Windows 7 God Mode: Pinning in 3 Places

In a recent post, we found out about Windows 7's 'God Mode' feature which basically was just all Control Panel 'quick access' options put into 1 main place. Now to put the God Mode options in 3 accessible places.


The Taskbar. To put the said option onto the Taskbar, just follow these steps:

1. Create a new desktop shortcut. Right click on the desktop and click New>Shortcut.
2. It should open the 'Create Shortcut' wizard and then type or copy the following string inside the box: explorer shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
3. Just follow the wizard and depending to your liking, give it a 'God Mode' name for the new shortcut.
4. You can definitely change the icon by using the properties window. Choose change icon and follow the prompts. Other than that you're good to go.
5. Last is pinning the shortcut to the Taskbar. Simply drag and drop the shortcut to the taskbar or right clicking on the icon and choosing the 'Pin to Taskbar' option and that should be it.

Alternatively you can use this download LINK if you don't want to do it manually.

My Computer Context Menu. Now to give you the steps on how to put the extra menu into the My Computer right click menu:

1. Open regedit by typing it on the Windows start search box.
2. Now navigate to: 
         HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
3. Now to create a new key under the Shell key. Right click on shell and select NEW>KEY. You can give it a name, probably God Mode so as not to confuse ourselves.
4. On the right side pane, change the value of [Default] to the desired name you want displayed when you open the context menu.
5. Create a new key under the God Mode key done earlier (step 3) and name it command.
6. On the right side pane, change the value of (Default) to:

                        explorer shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} 

7. To set an icon, simply click on the God Mode key which was created on step 3 and on the right side pane, create a new String value 'icon'. You can set your own value onto the string. For the control panel icon, control.exe should be enough.

To make things easier, you can download this file, extract the content and run the REG file.

The Desktop Context Menu. Last place on the list is the desktop right click menu.

1. Open regedit using the start search box to open the Registry Editor.


2. Navigate to: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell

3. Almost the same process as the My Computer location except for the registry location of the options. We create a new key under the Shell key. Name it God Mode if you like.


4. On the right side pane, change the value of (Default) to the desired name you want to show when you open the Desktop Context menu.

5. Under the Shell Key, we should have the GodMode/God Mode (whichever name you assigned it) key and then we create a new key which we will name as command.

6. On the right side pane, change the value of (Default) to:
                            explorer shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

7. To change the icon and position, add Icon and Position as string values under the Key made on step 3 (God Mode). Icon was set to control.exe and for the position, use either 'Top' or 'Bottom'.


And of course to make the complicated easy with a few mouse clicks, just download the registry file here. extract and run the REG file.


here is an image of how the new keys are set up inside the registry:

 more information from ASKVG.