Turn on Windows "God Mode" on Desktop

Windows 8 has countless settings you can hack, tweak, and customize. Many of them are accessible via the Control Panel and other scattered locations throughout Windows. It can be time-consuming to find them all, and the likelihood is that you’ll never remember where they all live. That means that many tweaks and hacks are far away, and some you’ll never even find.
There’s a simple solution: Use what some people call “God Mode.” Despite its name, it’s not really a separate mode. Instead, it’s a hidden folder that gives you fast access to all those settings. All you have to do is bring it out of hiding and place it on the Desktop.
To do it, right-click the Desktop and select New→Folder (Figure 3-10). Rename the folder GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}.

Creating a new folder on the desktop
The folder icon changes, and it has the name GodMode

The God Mode folder on the Desktop
Note: The “God.Mode” text isn’t what turns the folder into a special folder—it’s the {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}.You can use any text before the curly brackets you want. So if you wanted the folder to be called Fred.Folder, you could do that as well by renaming it like this: Fred.Folder{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}. It would show up as FredFolder on the Desktop, but still have the same features.
Double-click the icon, and you’ll come to a folder that has many dozens of tweaks, settings, and hacks . They’re organized by category, and you can expand or shrink each category by clicking the small triangle next to each. Each category displays a number next to it, showing how many settings there are.

Hacking the Hack
In the God Mode folder, you can create shortcuts to any of the items in the Quick Launch folder, in the Start Menu folder, and in the Power User Menu folder. That way they’re always within easy reach