How to access about all configuration settings

[Frank1119]

When it comes to optimizing Windows, a lot of configuration settings needs to be changed. A nuisance with this is that Microsoft is moving a lot of these to different places in the GUI. I recently learned a trick to get a one-stop overview of (most of) all configuration settings, whether they are still in the configuration panel or in the settings app.

• Make a new folder in a location you want (for example on your desktop)
• Rename this folder to AllConfig.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} The part before the dot can be anything you like. The part with the curly braces is mandatory (including the dot and braces).

When you open this folder it looks like this:

Enjoy!

[Hermon]

I’ve been using it since 2015… I’d stumbled across it completely by accident! It is called God Mode.
It is indeed an excellent universal control panel.
I also suggest tools dedicated to recent OSes such as:
Ultimate Windows Tweaker
or Winaero Tweaker, which you’ll find linked in this @npudar article containing other useful tips and links:

FREE e-book by Deskew - Optimize your Windows PC for the stage!

Thanks for doing this! On a fast computer - you may not see a huge difference in the momentary measurements, but what this definitely helps with is a) Proofing against unexpected changes because of automatic updates etc… b) Helping with situations where you’re on stage and your Windows decided to “do something” and possibly hinder your performance Basically not only does this make things more stable, but it also provides a little bit less mutable environment which is always good when it com…

[Frank1119]

@Hermon

’d stumbled across it completely by accident! It is called God Mode

I’m using Windows for the last 44 years, low level and high level, and I just came across this. One is never too old to learn something, I hope

At the site I picked it up they called it also ‘God Mode’, but I thought that was a bit overrated for a folder with shortcuts

Edit: 10 years off: 34 years. (Somewhere around 1990)

[npudar]

@Frank1119

I recently learned a trick to get a one-stop overview of (most of) all configuration settings,

Wow, first time you stumble upon that trick
When I first read about it (it must’ve been more than 10 years ago), it was referred to as ‘God mode’.

[Frank1119]

@npudar

Wow, first time you stumble upon that trick

I guess I know a few things of Windows most people never come across and hopefully will never need to

[npudar]

I agree!

That is why I thought it was impossible!

[Frank1119]

@npudar

That is why I thought it was impossible!

These things happen so that I stay humble

[dhj]

Ha ha ha

[tripleB]

@Frank1119

I’m using Windows for the last 44 years, low level and high level, and I just came across this. One is never too old to learn something, I hope

So, you have been beta tester for Win 1.0, which was released in 1985?

But I can feel with you: using (sometimes fighting) Windows is a never ending story and makes you feel having it used longer, than it is on the market

BTW: I learnt from a Windows SW developer ~20 years ago, that there are at least x ways like native WIN32 C++, MFC, .COM, DocView etc.to solve any problem on windows - however, way x+1 would have been best choice

[Frank1119]

@tripleB

So, you have been beta tester for Win 1.0, which was released in 1985?

I getting old. Even my math is off. 34 years. Not 44

[npudar]

The very first Windows PC I used my own was based on Windows 95
I was hooked by Windows 3.11 and a PC my older friend had at a time.

I was a kid and had persuaded ( ) my mom to buy me books in English (I’m 1984).

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@Frank1119

I getting old.

One who created the Envelope Follower cannot be old!