"God Mode" in Windows 7

[Gene E. Bloch]

Yes I am!
I just now tried it. Enabled the administrator account. logged on there,
opened a command prompt with run as administrator (probably redundant)
typed in DEL /F /Q /A "file location and name(there is no extension)"
Result: Cannot find user/Steve/desktop etc (or something about like that
- I'm back logged in my normal account so can't bring up that command
prompt window easily) - Steve

Back in the original thread, there is some new stuff by R. C. White
which *might* solve the problem.

See
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

 

[Valorie *~]

More of a TweakUI for WIN7, I installed it back in January when I got this
computer.

It works on Vista also.

 

[BookWight]

Wandering along the edges of alt.windows7.general, I found the following
bit of electronic flotsam written by Stan Brown

While searching for answers to the "Desktop Icons folder" problem I
just posted, I ran across an interesting article at Cnet called
"Understanding Windows 7's 'GodMode'".

You create a folder with a particular name, and it will automatically
be populated with links to just about every kind of customization or
setting you can do, in one list under a couple of dozen categories.
It's pretty cool. I don't think there's anything there that we
couldn't get through other means, but having it all in one list is
pretty impressive.

Create a new folder and call it
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
The name changes to GodMode and the icon looks Control-Panelish. Open
the folder and you'll see all the settings.

Aparently, you can't do this via copy & paste - you have to type in the
string. If you copy and paste the string, you get a warning about
characters that can't be included in a folder name (none of which are in
the string, oddly enough)

 

[Leala]

Wandering along the edges of alt.windows7.general, I found the following
bit of electronic flotsam written by Stan Brown


Aparently, you can't do this via copy& paste - you have to type in the
string. If you copy and paste the string, you get a warning about
characters that can't be included in a folder name (none of which are in
the string, oddly enough)

Yes you can.
You must be doing something wrong.

 

[SC Tom]

Wandering along the edges of alt.windows7.general, I found the following
bit of electronic flotsam written by Stan Brown


Aparently, you can't do this via copy & paste - you have to type in the
string. If you copy and paste the string, you get a warning about
characters that can't be included in a folder name (none of which are in
the string, oddly enough)

I copied and pasted it over "NewFolder" and it worked fine, except in
doesn't drop the string after GodMode. Maybe it's one of the settings I have
in Folder Options, but the string is still there if I manually enter it,
too.

 

[Stan Brown]

Wandering along the edges of alt.windows7.general, I found the following
bit of electronic flotsam written by Stan Brown

Where did you find that? Don't tell me Google has finally started
archiving this newsgroup!

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Wandering along the edges of alt.windows7.general, I found the
following bit of electronic flotsam written by Stan Brown


Aparently, you can't do this via copy & paste - you have to type in
the string. If you copy and paste the string, you get a warning
about characters that can't be included in a folder name (none of
which are in the string, oddly enough)

I'd like to shoot the idiot who dreamed up the "GodMode" name. In fact,
that name is totally arbitrary. The
".{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" string is what is
critical. You can give it any name you want. It can be as simple as
"x.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}."

 

[Roland Schweiger]

"Dave "Crash"
I'd like to shoot the idiot who dreamed up the "GodMode" name. In
fact,
that name is totally arbitrary. The
".{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" string is what is
critical. You can give it any name you want. It can be as simple as
"x.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}."


True, it works here.
Does any one know what the string actually means?
If this is a HEX string, it is 16 Byte (the - symbol is out of place)
for curiosity i looked at the binary equivalent but do not see any
significant pattern.

greetings

Roland Schweiger

 

[Stan Brown]

Does any one know what the string actually means?

It's a CLSID. You'll see zillions of them in the System Registry
under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. Each one is a unique identifier, but they
don't have any intrinsic meaning.

 

[Roland Schweiger]

"Stan Brown"

It's a CLSID. You'll see zillions of them in the System Registry
under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. Each one is a unique identifier, but they
don't have any intrinsic meaning.

Thanks. That explains the - symbol (8-4-4-12) as if i understand
correctly, this type of representation applies to all CLSIDs.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

"Stan Brown"

Thanks. That explains the - symbol (8-4-4-12) as if i understand
correctly, this type of representation applies to all CLSIDs.

Also GUIDs, which IIRC means "Globally Unique IDentifier".

They are in effect random numbers expressed in hex with a few hyphens
thrown in. Since they such large numbers, a collison is unlikely, but I
am in no position to understand how they are kept unique, sorry.

 

[Sunny Bard]

GUIDs, which IIRC means "Globally Unique IDentifier".
They are in effect random numbers expressed in hex with a few hyphens
thrown in. Since they such large numbers, a collison is unlikely, but I
am in no position to understand how they are kept unique, sorry.

Nothing *keeps* them unique, but in practice they are assumed to be
unique on the grounds that a collision is very very very very unlikely
to occur

It grates to use them, but cosmic rays probably have more chance of
altering a GUID after it's stored in RAM, than you have of generating a
duplicate one by fluke.

 

[Roland Schweiger]

"Sunny Bard"

It grates to use them, but cosmic rays probably have more chance of
altering a GUID after it's stored in RAM, than you have of generating
a
duplicate one by fluke.

just wonder why they did not put the hiphen after every 16bit HEX
word, but maybe this is to distinguish from other uses (e.g. ipv6
adresses) ...

greetings

Roland Schweiger

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Nothing *keeps* them unique, but in practice they are assumed to be
unique on the grounds that a collision is very very very very unlikely
to occur

It grates to use them, but cosmic rays probably have more chance of
altering a GUID after it's stored in RAM, than you have of generating a
duplicate one by fluke.

It would help if the date-time were somehow included in the encoding.

 

[Sunny Bard]

It would help if the date-time were somehow included in the encoding.

There is a sub-type that is generated partly based on time, and partly
on MAC address. Microsoft were criticised for these because when they
become embedded in an office document it allows tracking the creation of
a document to a machine and a time range.

 

[Joe Morris]

[from] "Sunny Bard":

It grates to use them, but cosmic rays probably have more chance of
altering a GUID after it's stored in RAM, than you have of generating a
duplicate one by fluke.

just wonder why they did not put the hiphen after every 16bit HEX word,
but maybe this is to distinguish from other uses (e.g. ipv6 adresses) ...

Microsoft declared the pattern of 8-4-4-4-12 (by digits) to be the standard
format. Mere mortals should not question that decision.

BTW: have you noticed that some of the GUID-type identifiers used by
Microsoft Office include the hexadecimal string "0FF1CE"? And the remainder
of the "guid" isn't exactly random?

Look in the Registry for "{90140000-00xx-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}" as a
folder name in %WINDIR%\Installer for various values of xx.

Joe

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

[from] "Sunny Bard":

It grates to use them, but cosmic rays probably have more chance of
altering a GUID after it's stored in RAM, than you have of generating a
duplicate one by fluke.

just wonder why they did not put the hiphen after every 16bit HEX word,
but maybe this is to distinguish from other uses (e.g. ipv6 adresses) ...

Microsoft declared the pattern of 8-4-4-4-12 (by digits) to be the standard
format. Mere mortals should not question that decision.

All too true

BTW: have you noticed that some of the GUID-type identifiers used by
Microsoft Office include the hexadecimal string "0FF1CE"? And the remainder
of the "guid" isn't exactly random?

Here's a Firefox add-in for Java:
{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0026-ABCDEFFEDCBA}

Note the CAFE spelled both ways, as well as the palindromic alphabetic
string at the end. The numbers in the middle encode the version.

Probably not exactly a GUID.

I wouldn't have known this except for researching a bug in Java or
Firefox that doesn't delete old versions of the Java add-in.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Nothing *keeps* them unique, but in practice they are assumed to be
unique on the grounds that a collision is very very very very unlikely
to occur

I said that because, IIRC, I have read that there is a mechanism to
avoid collisions, but obviously it would have to be confined within a
controlled environment.

Please note the "IIRC" - it might be a clue.

 

[Sunny Bard]

Please note the "IIRC" - it might be a clue.

Your usage of IIRC seemed confined to what GUID was short for, rather
than how they are formed.

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Please note the "IIRC" - it might be a clue.

"IIRC" becomes more relevant with age.