Windows has tucked a surprisingly powerful administration shortcut behind a single folder name for more than a decade, and creating that folder — the community’s beloved God Mode — can replace many of the trips you make to Control Panel and the Settings app by surfacing an aggregated, searchable...
Windows 11 still buries a practical, time-saving shortcut for power users: the so-called God Mode folder — a simple shell trick that consolidates a sprawling array of Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and legacy settings into one searchable, categorized view. Creating a folder named...
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Windows 11 still feels like two operating systems glued together when you hunt for settings, and the old community trick known as God Mode remains the fastest practical way to make sense of the mess.
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Windows has been migrating decades of Control Panel functionality into the...
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Windows 11 hides a surprisingly practical productivity trick behind a single folder name: the so‑called God Mode folder — a Master Control Panel view that gathers hundreds of system settings and administrative tools into one browsable container and can dramatically speed up troubleshooting and...
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This happens with others where the result is the same but the containers are:
'{6BFB43B0-3A52-11EC-B8DA-00155D02B30B}'
'{7F84558C-5F7F-548E-9B12-DE35E0EFD7CA}'
'{90193291-A262-475F-9E39-8C79F25B7C9E}'
'{00000000-0000-0000-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF}'
This ONLY happens when remoting into the server.
I did a fresh install of Windows 10 on a new Samsung SSD drive several months ago. I have a second drive in my system which is my data drive. I've had no issues for several months. Yesterday I decided to replace my secondary drive with a bigger drive. When I powered up my computer I get a...
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On Windows desktops, if something went wrong, your first instinct for years may have been to open up the Event Viewer and see if anything red or yellow shows up. Those alerts are saved ETW events, emitted by the system when errors occurred. On other Windows devices though, it’s been a bit harder...
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I just got a new 3TB hard disk and I can't install Windows 7 64 bit on it.
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Describes a hotfix that enables the Association Cookie/GUID that is used by RPC over HTTP to also be used at the RPC layer in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2.
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I built a .NET application and I'm trying to register it as a dll on my new Windows 7 machine and use it from a JavaScript page.
I made sure I specified a GUID and I made it COM visible in the code. I registered it with "regasm MyAx.dll /codebase /tlb" and I received no error messages (in...
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i can only see 2mb of my 320Gig secondary drive. in he device manager it says GUID partition table.
I need the info on the rest of the drive.
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Ok, so since getting Vista I've had nothing but problems with connecting my desktop to the internet.
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