Ramblings from Microsoft’s Windows Touch SDK writer

Here’s an interesting hack that I ran into on Gizmodo via CNET.

By creating a new folder in Windows 7 and renaming it with a certain text string at the end, users are able to have a single place to do everything from changing the look of the mouse pointer to making a new hard-drive partition.
The trick is also said to work in Windows Vista, although some are warning that although it works fine in 32-bit versions of Vista, it can cause 64-bit versions of that operating system to crash.
To enter “GodMode,” one need only create a new folder and then rename the folder to the following:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

I’m not sure exactly how this works…  but it’s pretty darn cool.  A commenter on the CNET site pointed out that you can search this folder to quickly find all of the settings for a particular term (e.g. Display).  Also of note, it’s the extension (ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C) that causes the folder to function in the strange way it does so you can label the folder CPanel.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and it would work the same.