{"id":1490,"date":"2012-10-31T08:31:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T08:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2012-10-31T08:32:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T08:32:36","slug":"how-to-enable-godmode-in-windows-8-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-enable-godmode-in-windows-8-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable GodMode in Windows 8\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GodMode is actually a hidden (or, at least it used to be hidden) developer shortcut in Windows 8\/7 that provides more direct access to features and functions of the operating system. To be clear, GodMode doesn&#8217;t add functionality. But it helps administrators work more efficiently by collecting all these tweaks and controls in one place.<\/p>\n<p>To access the special capabilities of the GodMode folder, create a new folder anywhere on your Windows 8\/7 computer and name it:<\/p>\n<p><code>GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Once renamed, the icon will change to a control panel looking icon, and when opened you will be presented with a plethora of different tweaking options.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1491\" title=\"godmode\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/godmode.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/godmode.png 441w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/godmode-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On my Windows 7 Professional machine, I was shown nearly 50 sections with quick links to configuration options. I find placing this GodMode icon in my desktop very helpful. Whenever I need to open options like network and sharing,printers etc, it makes it very easy to find all this icons placed inside one icon rather than going for the control panel.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GodMode is actually a hidden (or, at least it used to be hidden) developer shortcut in Windows 8\/7 that provides more direct access to features and functions of the operating system. To be clear, GodMode doesn&#8217;t add functionality. But it helps administrators work more efficiently by collecting all these tweaks and controls in one place. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,3,39],"tags":[663,662],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-god-mode","tag-godmode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}