{"id":20378,"date":"2020-11-24T08:10:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=20378"},"modified":"2020-11-24T08:10:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T13:10:04","slug":"create-a-desktop-shortcut-to-all-control-panel-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/create-a-desktop-shortcut-to-all-control-panel-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a Desktop Shortcut to All Control Panel Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>Create a Desktop Shortcut to All Control Panel Items<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Everyone else calls this &#8220;god&#8221; mode. We&#8217;re not much in favor of that name. So, we call it the &#8220;Empower&#8221; mode. But no matter what you call it, this tip will help you make a shortcut on your desktop to every single Control Panel item.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And while many Control Panel items have been moved to the Settings app in Windows 10 &#8211; many have not, and some are available in both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And because when you click on your new &#8220;Empower&#8221; mode desktop shortcut, you may find settings you never saw listed in Control Panel before&#8211; but they were always there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While you can create a shortcut to Empower Mode anywhere, we think it is best on the desktop where it&#8217;s easier to find and therefore more likely to be used, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here&#8217;s how to create a shortcut to Empower Mode and get every single Control Panel in one click.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1. Create a new folder on your desktop (Right-click on an empty space on your desktop and click &#8220;New&#8221; then &#8220;Folder&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2. Right-click on the newly created folder, choose &#8220;Rename&#8221; and rename it exactly as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>EmpowerMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(We recommend you copy that folder name and then paste it.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">3. When you&#8217;re done, you&#8217;ll have an icon on your desktop that looks like this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span class=\"auto-style790\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> <span class=\"auto-style747\"> <span class=\"auto-style67\"> <span class=\"normaltext\"> <span class=\"auto-style1\"><span class=\"auto-style9\"><span class=\"auto-style7\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/empoweredu-icon.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Internet Windows Tips &amp; Tricks\" width=\"116\" height=\"83\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And when you click it, you&#8217;ll be empowered with every Control Panel setting &#8212; right at your fingertips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/empower.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Internet Windows Tips &amp; Tricks\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Create a Desktop Shortcut to All Control Panel Items Everyone else calls this &#8220;god&#8221; mode. We&#8217;re not much in favor of that name. So, we call it the &#8220;Empower&#8221; mode. But no matter what you call it, this tip will help you make a shortcut on your desktop to every single Control Panel item. And while\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/create-a-desktop-shortcut-to-all-control-panel-items\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948],"tags":[1595,4115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20380,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378\/revisions\/20380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}