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I recommend Microlinx Free Bookmark Manager and browser add on toolbar at: http://www.microlinx.com
This web based app lets you bookmark sites with two clicks of your mouse, just click, drag and click to drop into place on your own personal start page...like netvibes, but much more useful. Also include RSS feeds, UWA widgets a cool Most Recent & Most Popular Public Links panel to see what others are links to...great way to get off Facebook and rediscover web surfing.

The post is incorrect it is not a Shortcut that you must creat, but a new folder and paste the name admin.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}, and it works

God Mode (all admin tools you ever needed)

http://www.askvg.com/how-to-add-windows-7-god-mode-shortcut-in-my-comput...

Folks as impressive as this is you can access this "magic" menu by simply typing "All Control Panel Items" in the address bar of the control panel.

Hope this makes things a bit simpler

CK

In Windows XP, Vista and 7, press "Windows Key"+R, type shell:Common Administrative Tools into the box and click OK. This will get you a list of common administrative tools.

In Vista and 7, press "Windows Key"+R, copy shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and paste it into the box, click OK. This will get you a list of all tasks (as described in the article by Rik). Works on 32-bit. (64-bit needs some tweaks in some cases).

The above code is one of the Class IDs in the Registry at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID

Yes, a new folder must be created and named as above ie 'admin....' before a shortcut can be made to it!

Not quite what you asked, but here are the shell commands for various system special folders;

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/shell-commands-to-access-the-special-f...

and here is where the trick originated;

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/the-secret-behind-the-windows-7-godmode

There are a number of associated tricks.

Discovering things that can be done with Windows, or any OS for that matter, is a difficult and time consuming matter. Had Microsoft known everything about post NT Windows I doubt they would have bought SysInternals.

As to 'magic', that's in the science. This will, in due course, turn around and shake things up :)

Rik Mayell - Category Editor, Best Free Windows 7 / Vista 64 bit Software

There are some "hidden features" which can be called but they are mostly covered by various "tweak tips" and utilities, XP has been on the market for quite a while now.

Everything is pretty well documented.

My own main personal machine is an XP machine, and I still see no real reason for me to change. I use many machines at customers in the firm etc, and I also get to talk to a lot of technicians, so I get lots of tips on various things. This stuff is bread and butter to a good technician. Installing free software that makes things easier or better is a real plus for a customer, not because it is free ( although that too is important for many!), but because it makes their lives easier and more productive. Many things are a great deal harder for "average" users, they have no real training, they don't spend day after day researching and solving problems, and they are often very poorly informed.

There aren't really any "Magic" tricks. This for 7 one just happens to be very impressive because 7 is new, and this trick utilises a programmers back door to give better access. Microsoft refuse to comment on it! :)

This 'GodCode' should work on all Windows 7 systems and shouldn't be used with any other version of Windows. Use of a CLSID entry point from one version of Windows, in this case 7, is likely to 'undo' you if used in another.

Rik Mayell - Category Editor, Best Free Windows 7 / Vista 64 bit software

It will work on some systems, as will some other "GodCodes", but it will crash others. It may even cause system damage.

The code given has worked on every 7 system I have tried, and quite a few people now use it routinely, simply because it is extremely convenient.

If you don't know what it does on any given system, then I would advise you not to use it! The title of this article also specifies Windows 7. If you use it somewhere else and it doesn't work, or causes problems, then that is not only not surprising, but also rather silly!

This has been rumored to work in Vista on a 32 bit (x86) operating system, but in a 64 bit Vista operating system it will crash.

I'd like to suggest Find In Tabs which searches text in all open tabs, FoxClocks, Organize Search Engines, Add to Search Bar, and Launchy.

I recommend some of my addons (I use around 36 addons)

- Must have: AdblockPlus, NoScript (already mentioned)
TabMixPlus: full control over tabs
WebOfTrust: protect against frauds, fake logins...
AllInOne Sidebar: a very convenient tool

- Should have: (depending on one's needs)
Resurrect Pages: when pages are blocked or deleted but you still want them.
MasterPasswordTimeout: fix a problem in the way FF handles "password asking".
GooglePreview: a thumbnail for each search result.
Fireshot: capture webpages as pics (very good even when facing movies, flashs), I previously used ScreenGrab but it can't deal with media.

Personally I don't think RedirectRemover is a must-have.

WOT is a good idea of community protection.

HOWEVER its good point is also its own enemy. Why? It depends on majority opinions; and in a community how many techs, how many savvy users and how many newbies are there?

--In the end, WOT becomes a collection of newbies' opinions.--

So it can only detect obvious viruses. If the site has a well-hidden code that is out of reach of normal users, WOT is out of luck.

As for adblocking, I agree that AdBlock Plus is excellent. And might I add CustomizeGoogle? Once added, you can specify all types of ad-content and click-tracking to block.

I'm less pleased with NoScript, as it takes some time to whitelist the content you don't wish to block.

Good luck with all :)

Ninja Antivirus for USB is there. But i didnt find it quite effective. Best way is to scan a USB stick with antivirus, before you start using it.

Anupam Shriwatri, India

Fantastic! Thanks!

Hi, I use a 120 Gb hard disk, I not able to format it through any means!... I tried doing everything I could! is there any software that I could use to get it formatted?

The driver updater says free but that is just the scan just like every other scab site that claims free just to take you in for your money

I downloaded a movie and cant watch it on my dvd player samsung dvdr150 can u help

I downloaded FLVs from a random Web site (not on the list of media sites supported) using Firefox 3.0.2 without problems--just clicked the drop-down arrow next to the animated icon, and it found the FLV file embedded in the HTML without an issue. Great resource.

I am using the extension successfully with FF 3.0.1

Anupam Shriwatri, India