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Windows "God Mode"

$Windows \"God Mode\"$

Not many people know of this sometimes handy, and pretty well-hidden feature of Windows. And that would be the Godmode folder. Which contains pretty much anything to change your computers settings.

This works on Windows 7, and Windows Vista. I haven't tried it with Windows XP yet, but someone should definitely give it a try!

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Step 1What YOU need to do

Okay, this is pretty simple!

Step 1(Pic 1): make a new folder on your desktop, or wherever you prefer.

Step 2(Pic 2): name the new folder... GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
(Just copy and paste that as the name)

Step 3(Pic 3): click and open your new folder!

Step 4(Pic 4): if your did it correctly, after you click the icon, this window should show up.

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31 comments

Mar 18, 2012. 9:30 AMgnoseon says:

Does this work on Windows 7 Starter?

Mar 18, 2012. 2:44 PMJamesMontour (author) says:

I believe it should, I have not tested in on 7 starter

Oct 26, 2011. 11:51 PMad29111 says:

This works because both vista and win 7 use something called GUID. Search it up. So this isn't really "god mode" it's just a link to control panel

Oct 11, 2011. 3:41 PMjmcmonagle says:

Does not work on Vista 64. Causes explorer to restart over and over. If you are experiencing this boot to safe mode command prompt. CD to users desktop and remove directory. This is the way... If you have trouble with this (or don’t have another computer) then you can reboot into safe mode command prompt. Then you can change directories to the desktop (cd c:\users\USERNAME\desktop). Then run the following command: rd /s “GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}” Click Y, when asked.
"quoted from chris barba under random technical thoughts"

Jul 10, 2011. 9:34 PM

colorex says:

Dude you blew my head off with that!

Jun 4, 2011. 10:07 AMscreenguy says:

windows xp doesnt work it comes up windows dosent regoinise this file

Feb 27, 2011. 6:07 PMWesfletch says:

How did you even find this out? Are you from Narnia?

Feb 28, 2011. 9:40 PMJamesMontour (author) says:

Yes, yes I am.

Mar 1, 2011. 5:40 PMWesfletch says:

That's pretty scary actually. How's Aslan?

Jan 6, 2010. 11:12 AMcornboy3 says:

Isn't that just a full listing of the control panel?

Jan 6, 2010. 11:40 AMJamesMontour (author) says:

Yes, and also no. It has the expanded contents of the Control Panel, as well as the Administrative tools, and a few other things.

Mar 1, 2011. 10:04 AMAdam-S says:

hooray, thats good.

now i can edit user account control! :) (even if i AM an administrator)

Jan 6, 2010. 2:33 PMcornboy3 says:

But in windows vista/7 all the administrative tools are listed very deep into the control panel. Here you can just see all the control panel items in a list format

Feb 27, 2011. 1:16 AMAdam-S says:

why dosent god mode work in the documents folder?

Feb 28, 2011. 9:40 PMJamesMontour (author) says:

What do you mean?

Mar 1, 2011. 10:02 AMAdam-S says:

i created the god mode folder and named it correctly. i did all this in the 'documents' folder of my vista pc. but when i clicked on it, my explorer crashed and restarted!