Windows 7 GodMode

[BillW50]

Anybody ever heard about this GodMode under Vista/Windows 7. The story
is to create a new folder on the desktop (other places might work too)
and rename the folder to the following:

GodMode.{ed7ba470-8e54-465e-825c-99712043e01c}

And supposedly you have new utilities that allow you to do such things
as CHANGE, ALLOW, BACKUP, BLOCK ADD, ADJUST....AND so on.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Anybody ever heard about this GodMode under Vista/Windows 7. The story

Yes - we heard about it here, last post less than two weeks ago; the
first post (in that thread) was apparently 2010-Nov-10, and pointed to
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html .

is to create a new folder on the desktop (other places might work too)
and rename the folder to the following:

GodMode.{ed7ba470-8e54-465e-825c-99712043e01c}

And supposedly you have new utilities that allow you to do such things
as CHANGE, ALLOW, BACKUP, BLOCK ADD, ADJUST....AND so on.

Later posts suggested that the part of the name before the dot doesn't
have to be "GodMode". I haven't tried that, though I tried it with
GodMode, and it certainly works (or seems to).

 

[BillW50]

In

Yes - we heard about it here, last post less than two weeks ago; the
first post (in that thread) was apparently 2010-Nov-10, and pointed to
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html .

Later posts suggested that the part of the name before the dot doesn't
have to be "GodMode". I haven't tried that, though I tried it with
GodMode, and it certainly works (or seems to).

Ah okay, I don't check in here too often. So I thought I found something
that you guys didn't know yet. Gosh, I should have known better. ;-)

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Yes - we heard about it here, last post less than two weeks ago; the
first post (in that thread) was apparently 2010-Nov-10, and pointed
to http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html .

Later posts suggested that the part of the name before the dot
doesn't have to be "GodMode". I haven't tried that, though I tried it
with GodMode, and it certainly works (or seems to).

"GodMode" makes me cringe. Lacking imagination, I call mine "Action" and
include it in the Administrative Tools folder of my Start menu.

I don't think it allows you to do anything that you can't do already
with other applications and tools. It just makes specific functions
easier to find.

 

[Ed Cryer]

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Ah okay, I don't check in here too often. So I thought I found something
that you guys didn't know yet. Gosh, I should have known better. ;-)

I'd heard of it but never tried it. So I tried it and found something I
like.
"View Reliability History" under Action Centre.
And I am plesed to announce that ........ mine is now steady at mach 10,
having recovered from an event when bookworm.exe crashed in mid June due
to me having had the wrong (as I recall) screen resolution settings in
force.

Ed

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Anybody ever heard about this GodMode under Vista/Windows 7. The story
is to create a new folder on the desktop (other places might work too)
and rename the folder to the following:

GodMode.{ed7ba470-8e54-465e-825c-99712043e01c}

And supposedly you have new utilities that allow you to do such things
as CHANGE, ALLOW, BACKUP, BLOCK ADD, ADJUST....AND so on.

I've got it setup here on my system. So far I haven't found anything on
it that I can't also do through Control Panel or Computer-Manage. It's
useful as an all-encompassing one-stop shop though.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Yousuf Khan]

I don't think it allows you to do anything that you can't do already
with other applications and tools. It just makes specific functions
easier to find.

Exactly.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Ken Blake]

Anybody ever heard about this GodMode under Vista/Windows 7. The story
is to create a new folder on the desktop (other places might work too)
and rename the folder to the following:

GodMode.{ed7ba470-8e54-465e-825c-99712043e01c}

And supposedly you have new utilities that allow you to do such things
as CHANGE, ALLOW, BACKUP, BLOCK ADD, ADJUST....AND so on.

I've had it here for a while, but I almost never use it. It's not
really new utilities, but rather an easier way to access some things.

Ken

 

[Ken Blake]

I've had it here for a while, but I almost never use it. It's not
really new utilities, but rather an easier way to access some things.

And to add the above, it's a special view of Windows Explorer.

 

[Art Todesco]

In

Ah okay, I don't check in here too often. So I thought I found something
that you guys didn't know yet. Gosh, I should have known better. ;-)

Don't feel bad, I've been here for the last few months and I guess I
missed it too. I do seem to remember something about GodMode, but it
was probably before getting this new PC with Windows 7 .... and at that
time I was more interesting in things like, will my printer and scanner
work in windows 7 and so on. I just tried it and, of course, it works,
as other have said. Now I have to try to use it.

 

[Bob I]

Installed it about a year and a half ago, it's convenient when you are
looking for something you remember from XP and have trouble finding it
in the "new" arrangement of Win 7's layout.

 

[Boscoe]

Anybody ever heard about this GodMode under Vista/Windows 7. The story
is to create a new folder on the desktop (other places might work too)
and rename the folder to the following:

GodMode.{ed7ba470-8e54-465e-825c-99712043e01c}

And supposedly you have new utilities that allow you to do such things
as CHANGE, ALLOW, BACKUP, BLOCK ADD, ADJUST....AND so on.

Microsoft buried it deep in Vista and Windows 7 because playing God is
not to be taken lightly. Fiddlers beware!

 

[W8CCW]

I renamed mine to GenieMode".
Now if I could find a voice synth that sounds like Barbara Eden...

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In

In message<[email protected]>, BillW50<[email protected]>
writes:
Anybody ever heard about this GodMode under Vista/Windows 7. The
story

Yes - we heard about it here, last post less than two weeks ago; the
first post (in that thread) was apparently 2010-Nov-10, and pointed to
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html .

[]
Ah okay, I don't check in here too often. So I thought I found something
that you guys didn't know yet. Gosh, I should have known better. ;-)

Don't feel bad, I've been here for the last few months and I guess I
missed it too. I do seem to remember something about GodMode, but it
was probably before getting this new PC with Windows 7 .... and at that

[]
Indeed: sorry, my response wasn't supposed to sound as like a reprimand
as it did.

(As others have said, it looks as if it doesn't do anything that can't
be done anywhere else, but is a convenient collection together in one
place of lots of things.)

 

[Stan Brown]

Anybody ever heard about this GodMode under Vista/Windows 7.

Yes, and it was discussed extensively here about a week ago.

 

[Allen Drake]

"GodMode" makes me cringe.

Why, don't you believe in MODES?

Lacking imagination, I call mine "Action" and

 

[Allen Drake]

I renamed mine to GenieMode".
Now if I could find a voice synth that sounds like Barbara Eden...

The Genie on the Three Stooges was A Big GUY with A Turban.

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Why, don't you believe in MODES?

I just think "GodMode" is a little pretentious. I have a similar
reaction to "webmaster."

 

[Allen Drake]

I just think "GodMode" is a little pretentious. I have a similar
reaction to "webmaster."

Just kidding.

What happens goes online.

 

[Paul]

I just think "GodMode" is a little pretentious. I have a similar
reaction to "webmaster."

I don't think it was meant to be pretentious. It's a term from
gaming, being reused.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GodMode

Maybe they could have called it KickAssMode instead ? Gamers
would understand that.

Paul