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I was bored and decided to look at the GodMode shortcut. For those of you that don't know what that is I'll explain. It's basically a folder shortcut with a special CLSID extension. CLSID is short for Class ID. The godmode shortcut will display a lot of settings available in the Control panel, but they are all in a single window.
The only really important part of this is the .{GUID} the first part can be anything. It's certainly a nifty shortcut to have readily available but that isn't what I was curious about. I wanted to know if any of the other CLSID's had any useful functionality. I wrote this powershell script to build shortcuts out of ever CLSID that was available in the registry.
After running it you get a folder called Shortcuts on your desktop with a few thousand other folders inside. If you ran the script you can see that there are quite a few of these that will actually open various things including different sections of the Control Panel, the "This PC" shortcut and even the recycle bin.
The only really important part of this is the .{GUID} the first part can be anything. It's certainly a nifty shortcut to have readily available but that isn't what I was curious about. I wanted to know if any of the other CLSID's had any useful functionality. I wrote this powershell script to build shortcuts out of ever CLSID that was available in the registry.
Code:
$saved_directory = "$($env:USERPROFILE)\Desktop\Shortcuts"
New-PSDrive -Name HKCR -PSProvider Registry -Root HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
PWD | Push-Location
If (Test-Path $saved_directory)
{
Remove-Item -Path $saved_directory -Recurse -Force
} Else
{
New-Item -Path $saved_directory -ItemType Directory
}
Set-Location HKCR:
$keys = Get-ChildItem -Path .\CLSID
$index = 1
For($index; $index -le $keys.Count; $index++)
{
$keysplit = $keys[$index].Name.Split('\')
$CLSID = $keysplit[$keysplit.Count - 1]
$dir_name = "CLSID$index.$CLSID"
New-Item -Path "$saved_directory\$dir_name" -ItemType Directory
}
Pop-LocationAfter running it you get a folder called Shortcuts on your desktop with a few thousand other folders inside. If you ran the script you can see that there are quite a few of these that will actually open various things including different sections of the Control Panel, the "This PC" shortcut and even the recycle bin.