Sigh, everytime I hear about these sort of things it’s because some idiot out there has coined a phrase and it’s stuck like flies to shit.

It’s been reported recently that to access a “God mode” in windows 7/vista you create a folder with a tag name and an associated GUID. It works, however what you get out of it is so far from an actual functional “God mode” it’s laughable.

Basically by bunging a GUID into a folder you’re accessing the associated content within it, this time around the folder in question contains multi control panel items all in one place. Quite a lot in there, seems pretty useful to start with and may have it’s uses.

The string looks like this:

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

Note I’ve intentionally renamed “GodMode” to Name in this case as I take severe exception in copycatting this bullshit phrase that has caught on but some pathetic twat who evidently wanted to sensationalise what they’d found into making other’s think what they’ve found is actually special. In fact they’re actually just a complete cunt. Truth is you can put anything you want before the .{string} it’s just a place holder name for the folder, it’s the GUID that determines the content.

I’ve even caught videos on youtube of this wonderous “God mode” being demonstrated, as if anyone needs a fucking guide of how to type in a folder name and press enter. The major catch here though, there is nothing “God mode” about it when it comes to functional rights within the OS. If you create the folder under a normal user account you get to see various control panel applets and functionality as any administrator would.

Can you actually make use of them though?
Can you fuck.

If you don’t have the rights, you still can’t perform anything at all over and above what a normal user can. So people are making such a fuss over this why? I’ve seen a few articles that state Redmond haven’t issued a statement on this yet, as if hiding something such as a GUID away from public use for this “God mode” is something underhand, when looked at in reality, people who have written such articles deserve a spike through their fucking eyeball.

Oh you found a larger version of the control panel, well fucking done.