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Why can’t I u se GodMode a fter
Fall Creators Update?
Issue 4 92’s Cover F eature was a bout
QGodMode, a h idden W indows tool
which h as dozens of links t o C ontrol
Panel f eatures. I’ve found i t v ery h andy,
but after t he Fall Creators Update (FCU)
it no longer w orks. Y ou predicted
this might h appen d ue to Microsoft’s
approach t o C ontrol Panel. Can y ou
confirm i f G odMode has n ow gone, o r i s T o delete a ll your personal b rowsing d ata Use IObit Advanced SystemCare’s tabs t o h elp
there a n a lternative setup c ode f or the from Google click this s etting, then ‘All time’ identify p rocesses you c an close
latest update?
Vic J ackson LibreOffice W riter. Is this possible? so you m ay have overlooked it). To recap,
Dave W illington first click t he menu button ( three s tacked
It’s possible that FCU r emoved an dots) a t t he top r ight a nd then choose
Aexisting GodMode i con f rom y our Y e s i t i s, and y ou’re n ot the o nly ‘Delete activity by’ ( see s creenshot above
Windows d esktop. H owever, w e’ve tested Areader to have enquired about this left). Now c hoose ‘ All t ime’ and ‘ All
GodMode w ith F CU and i t s till works (see Don P almer’s l ead t ip in Readers’ products’ in the d ropdown m enus, c lick
just fine — b ut its icon no longer d isplays Tips, p age 4 3). This i s c learly a p opular Delete, t hen D elete again t o c onfirm.
the ‘ GodMode’ label. If FCU h as removed option so it’s worth repeating.
your GodMode i con t hen i t c an be re- First, open the F ile m enu, hover y our Which system processes c an I
created a s b efore. cursor over New, t hen c lick Labels. close i n W indows?
First, right-click a b lank area of your Next, in the L abels b ox that appears, I d ownloaded IObit A dvanced
desktop, t hen c hoose N ew followed by click ‘ Avery A 4’ in the B rand dropdown QSystemCare as per t he W o rkshop
‘folder’. N ame t his f older ‘ GodMode. menu and ‘ L7160 Address’ in the T ype in Issue 515 (page 3 5). Step 10 explains
{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C- dropdown menu (see screenshot below how t o c lose background p rocesses. I
99712043E01C}’ and p ress Enter. To avoid left). Finally , click t he New Document understand these can slow down a P C,
errors, y ou can visit t he Pastebin p age w e button t o c reate a n ew, b lank document but I h ave d ifficulty d eciding w hich
created a t www.snipca.com/26328 and with the t emplate y ou need for L 7160 processes can be closed and w hich
copy a nd paste the f ull code from there. labels. should be left open. C an you a dvise?
Frank Hodder
Can I p rint labels in LibreOffice? How d o I r emove all my
Thank you f or the u seful ‘Print Google data? We must admit t o a s mall mistake
Qpostage l abels f or free’ W orkshop in In Issue 5 15, y our C over Feature o n Ain this Workshop – t he rocket icon
Issue 515 (page 3 8). It obviously works Qwhat Google, Facebook a nd Amazon actually ‘cleans’ y our P C’s m emory,
well with Microsoft W ord, but I w ould know about us gives i nstructions on how rather than closing a ll background
love to print A v ery l abels L 7160 using to remove the d ata Google h as collected processes. Y ou can still do this by ticking
on you ( see p age 5 1). However, it seems all t he boxes t hen c licking E nd Task, b ut
you c an only delete one d ay at the t ime. that’s not a g ood idea u nless you r eally
Do you k now i f i t’s p ossible to wipe all know what you’re doing. Th e b est a nswer
the d ata in one f ell s woop? I ’ve s pent ages to a t ricky question is to close o nly t hose
removing around months’ w orth of data, entries you r ecognise and k now w on’t
so this would b e a g reat help. cause p roblems. Select SystemCare’s
Claude Legrand SpeedUp tab, then click C onfigure. I tems
under t he System S ervices tab a re best left
We did p rovide instructions on this. alone w hile those u nder Non-Windows
AThe relevant section directly f ollowed Services and B ackground A pps ( see
Choose this o ption in LibreOffice’s L abels the a dvice o n r emoving i tems one d ay at screenshot above) may b e s afe t o c lose,
window t o c reate a p ostal labels template a t ime ( it spilled into the n ext c olumn, but search on Google to research these.

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