The interwebs were alight a couple of weeks ago with news of the ‘Windows Godmode’ shortcut.

Essentially, a GUID based shortcut which grouped various settings together in one area. One source of complaint for me has always been the ‘reorganization’ of many settings in Vista and 7.

I likened it to busy work where a developer moved settings into separate menus, where they used to be together in a single menu. Annoying and seemingly without reason but I’m sure some guy got to keep his job.

Someone at Microsoft thought the reaction of people was funny and released a bunch more GUIDs for everyone to play with. With that being said, I tried them all to see what they do. There have been reports of troubles, so you have been warned.

The format for trying this out is “name.{GUID}”. For example, the first one could be a folder named “Default Location.{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}” Don’t include the quotes when copying.

Here’s the list of strings which have been circulating around. Some are more interesting than others…

  • {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} – Godmode
  • {00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33} – Change your default location
  • {0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428} – Biometric devices
  • {025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D} – Select a power plan
  • {05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9} – Select which icons appear in the notification area
  • {1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70} – Store credentials for automatic login
  • {15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4} – Install a program from the network
  • {17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966} – Choose default Windows programs
  • {1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43} – Lists public key tokens (?)
  • {1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87} -Manage wireless networks
  • {208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D} – Network
  • {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} – Attached drive menu
  • {2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D} – Printer menu
  • {241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B} – Remote App and Desktop Connections
  • {4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423} – Firewall
  • {62D8ED13-C9D0-4CE8-A914-47DD628FB1B0} – I couldn’t get this one to work
  • {78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC} – Performance menu