18 Responses to “Windows 7 has lots of ‘GodModes’”

  1. Anonymous Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    Windows 95 allready had similar special folder meanings.
    For example to get the (now standard) unfolding controlpanel, in stead of a new window when selecting it, you made one of these special folders: Name.CLSID

    All those special texts mentioned here can be found in the registry

  2. Ryuy Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 12:28 pm

    And what exactly do these commands do?

  3. Jon Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 12:46 pm

    All of these appear to work for except these two:
    {1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
    {62D8ED13-C9D0-4CE8-A914-47DD628FB1B0}

    I’m using 64 bit Windows 7

  4. Brad Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 1:00 pm

    Default Location.{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
    Biometrics.{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
    Power Settings.{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
    Notification Area.{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
    Manage Credentials.{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
    Get New Programs.{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
    Default Programs.{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
    NET Framework Assemblies.{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
    Wireless Networks.{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
    Network Neighborhood.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
    My Computer.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
    Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
    RemoteApp and Desktop.{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
    Windows Firewall.{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
    Performance.{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}

  5. Jeff Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 1:04 pm

    Thanks Brad for adding the folder functions!

  6. Fred Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 1:07 pm

    This isn’t new news. None of this is hidden, it’s all documented. For the full list try here

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee330741(VS.85).aspx

    Oh, and nice job copying cnet’s article.

  7. Nostrilsoup Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 1:35 pm

    Funnily enough, slashdot linked here instead of to cnet! Ed MUST BE cool.

  8. mrjub. Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 1:45 pm

    Fuck. I just added the last string on Vista, and now my computer is stuck in like an infinate loop consititing of explorer.exe (taskbar, folders) flashing repeatedly. I can’t open anything, and I cant close explorer. Also, the moment I added the godmode folder it disappeared. -_-. any ideas anyone?

  9. tsalaroth Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    Check out some of his earlier posts, like the one about the robot floor cleaner. He actually links to the CNET article he copy-and-pasted from. At least this time he didn’t copy and paste every paragraph - he skipped a couple.

    Aviran, I used to respect your site, now I’m not so sure. Maybe if you came clean instead of denying and getting angry, that may change.

  10. Helper Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 2:39 pm

    To get rid of the infinate crash loop in Vista pres ctrl-shift-esc to bring up the task manager. File->Run->cmd. cd\users\[name]\desktop Then rmdir “text.[press tab][press enter]

  11. Brian Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    If you look at Aviran’s website, all of his articles are like this. It is a site like slashdot except he copies and pasts the articles instead of paraphrasing them. Also, they all do contain a link to their source somewhere in the article.

  12. Brian Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    Those intrigued by the “GodMode” in Windows 7 may be interested to know that there are many other similar shortcuts hidden within the operating system.

    The words “many other similar shortcuts” Link to the source, in the source document the words “”GodMode” in Windows 7″ link to another document on CNet. If you are going to retort get your facts strait.

  13. Brian Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    Straight* Sorry

  14. Thumbs Up! Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 4:45 pm

    How is this different than many sites that regurgitate news stories? If you look the link to the original is clearly in the posting.

  15. Brisbane Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 5:24 pm

    Know what would be a handy addition to this article? A brief description of each string. Call me weird, but I’m not sure I want to make a bunch of folders just to find out what they actually do…
    Thanks.

  16. Kitsune Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 6:29 pm

    mrjub, I made the same foolish mistake, and I did it right on my desktop. I tried restarting normally, restarting safe mode, logging in as another user and deleting it through command prompt, nothing would work. I gave up and just deleted the entire “Desktop” folder under the username.

  17. A daredevil Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 6:57 pm

    Just for your information, I did try it on Vista and promptly crashed the machine. Yup.

  18. Chris Says:
    January 8th, 2010 at 12:56 am

    Here are instructions to remove GodMode from Vista 64bit.

    http://chrisbarba.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/how-to-remove-…om-vista-64bit/

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I dont think zenoss is mature (or stable is maybe a better word) enough for the moment, there are other similar bugs.

 

Using 2.5.1 I recently changed interface descriptions on my network devices. After a "model device" (to pickup changes) in zenoss I can see the new interface names - but nothing gets graphed.

 

There is also a mismatch of which snmp version is being used during the modeling (which might be your case). What I have to do is to select snmp v1 for the device, do the modeling, and then switch back to snmp v2c for the regular graphing (that was before I found the above bug :-)

 

You can also try to debug using snmpwalk just to ruleout that there is no other problem with your setup (firewall/routing):

 

snmpwalk -Os -c public -v 2c x.x.x.x 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.7

 

exchange "public" into the communityname you are using and exchange x.x.x.x into the ipaddress of the device. The above should bring you something like this in return:

 

ifHCInUcastPkts.1 = Counter64: 967049ifHCInUcastPkts.2 = Counter64: 0ifHCInUcastPkts.3 = Counter64: 0ifHCInUcastPkts.4 = Counter64: 1922931<snip>

ifHCInUcastPkts.49 = Counter64: 261124286ifHCInUcastPkts.50 = Counter64: 282003ifHCInUcastPkts.51 = Counter64: 0ifHCInUcastPkts.52 = Counter64: 0ifHCInUcastPkts.53 = Counter64: 0ifHCInUcastPkts.54 = Counter64: 0

 

depending on how many interfaces your equipment believe it have.

 

I have also found that 2.5.1 is somewhat slow in the gui (tried all sort of tricks found in the forum but none seems to do any large improvement).

 

 

Edit:

 

Im using ubuntu-server 9.10 on atom 330 with 2GB ram and 2TB disk.

 

The change interface description was on the units then I did the remodeling so zenoss would pickup changes.

 

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