Essential Windows 7 Tweaks: Part 2

God Mode is one of those things that some people may glance over and some people will spend a weak toying with. There is a lot in there, and some of it will give you greater control over the things you wish you had more control over.

10. Enable GOD Mode: Super Control Panel!

This is a neat one. Enabling God Mode gives you a TON of controls at your finger tips.

1. Create a new folder.
2. Rename the folder to GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Action Center

• Change Customer Experience Improvement Program settings
• Change User Account Control setting
• Check security status
• Choose how to check for solutions
• Choose how to report problems
• Fix problems with your computer
• Restore your computer to an earlier time
• Review your computer’s status and resolve issues
• View all problem reports
• View messages about your computer
• View recommended actions to keep Windows running smoothly
• View reliability history
• View solutions to problems
• View the Microsoft error reporting privacy statement online

Administrative Tools

• Create and format hard disk partitions
• Defragment your hard drive
• Diagnose your computer’s memory problems
• Edit group policy
• How to add new hardware
• Schedule tasks
• Set up data sources (ODBC)
• Set up iSCSI initiator
• View event logs
• View local services

AutoPlay

• Change default settings for media or devices
• Play CD’s or other media automatically
• Start ot stop using autoplay for all media and devices

Backup and Restore

• Back up your computer
• Restore data, files, or computer from backup

Color Management

• Change advanced color management settings for display, scanners, and printers

Credential Manager

• Manage Windows credential

Date and Time

• Add clocks for different time zones
• Automatically adjust for daylight saving time
• Change the time zone
• Set the time and date

Default Program

• Make a file type always open in a specific program
• Set your default programs

Desktop Gadgets

• Add gadgets to the desktop
• Add the Clock gadget to the desktop
• Get more gadgets online Restore desktop gadgets installed with Windows
• Uninstall a gadget
• View list of running gadgets

Device Manager

• Update device drivers

Devices and Printers

• Add a device
• Add a printer
• Change default printer
• Change device installation settings
• Device Manager
• Scan a document or picture
• Set up USB game controllers
• View devices and printers
• View scanners and cameras

Display

• Adjust ClearType text
• Adjust screen resolution
• Calibrate display color
• Change display settings
• Change screen orientation
• Connect to a projector
• Connect to an external display
• How to correct monitor flicker (refresh rate)
• Make text and other items larger or smaller
• Set up computer to use multiple monitors
• View the name of the video card

Ease of Access Center

• Accomodate learning abilities
• Accomodate low vision
• Change how your keyboard works
• Change how your mouse works
• Change the Narrator voice
• Control the computer without the mouse or keyboard
• Hear a tone when keys are pressed
• Hear text read aloud with Narrator
• Ignore repeated keystrokes using FilterKeys
• Let Windows suggest Ease of Access settings
• Magnify portions of the screen using Magnifier
• Move the pointer with the keypad using MouseKeys
• Optimize for blindness
• Optimize visual display
• Press key combinations one at a time
• Replace sounds with visual cues
• Turn High Contrast on or off
• Turn Magnifier on or off
• Turn off automatic window arrangement
• Turn off background images
• Turn off unnecessary animations
• Turn on easy access keys
• Turn On-Screen keyboard on or off
• Use audio description for video
• Use screen reader
• View current accessibility settings

Folder Options

• Change search options for files and folders
• Change the file type associated with a file extension
• Show hidden files and folders
• Show or hide file extensions
• Specify single- or double-click to open

Fonts

• Change Font Settings
• Preview, delete, or show and hide fonts
• View installed fonts

Getting Started

• Find out what’s new in Windows 7
• Go online to find out what’s new in Windows 7
• Go online to get Windows Live Essentials
• Transfer files from another computer

HomeGroup

• Choose homegroup and sharing options
• Share printers

Indexing Options

• Change how WIndows searches

Internet Options

• Block or allows third-party cookies
• Change security settings
• Change temporary Internet file settings
• Configure proxy server
• Delete cookies or temporary files
• Enable or disable session cookies

Keyboard

• Change cursor blink rate
• Check keyboard status

Location and Other Sensors

• Enable location and other sensors
• Enter a default location
• View location activity

Mouse

• Change how the mouse pointer looks
• Change how the mouse pointer looks when it’s moving
• Change mouse click settings
• Change mouse settings
• Change mouse wheel settings
• Change the mouse pointer display or speed
• Customize the mouse buttons
• Make it easier to see the mouse pointer

Network and Sharing Center

• Add a wireless device to the network
• Change People Near Me settings
• Connect to a network
• Identify and repaid network problems
• Manage advanced sharing settings
• Manage saved networks
• Manage wireless networks
• Media streaming options
• Set up a connection or network
• Set up a dial-up connection
• Set up a virtual private network (VPS) connection
• Set up an ad hoc (computer-to-computer) network
• Sign in or out of People NEar Me
• View network computers and devices
• View network connections
• View network status and tasks

Notification Area Icons

• Customize icons on the taskbar
• Remove icons from notification area (system tray) on the desktop
• SHow or hide clock icon on the taskbar
• Show or hide inactive icons on the taskbar
• Show or hide the notification area on the taskbar
• Show or hide volume (speaker) icon on the taskbar

Parental Controls

• Set up parental controls for any user

Performance Information and Tools

• Check the WIndows Experience Index
• Free up disk space by deleting unnecessary files
• Learn how to use your storage device to speed up your computer
• Use tools to improve performance

Personalization

• Change desktop background
• Change screen saver
• Change the theme
• Change window colors and metrics
• CHange windows glass colors
• Enable or disable transparent glass on windows
• Get more themes online
• Lock the computer when I leave it alone for a period of time
• Personalize your computer
• Set screen saver password
• Show or hide common icons on the desktop
• Turn screen saver on or off

Phone and Mode

• Set up dialing rules

Power Options

• Change power-saving settings
• Change what the power buttons do
• Change when the computer sleeps
• Choose a power plan
• Choose when to turn off display
• Edit power plan
• Require a password when the computer wakes

Programs and Features

• Add or remove programs
• Change or remove a program
• How to install a program
• Run programs made for previous versions of Windows
• Show which programs are installed on your computer
• Turn Windows features on or off
• Uninstall a program
• View installed updates

Recovery

• Restore your computer or reinstall Windows

Region and Language

• Change display language
• Change keyboards or other input methods
• Change location
• Change the date, time , or number format
• Change the languages used for partially translated menus and dialogs
• Change the way currency is displayed
• Change the way dates and lists are displayed
• Change the way measurements are displayed
• Change the way time is displayed
• Install or uninstall display languages

RemoteApp and Desktop Connections

• Set up a new connection with RemoteApp and Desktop Connections

Sound

• Adjust system volume
• Change sound card settings
• Change system sounds
• Manage audio devices

Speech Recognition

• Change text to speech settings
• Set up a microphone
• Start speech recognition

Sync Center

• Encrypt your offline files
• Manage disk space used by your offline files
• Manage offline files
• Resolve sync conflicts
• Sync with other computers, mobile devices or network folders
• View sync results

System

• Activate Windows
• Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows
• Allow remote access to your computer
• Allow Remote Assistance invitations to be sent from this computer
• Change workgroup name
• Check processor speed
• Configure advanced user profile properties
• Create a restore point
• Device Manager
• Edit environment variables for your account
• Edit the system environment variables
• How to change the size of virtual memory
• Join a domain
• Rename this computer
• Restore system files and settings from a restore point
• See the name of this computer
• Select users who can use remote desktop
• Show how much RAM is on this computer
• Show which operating system your computer is running
• Show which workgroup this computer is on
• View advanced system settings
• View running processes with Task Manager

Taskbar and Start Menu

• Auto-hide the taskbar
• Customize the Start menu
• Customize the taskbar
• Find missing Start menu
• Group similar windows on the taskbar
• Lock or unlock the taskbar
• Organize Start menu
• Restore Start menu defaults
• Turn toolbars on the taskbar on or off
• What happened to the Quick Launch toolbar?

Troubleshooting

• Find and fix audio playback problems
• Find and fix audio recording problems
• Find and fix networking and connections problems
• Find and fix printing problems
• Find and fix problems
• Find and fix problems with devices
• Find and fix problems with homegroup
• FInd and fix problems with transparency and other visual effects
• Find and fix problems with Windows Search
• Perform recommended maintenance tasks automatically
• Record steps to reproduce a problem
• Troubleshooting History

User Accounts

• Add or remove user accounts
• Change your account picture
• Change your Windows password
• Create a password reset disk
• Create administrator account
• Create an account
• Create or remove account password
• Create standard user account
• Link online IDs
• Make changes to accounts
• Manage file encryption certificates
• Manage network passwords
• Turn guest account on or off

Windows CardSpace

• Manage Information Card that are used to log on to online services

Windows Defender

• Scan for spyware and other potentially unwanted software

Windows Firewall

Desktop Gadgets

• Add gadgets to the desktop
• Add the Clock gadget to the desktop
• Get more gadgets online Restore desktop gadgets installed with Windows
• Uninstall a gadget
• View list of running gadgets

Device Manager

• Update device drivers