Top 5 hidden features available on Windows 10 that you do not know

Maybe Windows is the operating system not too strange to you, right? Distributed and developed by Microsoft, Windows provides users with a lot of useful features, each of which is the result of a team of talented engineers who have been and will bring experience. best experience for our users.

With a complex, nuanced and vast operating system like Windows, it would be easy to understand if there were quite a few features that most people did not know. Therefore, in this article I will share with you some interesting hidden features of Windows that you may not know.

Let's get started !!!!

1. God Mode - Special folder on Windows

Can apply to Windows 7/8 / 8.1 again.

God Mod mode or another name is the  Shortcut Windows Master Control Panel. True to its name, God Mode is an extremely powerful mode, it provides advanced customization of Windows with over 200 advanced settings.

And, of course, it is hidden by Microsoft due to the risk of the user causing a lot of unforeseen harm.

However, for some of you computer savvy or simply wanting to learn more about advanced Windows features, this is a really great place. Therefore in this article I will share with you how to enable God Mode on Windows.

Perform:

+ Step 1: First, you need to create an empty folder for yourself, it is supposed to be used as a shortcut to access God Mode.

How to create a new Folder, you just need to right click, select Newand then select Folder. Here I will create at the Desktop always!

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+ Step 2: After you have a new folder, you will rename it in the format:

(Folder name). {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

For example, here I put a folder named:

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

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+ Step 3: As soon as the renaming is completed, the Folder will automatically change to the Shortcut format Control Panel as shown below.

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+ Step 4: OK! As the Shortcut creation is completed, you can double click the icon => a window will appear. Here we have a lot of advanced customization of Windows already.

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At this point, you can tinker to find out the features provided. I will have a separate article to list the cool, useful or redundant features that can be turned off to improve the performance of the device. You remember forward to it !

2. Slide To Shut Down - Swipe down to turn off the computer

This is a feature that allows you to drag to turn off the machine. It works as shown and…. Of course, other than making your shutdown suddenly look cooler, it really has no other use.

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But if you are interested in this mode, you can follow the instructions below:

Implementation:  Generally speaking, it is easy to turn on this mode, you can create a Shortcut anywhere. Here I choose outside the screen  Desktop.

+ Step 1: How to create a shortcut, you right click to select  New => next select  Shortcut as shown below.

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+ Step 2: In the window that appears, fill in the command below:

% windir% System32SlideToShutDown.exe

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+ Step 3: You choose Next and the next window will be  đặt tên cho Shortcut. You can customize it or leave it as default.

Once done, a Shortcut for the job  SlideToShutDown has already been created => now double click to try it!

3. Game hidden in Cortana !!!

Cortana on Windows 10 is an extremely interesting virtual assistant.

In addition to the  common commands, Cortana  also integrates a few Mini Games that you may not know. These mini games are not games for fun but actually they are a bit . bullshit.

Exam activating game you can turn Cortana then type (or speak)  Flip the Coin,  Rock Paper Scissors or  Roll the Die.

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4. Shake to clean screen

Surely you have also often encountered the Desktop case opening a series of cluttered windows, your solution now is to sit and turn off each window.

However, Windows provides users with a hidden feature  "Shake to clear your screen"  ( Shake to clear your screen ).

With this feature you just hold on to the top bar space and shake back and forth a few times. Immediately other windows will close leaving only the one you keep!

Very great, right.

5. Mixed Reality Viewer - 3D application

- In the updated version of  Windows 10 Fall Creator , which means from Version 1709 onwards, Microsoft has silently integrated an additional application that allows you to sit and manipulate the available 3D models. You can sit and kill some time with this app.

So how to use it? Very simply you open the bar  Search , or you can use the key combination  Windows + S => enter keywords  Mixed Reality Viewer in the search box and open it to use only.

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Above are some interesting features that were not announced by Microsoft because we found them. In the 5  hidden features on Windows 10  that I just introduced above, you already know a few. In addition to the features I have shared above, if you also know any other cool features, do not hesitate to share them to learn together.

If you find the article useful, please share it with your friends right away. Hopefully this article will be useful for you. I wish you a good day!

Lesley Montoya

Update 27 February 2021