The existence was widely published outside of Microsoft documentation in 2007[2] and gained popularity when the name "God Mode" was used by bloggers.
This allows users to type what they want to do (e.g. "Change screen resolution") and they will get the right control panel options as search result.
Third parties have published the method since at least 2007 under titles such as "[Registry Hack] VISTA - All Control Panel & Setting tasks at one place".
[2] Numerous blogs and tweets on the subject appeared in December 2009,[6][7][8] as well as January 2010,[9][10][11] referring to it as "Windows 7 Godmode", with many sites repeating the same information available elsewhere.
[12] A CNET article attributed many of the GUID shortcuts to the head of Microsoft's Windows division, Steven Sinofsky.