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+ | ====== The "God Mode" Easter Egg ====== | ||
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+ | A few days into the new year, word arrived about an interesting and newly-discovered Easter Egg in Windows 7 and 32-bit Vista that folks have named the "God Mode console" | ||
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+ | More accurately, however, GMC is simply an Explorer window containing a single all-in-one-place listing of all control panel pages. Even that, however, can be quite useful, as you can see from this screen shot. | ||
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+ | In this picture, you can see a couple of things about the GMC. First of all, is just a folder (albeit a special one, as we'll see), viewed with Explorer. Here, I've arranged the window so that the portion you can see -- there are zillions of Control Panel settings, so there' | ||
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+ | So how to get a GMC of your own? Simple. | ||
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+ | First, create a new folder. You can do it anywhere on your computer -- any drive, second-level folders, you name it. | ||
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+ | Second, name it _anything_.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} where _anything// | ||
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+ | Now open up the folder, and _voila_, you've got a GMC. But that's not all that you can do with it; I was sort of surprised to find that | ||
+ | ***Deleting it can be a problem**. In some experiments, | ||
+ | ***You can do it on either an NTFS or FAT32 drive**. | ||
+ | ***You can put it on a removable drive and carry it around**. Whether on a CF card, a USB stick, or an SDHC card, a GMC folder works like a charm when plugged into a compatible computer. | ||
+ | ***It responds to different views**. It comes up in Details view by default, but others work as well. Try out List view, it's more concise. | ||
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+ | Finally, which operating systems support a GMC? I've made it work on | ||
+ | * Windows 7 x64 | ||
+ | * Windows 7 x86 | ||
+ | * Vista x86 | ||
+ | * Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition | ||
+ | * Windows Server 2008 x86 | ||
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+ | It has _not_, however, worked on 64-bit Vista; trying to open an Explorer that contains one of the GMC folders causes Explorer to crash. If that happens to you, just open up an elevated command prompt and type | ||
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+ | rd /s /q | ||
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+ | And then press " | ||
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+ | I hope I've offered a bit of insight and a few ideas on using what might better be called the " | ||
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+ | -- Main.FredPettis - 2010-10-22 | ||
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