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Windows 7 ‘god mode’ ..
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My Favourite Utilities

Speedfan is a great hardware monitor which can automatically control fan speeds, warn when temperatures are rising in the case, and do a SMART scan of your hard drives. A 'must have'.. http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php 

Piriform Speccy tells you what is inside the box and with great accuracy.. http://www.piriform.com/speccy

Networx shows download/upload bandwidth used.. http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/

Piriform Recuva is probably the best file recovery utility around and is free too.. http://www.piriform.com/recuva 

Treesize shows you what you have got, where it is, and how much space it is all using.. http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

Windows 8 alternative start menus.. Classic Shell.. http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

Stardock Start8.. http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/

EaseUS Partition Manager is the best free utility of its type..   http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm

YoWindow, a weather utility which appears to work with the Windows 8 desktop.. http://yowindow.com/

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If extended lists scare you, don’t do this. I now have a ‘god mode’ window containing two hundred and sixty nine functions. Fortunately, they are split up into forty five categories..

A quick recap

269 functions spread across 45 categories

OK, this is how you do it.

  1. Double click on ‘Computer’
  2. Create a new folder and give it this name (copy it from here and paste the name in)

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

A split second after the folder creation and paste operation, you will get an icon which looks just like the regular ‘Control Panel’, except for the fact that this one has had a steroid injection..

If you have a ‘user pinned’ section on your task bar, the new icon can be dragged to it, or you can place it wherever is most convenient..

NB. There are rumours that 64-bit IE8 crashes if you open the folder icon.. If you have any problems with it, it can always be deleted as fast as it was created..


Posted Wed, Jan 6 2010 11:13 by Mike Hall

Comments

Robert wrote re: Windows 7 ‘god mode’ ..
on Wed, Jan 6 2010 10:42

The folder name doesn't need to have "godmode" in it - it just has to end with the guid.  So foo.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} works as well.

Shawn wrote re: Windows 7 ‘god mode’ ..
on Thu, Jan 14 2010 21:18

This seems like just a list of verb strings.  For example, under 'Fonts' group there are 3 tasks: but all do the exact same thing (open the Font folder).  Yikes!

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