Windows 7 hack – GodMode

Posted by vikas on Thursday, February 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Windows 7 comes up with lot of features and utilities. This Windows hack better known as GodMode is a built in feature in Windows 7 that allow you to access all Windows utilities in one spot. This built in feature hasn’t been yet advertised. To access this feature you just need to create a new folder and name it as
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

This will help open it up and you get access to the display options, backup or recovery, power management and many more options. This is very helpful for those users who forget where to access the defragmenter or the device manager. And if you are lucky you will find any other useful utility you never knew existed.

It’s been quite a few years that Microsoft has tinkered with its Control Panel. Other hacks for windows 7 are easy and well know. If you want to get Windows vista style taskbar in your Windows 7 you just have to right click on the taskbar and select properties dialog. Then select the small icons checkboxes. When taskbar is full select combine which will give you same functionality as vista.
You can easily unlock the hidden themes of the Windows 7 themes. Open the Explorer and go to C: \Windows\winsxs and then press *. Theme into the search field or else use * on the number block. This will lead you to click me prompt. You can double click on the themes to install them.

To enable the quick launch bar in Windows 7 right click on the task bar and then select toolbars and go to new toolbar from menu. Then copy paste the following address in the address bar.
%SystemDrive%Users%username%AppDataRoamingMicrosoftInternet Explorer

Then click to navigate to the folder and then you can see the Quick Launch folder so select it to enable.