How to Enable God Mode in Windows: CLI, PowerShell & GUI

GodMode is a special folder in Windows that gives you quick access to over important tools needed to administer your computer. Its been around since the days of Windows 7. In this article, we shall discuss how to enable God Mode via PowerShell or the CLI and GUI. Please see How to remove WDS role via the GUI and PowerShell, how to SSH into a VM created using Azure CLI or GUI, and How to uninstall AWS CLI in Windows.

It is a dedicated folder that puts all of your settings in one place, where you’ll be able to do everything from adding clocks for different time zones to defragmenting your drives

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Cconfigure GodMode

Below are the steps to configure GodMode. Right clcik on the desktop and create a new folder

Enter the name as shown below to rename the folder

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Press enter. This is all the configuzation needed in order to have GodMode running on your PC

A graphical user interface element displaying a blue dashboard with a pie chart and data controls on a textured dark background.

Double Click to open the GodMode Application. It currently contains 205 tools and settings to administer your Windows Machine.

Screenshot of a Windows File Explorer window displaying the Administrative Tools section with options for managing system settings and tasks.

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Via the Command Prompt

Create a New Folder, and launch the CMD and navigate to the path or open the newly created folder and type cmd as shown below.

Search bar in File Explorer showing 'cmd' as the search query.

This will open a command line interface to the path where the folder was created and rename

ren "God Mode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" New folder

Command prompt window displaying the Microsoft Windows version and the file path to a folder on the desktop.

Via PowerShell

Ensure you run it with administrative privilege.

			
#Requires -RunAsAdministrator
$godmodeSplat = @{
Path = "$env:USERPROFILEDesktop"
Name = "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}"
ItemType = 'Directory'
}
New-Item @godmodeSplat

		