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What is the "God Mode" folder in Windows 10, and how do I enable it? (2022)
- wdfx 2y agoAllegedly also works in Windows 11 https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-enable-god-mode-windows-11-what-is-it/ https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-enable-god-mode-window...
- markbnj 2y agoConfirmed it does work in Windows 11, and the desktop folder shortcut even gets assigned a special icon... however there is so much stuff in the folder I am not sure its really going to be that useful.
- HWR_14 2y agoThe Settings folder is back! I guess it had a hardcoded GUID?
- jeroenhd 2y agoThey're pre-generated by Microsoft. There's a list in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID you can use to try and find new ones. They've also been documented online for at least a decade, so you can save yourself the trouble. Very few of these CLSID folders are actually useful to have somewhere. An interesting, but underused, feature of Windows is that applications can actually register CLSIDs like these and host their own special "explorer" panels.
- HWR_14 2y agoVery interesting, thanks. I'm not sure how valuable most of these are. But this seems to bring back the settings explorer panel, which I personally prefer.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 2y agoIt is a sad commentary on current trends that basic admin functionality is considered 'god mode' that is hidden with secret passphrases. Good grief. I absolutely hate that PCs are being made into cell phones.
- codeulike 2y agoIts all stuff you can still get to, its just that this lists it in one place
- diggan 2y ago> No, God Mode doesn't unlock any extra secret features in Windows or let you do any tweaking that you can't do in the regular Windows interface. Instead, it's simply a special folder you can enable that exposes most of Windows' admin, management, settings, and Control Panel tools in a single, easy-to-scroll-through interface. Not sure what you think this says about current trends, when nothing is hidden or locked behind secret passphrases. There are plenty of things to despise about the Windows and Microsoft, but a directory with a special name having shortcuts to things that are already accessible, might be very low on this ladder of shit.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 2y agoI disagree. The trajectory is pretty clear if you remember what Windows 98 control panel looked like and then compare it to Windows 10. Things are slowly being removed outside user's view for one reason or another ( we can speculate about the why, but it is largely irrelevant as the end result is the same ). It is admittedly a small thing. In a grand scheme of things, it is almost laughable given what MS has done so far. That said, small steps slowly erode the resistance we once had. Not that long ago users would have revolted over 'always on' requirement for games that are not mmos. Now it is standard. Not that long ago users would have revolted over claims that a company collected data and sent it to the mothership. Now it is practically expected. All those started with small, negligible attempts that eventually broke the resistance.
- diggan 2y ago
- teeray 2y agoIsn’t this just… the Win9x/NT style control panel?
- jeroenhd 2y agoIt's a special GUID registered in explorer that (I believe) lists all registered control panel applets and screens. The control panel is still there in Windows 11 (win+r, "control") but these applets are slowly being removed as the settings screen is getting more features. This trick goes back to at least Windows XP.
- rbanffy 2y agoI wonder what other UUIDs lead to.
- jeroenhd 2y agoHere's a list: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/list-of-windows-11-clsid-key-guid-shortcuts.1075/ https://www.elevenforum.com/t/list-of-windows-11-clsid-key-g...
- rbanffy 2y agoAre there all that were implemented or only the ones actually observed?
- jeroenhd 2y agoYou can try them for yourself. Last time I checked (back on Windows 7) they all worked. I don't think Microsoft has had any reason to remove the old ones, they're just part of the legacy control panel.
- scintill76 2y agoAs a teenager on Windows 98, I think, I went through the CLSIDs in the registry and embedded them in folder names like this to see what happened. I don’t remember anything really cool happening, but I think I found a few special ones. One hung the system, or at least the shell, and my dad wasn’t happy about my experiments. Also played with a feature where explorer would render your HTML when you opened the folder (maybe a desktop.ini setting), and there was probably a bit of JS integration possible.
- tommis 2y agoThis is simply a Control Panel page with "All Tasks"... You can simply run shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} or make shortcut "explorer.exe shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}"
- albert_e 2y agoInteresting. Why doesn't MS just let us "pin" this to Quick Access like a folder
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- dailykoder 2y agoHow can I enable this on Arch, does anyone know?
- edward28 2y agoSudo.
- albert_e 2y agoOn a tangent ... Somethings I miss: Ability to add a Folder as a "toolbar" to the taskbar. Ability to keep the "calendar" window open while working on another window. Ability to set custom date format say dd-mmm-yyyy in the system tray -- without changing Language/Region/Locale settings across the OS and all apps. Desktop Widgets!
- scaryclam 2y agoFor those of us who don't use windows regularly enough to remember the tool names, this is wonderful to know about.
- JohnFen 2y agoThis looks incredibly useful. Why is it a "hidden" feature and not enabled out of the box?
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