God Mode Easter Egg
January 4th, 2010
I did not discover this, I got it from a tweet that Rob Conery put out there. Thank you, Rob!
I don’t know if this is a Windows 7 hack or if this is available in other operating systems.
- Create a new folder on your desktop
- Name the new folder:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
The new folder will change into this icon.
Clicking your shiny new icon will result in a new window that gives shortcut access to the myriad of configuration and administration utilities in Windows that I always seem to need to hunt down.
Opening one of these nodes will provide direct access to the associated utils.
Weird and beautiful, isn’t it?
It makes me wonder what other Easter eggs are in there.
Seems there is a problem with Vista 64. See this link for another way to create this.
http://www.windowsvalley.com/blog/create-a-master-control-panel-shortcut-and-explore-the-all-tasks/
It works in Vista business 32bit.
Very cool. Thanks for posting it.
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Kevin C.
The first time I tried it with a folder it renamed two folders & one text document on my desktop. All 3 got a name with the word Godmode in it: “Godmode (2), Godmode.mkv & Godmode.txt” respectively. Has this happened with anyone else?
When I did this, it made the icon and everytime i click on it, it says windows explorer not responding then it restarts then seconds later it does it again, non stop forever. I cant open any pages that involve the explorer or it says not responding then closes
You can change God Mode to anything. The important thing is the dot and everything in the brackets.
This is also not an easter egg, but a feature. Microsoft will not include easter eggs in their products as a part of the Trustworthy Computing initiative.
Features are documented, easter eggs are not. Is there a reference for the documentation on this feature?
At least the concept is documented: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc144096(VS.85).aspx
@Scott
That happened to me, also, and I started freaking out until I did system restore (just for safety) and had my dad rename the file and delete it in Safe Mode (w/ Command Prompt), it took a while, but I was able to salvage my Desktop.