on a thumbdrive with all the rest of my mobile tools.
Jalapeno

Mr-Wooden Jun 20, 2019 at 05:00pm

Lawdy how have i not heard of this.
TY Sir.