Mark Koberlein

God Mode in Windows 7 and Vista

If you have Windows 7 or Vista (will not work on XP) and you want to feel like the Almighty by making Windows bend to your will try this:

Create a new folder anywhere on your computer's C: drive (ie. My Documents or the Desktop)
Rename the folder to GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
The folder icon should change, double click on it, and you should see something like this

One more thing, you can replace GodeMode with anything as along as you have .{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} at the end of if it without any spaces.

Pick your preferred diety:

Yahweh.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Elohim.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Jesus.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Jehovah.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Allah.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Bhagwan.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Krishna.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Rama.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Shiva.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Zeus.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Apollo.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

via. http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=1355&zoneid=12#

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How to Remove an EFI Partition in Windows

Awhile ago I used a USB drive to update OSX on a Macbook. To do this, I had to create an EFI partition on the drive in order for the Macbook to boot from it. I created the EFI partition using the Disk Utility on the Macbook. Today, I needed to transfer 60 gigs of data from my Windows 7 desktop to my netbook and the EFI partition was giving me some problems.

I had issues copying the files over to the USB drive because something was wrong with the file system. I tried to delete the partitions and format it using the usual disk management tools in Windows but it would not let me delete the EFI partition. So that leaves DISKPART. It's a command line tool that isn't intuitive but it only took a few steps to do the job.

1. Open a Command Prompt or PowerShell window and type DISKPART at the prompt

2. The first thing that you want to do is have DISKPART list the hard disks that it sees so that you can tell it which one you want to work with.
DISKPART>list disk

3. Then look at the list and you will propbably see a disk with a small partition (around 200mb) which should be the EFI partition. You will need to select the disk because all the commands are applied to the disk you selected.
DISKPART>select disk 2

4. Now all you have to do is tell it to clean the disk. This will remove all the partitions on the selected disk.
DISKPART>clean

That's it, not too hard. Now, you will have to partition the disk, format it, and assign a drive letter to it in order for you to open it up in Windows. You can do this through DISKPART and the command line but I prefer to open the Windows Disk Management and do everything there visually. If you would like to try to partition the disk in DISKPART then I would suggest reading Microsoft's KB doc on it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415

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