Rivera unlocks all hidden features in Windows 7 M3

Rafael Rivera has spent a busy few weeks fulfilling the dreams of Windows users everywhere and his latest tool is a magnum opus of sorts: The Blue Badge tool, which unlocks all hidden features in Windows 7 M3 : Last week, I revealed a weird protection scheme around some unfinished features in Windows 7 (build 6801). I provided a buggy tool to enable the new Taskbar, then teased everyone with other features such as gestures, panning , and Desktop Slideshow . It wasn’t intentional, I just needed some time to rework the unlocking tool, which went faster thanks to some code snippets from my Vize friend surrounding the headaches of TrustedInstaller and PendingFileRenameOperations . As the dialog indicates, patched files are not backed up. I suggest all users back up. [See post for details.] Right now, an x86 download is available. Raf tells me he’ll get the x64 version done today. Good stuff, man.