Windows God Mode for Windows 7 and Vista

One of the things you've probably noticed about computer software is how designers like to change things around in new releases. Having begun my computer career with Windows 2000, XP was somewhat of a culture shock to me. Fortunately, the engineers were smart enough to include the Windows Classic theme which gives XP the user interface people like me had become used to. Unfortunately, in Windows 7, this feature was excluded.

For the average user or anyone who has been using Windows Vista over the last few years, this might not be a big deal. For XP users that skipped Vista, this can be a big problem, as many of the features they have become accustomed to have been renamed and/or moved to different places. Thankfully, Microsoft included a nice search engine with the OS which can be a big help in finding things.

Don’t like having to use a search engine to customize your computer settings? Try using Windows God Mode.

Windows God Mode is basically a hack that allows you to create a control console that has pretty much every setting imaginable for Windows 7 and Vista.

Accessing God Mode is a simple three-step process that involves creating and renaming a folder:

1. For simplicity, I like to create this folder on the C: drive. Open My Computer and double-click on the C: drive. This will show you the contents of the hard drive.

2. Right-click in the white space of the window and select the option new folder.

3. Right-click the folder you created and rename it to the following, EXACTLY as it appears here:

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

It’s that simple.

Open the folder and you’ll see a window similar to this:


Now you'll be able to customize your systems settings from one place.