« previous next »
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Windows Settings Folder  (Read 1060 times)

Ben

  • Administrator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46,226
  • I'm an Extremist!
Windows Settings Folder
« on: August 15, 2015, 09:56:36 AM »
I like to read Kim Komando's Q&A on Saturday mornings. This morning I saw something I'd never heard of before: A folder that puts all your settings in one place. I have not tried creating it yet. I was wondering if any of you have heard of it before or use it.


Quote
Q. In Windows 7, I was able to create a folder that gave me access to every Windows setting in one place. Is there anything like that in Windows 10?

A. The same trick that worked in Windows 7 and 8 works in Windows 10 as well. Sign in with an administrator account and then create a new folder on your desktop with this name "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" (without the quotes). Click on the folder icon to start customizing Windows however you want, including changing font sizes, choosing the options in toolbars and more. Did you like that Windows 10 secret? Here are five more you don't want to miss.
Report to moderator   Logged
"I'm a foolish old man that has been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop."

cordex

  • Administrator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8,679
Re: Windows Settings Folder
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2015, 10:07:15 AM »
Quote from: Ben on August 15, 2015, 09:56:36 AM
I like to read Kim Komando's Q&A on Saturday mornings. This morning I saw something I'd never heard of before: A folder that puts all your settings in one place. I have not tried creating it yet. I was wondering if any of you have heard of it before or use it.


I have used it in 7.
Report to moderator   Logged

Ben

  • Administrator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46,226
  • I'm an Extremist!
Re: Windows Settings Folder
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2015, 10:19:46 AM »
Quote from: cordex on August 15, 2015, 10:07:15 AM
I have used it in 7.

What does it do, exactly?
Report to moderator   Logged
"I'm a foolish old man that has been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop."

Boomhauer

  • Former Moderator, fired for embezzlement and abuse of power
  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 14,356
Re: Windows Settings Folder
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2015, 11:59:32 AM »
It throws up a folder with the name of Godmode and lets you change all kinds of settings

Try it out I just did

Pretty cool



Report to moderator   Logged
Quote from: Ben
Holy hell. It's like giving a loaded gun to a chimpanzee...

Quote from: bluestarlizzard
the last thing you need is rabies. You're already angry enough as it is.

OTOH, there wouldn't be a tweeker left in Georgia...

Quote from: Balog
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! AND THROW SOME STEAK ON THE GRILL!

cordex

  • Administrator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8,679
Re: Windows Settings Folder
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2015, 12:20:18 PM »
Yeah, gives centralized access to some settings you otherwise have to dig for. If you already know where to go to change particular settings it doesn't help all that much, unless you are changing a lot of things in a go.
Report to moderator   Logged

Perd Hapley

  • Superstar of the Internet
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 61,481
  • My prepositions are on/in
Re: Windows Settings Folder
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2015, 12:54:34 PM »
I used to set up the God-mode folder on my 7 installs, but I never used it. I guess it might come in handy for a new OS, where you don't know where to find settings otherwise.
Report to moderator   Logged
"Doggies are angel babies!" -- my wife

Scout26

  • I'm a leaf on the wind.
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 25,997
  • I spent a week in that town one night....
Re: Windows Settings Folder
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2015, 05:17:03 PM »
What are the other five I don't want to miss?
Report to moderator   Logged
Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.


Bring me my Broadsword and a clear understanding.
Get up to the roundhouse on the cliff-top standing.
Take women and children and bed them down.
Bless with a hard heart those that stand with me.
Bless the women and children who firm our hands.
Put our backs to the north wind.
Hold fast by the river.
Sweet memories to drive us on,
for the motherland.

bedlamite

  • Hold my beer and watch this!
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9,807
  • Ack! PLBTTPHBT!
Re: Windows Settings Folder
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2015, 09:01:48 PM »
Report to moderator   Logged
A plan is just a list of things that doesn't happen.
Is defenestration possible through the overton window?

GigaBuist

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 4,345
    • http://www.justinbuist.org/blog/
Re: Windows Settings Folder
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2015, 10:42:16 PM »
Quote from: Ben on August 15, 2015, 10:19:46 AM
What does it do, exactly?

Something similar to what PowerToys did for XP.  I had forgotten about all of that.
Report to moderator   Logged
Pages: [1]
« previous next »