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Thanks for the interesting info. When I finally, get around to upgrading to Windows 7 I'll have to give it a try.

How long before someone posts about that "other" OS?

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"How long before someone posts about that "other" OS?"

You mean "Vista"? AKA "The OS with  G o d d a m n  Mode built-in"?

Ok. Alot of this looks like pointers to interfaces that are exposed in different parts of the OS. I guess the question is, is there anything here that has not already been exposed?  Is there anyting new here?

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What I found interesting is that MS would title something "God Mode".

So, instead of having GodMode. I put in "stupid." and the folder showed up the same way.

The God Mode aspect of this is nothing but an invention and not something MS programmed into Win7.  It looks like the hex code is what is important.

as paul thurrott would say, "Nothing new here." been using all tasks for at least 8 months now. found it during the beta.

Seems that here are all the configurable options on W7, but it doesn't need to named GodMode, you can name as you want, just keep the extension, mine is SuperCP.

I'm runnig both W7 64 & 32 bit oses and in my 64b install the explorer crash if I scroll to the end of the window with the scroll bar!

<Create a new folder (right-click and click on “New Folder”). Right-click on the folder and click on rename, copy and paste this: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}>

Again, a Microsoft implementation of something that is so easy to use in that other OS.

Just type in 'sudo' in terminal and hence, God Mode. Or even SuperGod-Mode.

Not that you .dll-****s would understand a thing about it.

See Ed Bott's post about this:

www.edbott.com/weblog

Nothing new (was in Windows XP InsideOut); removed for Vista and Win 7 to make room for interesting stuff. Particularly since everything found using it can be found with searches in Start Menu search. Also searches in the search box in Control Panel.

Just a couple of clarifications on this for people who didn't read Ed Bott's article.

Calling it God Mode appears to be the idea of the person who wrote the original blog.  There's nothing inherently magic about that name.

Want to call in ThurrottMode?

Create a new folder and name it ThurrottMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C},

Want to name it Fred?

Create a new folder and name it Fred.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

All that's really going on is that you are passing the GUID of the Control Panel to a normal folder so that the Control Panel's objects are visible in the normal Windows Explorer pane rather than in the custom pane used by the Control Panel.

No magic except for an example of object oriented design allowing object and containers to be separate but still interact.

"Again, a Microsoft implementation of something that is so easy to use in that other OS.

Just type in 'sudo' in terminal and hence, God Mode. Or even SuperGod-Mode"

Wow, I didn't know you could aggregate all configurable options in OSX by typing "sudo" into the command prompt.  I thought that was a elevation command.

You can retract your snarky comment, if you would like.

"lotsamystuff said:

You mean "Vista"? AKA "The OS with  G o d d a m n  Mode built-in"?"

I"m fine with Vista, I'm running Vista Ultimate on both my home machines; and have been running it since the day it was launched. The reason I haven't upgraded to Win 7 yet, is that I haven't found any major issues with Vista, so I'm not in any hurry to do so (I use WIn 7 in VirtualBox). I will upgrade my laptop soon though; it's a multi-touch laptop and Windows 7 really shines in multi-touch (Vista multi-touch is no slouch though).

FWIW, I'm not a "casual" computer user; I'm a senior Windows programmer (most C++, C#, WPF, ASP.NET and Windows Mobile), and use my machines heavily.

I suspect that many of the people who complain about it, haven't used it since the original release, much less SP1 or greater.

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I saw this "news" break yesterday, and thought, OK, so what good does this do me?  And why call it God Mode?  It's no where near what one would expect.  It's just a different view of the control panel basically.  Move along folks, nothing at all to see here...

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"Calling it God Mode appears to be the idea of the person who wrote the original blog.  There's nothing inherently magic about that name."

But it's easier to criticize Microsoft with a name like "God Mode". :)

The name GodMode is a misnomer.  You can make it

Cool Control Panel.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C

Or

Control Panel Plus.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C

It does nothing more than expose direct links to existing functions in the control panel.   Someone is having fun at our expense because we are laughing their a$$ off with discussions like this one going on.

It would be nice if a few more people could point out what de Silentio did in the 4th non-trackback post in the thread. Of course, it took mikegalos 13 lines to day the same thing that most people can say in 2 or 3 lines. But he is the **official** Microsoft voice on Paul's websites, so he is much more important than the rest of you low lives.

--tayme

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Oh wow sudo I never knew gee thanks for pointing that out to us dll.sh**s.

Glad to see the usual suspects are operating in douche bag mode,  as usual.

"You mean "Vista"? AKA "The OS with  G o d d a m n  Mode built-in"?"

Unlike Mac OS X which has "G o d d a m m i t ! I ' m g o i n g b a c k t o W i n d o w s  Mode".

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I just finished playing with Goa'uld Mode and it's a pretty handy list, of things but nothing new, my eyes did get that cool glow though

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Dr. Jackson,

This is indeed a False God mode much like the Goa'uld.

FYI: To clarify Tayme's statement, I am not now nor have I ever been "the **official** Microsoft " anything on this blog comment area.

In fact, despite my having a current connection to Microsoft Research, I have not been an "official" Microsoft spokesperson on anything since 2001.

Tayme, of course, knows that.

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@roteauge

You made a good point, there is nothing inherently wrong with Vista, its solid and runs fine. Unfortunately there are a lot of people out there who would prefer to read bulls**t in the bloated blogoshpere than actually check the thing out for themselves.

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Cheer up you lot, no?

I set the folder up on the XP rig I was working on, threw it into my mesh folder and when I got home opened it up in Win 7 to find this reconfigured control type panel. I found this strangely pleasing.

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Backup, in addition to the BS, there are more stories from ppl with a bad experience telling their story, when the bad experience was self inflicted. One of the doctors in my practice was told by the IT guy that WIn 7 64 bit could be be configured for our VPN [uses PPTP]. Two us tried and had no problem at all! Word spread fast in our practice and was incorrect. The IT guy said that a 'software update must have corrected the problem'. Waethorn said get another IT guy. I think Wae was correct. Fear and panic was inappropriately created as most ppl knew that most computers seem to be 64 bit, at least the mid to higher end ones that we prefer, and they thought that they were screwed. Win 7 worked fine, and we had to use the 32 bit IE to get our PACS  [uses an outdated proprietary ActiveX control]. Worse case scenario, we were ready to try XP mode, as suggested by MIke G, Wae and Dipsh. There may be an after Christmas surge in PC sales in my area, since they are confident in using Win 7 with our system.

Also, I followed Waethorn's suggestion to get the vendors and MAKE them support it, otherwise we won't buy their product...and we usually spend in the 6 figure range, so they would lose a good sale.

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My post was supposed to say that the doctor was told that 64 bit could NOT be configured [which obviously was NOT true]. Sorry for the confusing typo.

God Mode = with this enabled Windows 7 file copy speeds are almost as fast as Windows XP.

social.technet.microsoft.com/.../8f69acf6-711d-4aa0-8c22-04eba060b9de

social.technet.microsoft.com/.../8f69acf6-711d-4aa0-8c22-04eba060b9de

serverfault.com/.../slow-network-file-copy-on-windows-7

SSDD.....

"Both Vista and Windows 7 seemed to introduce random delays when deleting files. For example, about one in three times when deleting the files from our filesystem benchmark, this screen below would appear and do nothing for 25-30 seconds before suddenly springing into action and deleting the files. However, this wasn't part of our benchmark, so isn't included in the numbers above."

"I have xp on one machine and win 7 on another. I copied the same dvd on both, and it took 16 minutes on the win 7 machine. The xp machine took about 5 minutes..."

"Here's the microsoft answer, first blame 3rd parties and then try some useless activity like 'safe mode'

why don't they just admit copy and transfer speeds in Windows 7 are vastly inferior to Win XP?

social.answers.microsoft.com/.../f2b32bf0-bab6-4935-9002-8127d9ca066a"

Sound like Vista?  Does for me as I am seeing horrible copy speeds over a networks.  Its more random than Vista but when I get it I can only be reminded of Vista.  I also still get that deal where the current app turns white for 30 or seconds and then usually comes back to life...right before I am about to reset the PC.  We have see it on more than one machine.  Lets hope MS supports XP for a while.

@DRWAM unless you have a serious need for more than 4gigs of RAM, or have an application that runs way better as a 64bit app, sticking with 32 bit 7 is still the safer bet.  I have already seen some third party enterprise management applications FAIL to run on a Windows 7 64 machine (Symantec/NetApp).  In one case they would not even install and these were the latest versions.  

I have a friend that cant install some scanner software they got from Canon that came with a brand new scanner because his PC is 7 64bit.

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Thanks rr0de74, Wae said something similar. OUr guys just keep buying retail PC's, most of which are 64 bit, which seems to be the shipping OS for the we  more robust PC that we need for PACS, a memory hog. I'm using all 32 bit myself, and suggest the same to others. I'll pass on the info.

Thanks,

Doc

@rr0de74

Good post.

File copy speeds were terrible in Vista's early days, and were rectified with SP1. I agree that 32bit 7 is the best option for most people to avoid any 64bit software issues.

@DRWAM

People certainly don't help their cause by making wrong decisions when purchasing hardware, a small amount of research can go a long way towards avoiding dramas down the track.

Thanks for the tip, Paul.  Lots of great settings all in one spot.

@rrode,Doc, Backup:

Of any software that won't run in 64-bit, you should check with your vendor.  Anything that doesn't run in 64-bit isn't going to be even certified for Windows Vista.  That's bad news, and will probably end up with a lot of support headaches when it comes to system stability issues in Windows even when you run in the vendor's supported 32-bit environment.  The problem is not in the support of 32-bit, it's in the fact that the vendor isn't doing the proper work to get it certified on both platforms.  Those vendors should be avoided like the plague, but large vendors are usually pretty good about getting apps certified.

All in all, I recommend customers buy systems with 64-bit versions of Windows 7, because remember than XP Mode is always 32-bit.  What I say is that, if the software doesn't work in 64-bit natively by now, it probably runs like crap (or not at all) in Windows Vista/7 anyway, so either use the Compatibility Mode feature, or fall back to XP Mode, but still use 64-bit on the host to get all the benefits of speed and memory support.

For a cheap system with support for XP Mode, ignore Paul, and buy AMD.  AMD Vision notebooks are extremely cheap.  You can buy consumer systems, clean off the crapware, and load your corporate (or Anytime Upgrade version of) Windows 7 Pro 64-bit on em and still run XP Mode (make sure it has at least 3GB of RAM for 64-bit Win 7 + XP Mode).  It's a lot cheaper than buying those business systems with Centrino crap for well over $1000.  I look at Centrino/Core 2 Duo business systems and laugh, because they don't really give you anything special that you can't already get from an AMD Athlon II/Neo or Turion II/Neo system for 30-50% less money - and AMD offers hardware VT support across the board, unlike consumer Intel laptops, and every AMD system comes with much better video than Intel (they start with Radeon HD 3200 integrated, but you can often find the better 4200 chipsets or discrete video), so they make for decent HD video and gaming systems if you need a system for both work and play.  The GMA4500MHD is garbage.

@rrode:

$10 says those are Broadcom drivers.  Broadcom drivers have been bad for Vista too.  There have been updates to resolve that, but only recently.  Broadcom Gbe drivers cause issues with the new SMBv2 file transfer features between Vista/7 and Server 2008.  Other controllers don't have that problem.  Vista/7+Server 2008 is still faster than XP+2003 in 95% of cases, but it depends on your hardware [driver].

In Server 2008, there are some additional features for data resiliency during network file transfers that can be tuned for additional performance, like Receive-Side Scaling, TCP Chimney, and the like.  In some environments, they can also have detrimental effects.  For instance, in the SBS BPA, they recommend that you turn most of those features off for better performance, because SBS is designed to operate almost all services on a single box and it would be too much bandwidth required for a single NIC (which is all that SBS supports).  Those features are available in the new NDIS version that ships in Vista and Server 2008.  Apparently some controller manufacturers haven't adapted to them in a timely manner *cough cough*.  Under no circumstance do I recommend anyone remove IPv6 support in any business environment using Server 2008 though, especially not any for EBS or SBS, as they rely on it.

Thanks, I hear and obey.

Those that consult me before they buy a new computer usually have less problems [until they carelessly attempt to set up practically anything... on all OS'es]. It's funny how they buy an expensive car, then complain about spending more than a $1000 on a half decent computer... something that needs up to 4GB of RAM to view large image files.

@Doc:

I sell AMD systems with Athlon II quad-core's with 4GB of DDR3-RAM (upgradeable to 16 - but you have to take out the 2x2GB sticks and load it up with 4x4GB's, otherwise, you could leave the 2x2GB in and add 2x4GB for a total of 12GB) with Win 7 Pro 64-bit and XP Mode preloaded with a 3 year warranty for a lot less than $1000.

I will pass on the info Wae and let you know if we need you.

Thanks.

@Doc:

Not trying to toot my own horn here, but I'm just saying:  >$1000 is a bit much to pay on a system with just 4GB of RAM.  I'd expect it to be a high-spec system with 8GB for that kind of price.

I build systems with the following specs:

Athlon II AM3 quad-core

Antec NSK3480 case

ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO motherboard (includes 128MB "Sideport" dedicated RAM for onboard video)

4GB/8GB Kingston DDR3-1333 (2x2GB)

1x or 2x 500GB/1TB WD Green SATA drives

Optiarc SATA DVDRW or Blu-ray Read+DVDRW Combo

Radeon HD 4200 onboard video with VGA+DVI+HDMI(upgradeable with open PCIe 2.0 x16 slot)

Win 7 Home Prem 64-bit/Pro 64-bit/Ultimate 64-bit (with XP Mode preloaded on Pro/Ult)

Microsoft Signature PC software pack (for consumer PC's only - includes Zune, WinLive Essentials, Bing Maps 3D, Microsoft Security Essentials)

Office OEM trial

Adobe Reader and Flash

All program and OS updates

Up-to-date drivers

No other trialware

Basic Microsoft wired USB keyboard and mouse (options for wireless or wireless laser)

No monitor (22" Asus 16:9 with HDMI and 1080p for $179)

3 year warranty (cuz all parts have at least 3 year warranty anyway - so I just pass that along to the customer)

Baseline systems usually start at about $689CDN for the tower.  Not trying to use this as ad space or anything, just saying that it's very much doable for less than $1000.  Certainly, you could source out the parts and build it yourself for probably close to the same price give or take a bit either way (and by all means, go for it if you have the time and gusto), I'm just saying what I charge for that cuz I know my prices off the top of my head.  Retail component prices shouldn't vary much but we do offer full support for our systems so any difference is to cover those costs.

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