Tricks for Windows 7: “GodMode” and others

It is known that Microsoft, every time it launches new versions of its operating system, includes “tricks” that become known and popular with their use. Windows 7 couldn’t stay behind and has already revealed a series of tricks. Working on this line we find GodMode Creator, an application that allows us to count with a few Windows 7 tricks really quickly.

With all this new tricks, we’ll be able to access to multiple configuration options, most of them not included on the “standard” control panel. The method to activate the tricks is simple but pretty thorny: we create a folder with a name that includes a dot and a code and that’s it.

For example:

trick1.{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}

One of these alternatives allows you to access to all the options from one place that was named “GodMode”. To count with it, you’ll need to do the process that was detailed before, using the code {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} after the dot. GodMode will give us access to a “super control panel”, centralizing all the options on a single place.

Beyond the eye-catching fact of counting with multiple options that we didn’t know of, we’ll see also a series of configuration options that can result pointless because we don’t count with the appropriate devices to put them into practice, like the biometric device controller.

A good method to filter only the ones that interest us the most is to create ourselves the folders individually, with the codes, or we can use GodMode Creator. This simple application shows us the icons of the folders to be created with a descriptive title, and through a simple click it’ll create the folder on the desktop.

Whatever it is the method you choose, manually or with GodMode Creator, it is worth to try it and have fun with these new tricks.

Complete list of tricks to do it manually:

Biometric devices:

To be able to activate the trick that will let us configure biometric devices on Windows 7 we’ll need to create a folder with the following name:

Biometric devices.{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}

Default Location

We’ll activate the trick that will let us indicate our geographical creating a folder with the following name on Windows 7:

Default location.{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}

Location and Other Sensors

To be able to activate the trick that will let Windows 7 detect on which area of the world we are (through a GPS device or WWAN wireless network radios) and through this, adapt the sidebar configuration and provide us with outstanding information depending on where we are, we need to create a folder with the following name:

Location and other sensors.{E9950154-C418-419e-A90A-20C5287AE24B}

Notification Area Icons

Using this trick we’ll be able to indicate Windows 7 how we want it to act with the notifications of the different programs that we have installed. To activate it we create a folder with the following name:

Notification area icons.{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}

RemoteApp and Desktop Connections

By entering this code we’ll be able to create a shortcut from which we’ll configure connections to remote desktops and the use of applications on Windows 7. To create the trick we create a folder with this name:

Connections to applications and remote desktops.{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}

All .NET Frameworks and COM libraries

This trick will allow us to see all the .NET frameworks and COM libraries we have available on our Windows 7. To activate it, we create a folder with the following name:

See NET and COM libraries.{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}

System

By using this code we’ll be able to create an icon that allows us to access the Windows 7 System folder and that way see the content of our PC. To activate the trick, we need to create a folder with the following name:

System.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

Get Programs

With this trick for Windows 7 we’ll be able to quickly select and install programs from our network. To activate it we need to create a folder named:

Get programs.{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}

Troubleshooting

To generate an icon for the Windows 7 troubleshooting from which we’ll be able to access all of them at once, we need to create a folder with this name, activating the trick by doing it so:

Troubleshooting.{C58C4893-3BE0-4B45-ABB5-A63E4B8C8651}

Network (WorkGroup)

By using this trick we’ll be able to generate an icon from which we’ll be able to directly access to the exploration of our whole home group network place on Windows 7 from any place. We activate it creating a folder with the following name:

Network(Workgroup).{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}