Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Create God Mode in Windows Vista/7

A new feature called “God Mode” has been making the rounds on blogs, news websites, tweets,Windows based Forums etc over the last few days. Apparently you decide to call it “God Mode” Just a look behind the scenes.

Impaired Facts of God Mode

It is a special shell folder called “All Tasks” that holds a list of all available Control Panel Tasks, which is used as the source of the “Control Panel” search results seen in the Start menu and Control Panel itself.

How To Create:

Method 1:

1. Create a new folder and name it as below(instead of "God Mode" you can use any other term as name)

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

2. The icon will be changed automatically to Control Panel’s icon. Now open the folder and see themagic of Windows Registry!


Method 2:

Create a shortcut with following path and set desired icon:

explorer.exe shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Note: Sometimes…it kills explorer.exe using Method 1! probably Windows Vista x64 editions. Therefore I suggest to use Method 2.
To get rid of this issue, Boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt and delete that folder. For eg. You created a folder Master Control.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} on desktop, So either navigate to Desktop folder execute the following command:

RmDir “Master Control.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}”

Or type the absolute path of folder, like-

RmDir “C:\Users\\Desktop\Master Control.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}”