Windows XP Easter Eggs

pic Pinball Mouse Control (not an egg) - 8.2/10 with 88 votes
This is a cool egg if youare rubbish at microsoft pinball or just want to make your friends know that you rule. This is how to do it:

Press start, All programs, games, Pinball.

When you are in pinball wait until the ball appears ahd then type in... more
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pic Easier Way to Force Win in Solitaire - 7.2/10 with 1052 votes
Select the 'Timed game' and 'Standard' scoring options, then play for over 30 seconds. Press Alt + Shift + 2 (above 'w', not keypad 2). This will end the game, add a bonus to your score, and play the celebration. After the celebration (which may be... more
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pic Windows Speaks Slang - 6.9/10 with 209 votes
1. Go to control panel
2. Open up the "speech" properties
3. In the preview box, type "Crotch"
4. Press "preview voice"

Instead of saying "crotch", the voice will say "Crow's nest".

Parameters that may be irrelevant:
I'm using Windows XP SP2... more
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pic Bush Reference? - 6.7/10 with 494 votes
Load up notepad.

Type "bush hid the facts"

save the document, any name works.

Close it.

Open it again.

what you open isn't what you typed.
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pic Hidden Meaning in Xp - 6.0/10 with 1 votes
Do you know what is the "XP" in Windows XP? Get the answer easily!
1. Go to Control Panel, then Display.
2. Select "3D flying objects" in Screensavers.
3. Click "Settings".
4. Than select "Textured flag" in Style.
5. Click OK without selecting any... more
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pic Force Win and New Options in Solitaire (All Windows Versions) - 5.3/10 with 308 votes
To use this egg you will need a program called ResHack, to edit the resorces in Sol.exe. Reshack is a freeware program available to download at http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/

Ok, now when reshacker is installed, open it up, and open... more
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pic Why the computer shut down unexpectantly - 5.2/10 with 635 votes
Interesting Dialog Code found in Windows Xp Professional's MSGina.dll

Found using ResHacker(Resource Hacker) Avilable at:

http://neo-vortex.xepher.net/reshack.zip

Open MSGina.dll, Select DIALOG, go to 2210, then select 1033

you will see (in... more
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pic Candy Cane Pipes - 5.1/10 with 398 votes
Egg Body
OK Here Goes.
1.Go to Display Properties
2.Click the Screen saver tab then Click 3D Pipes 3.Click Settings
4.Click Textured
5.Click Choose Texture
6.Click Cancel.
7.Click OK on the Screen Saver Setup
Now The Pipes
should be Candy... more
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pic Bush Hid the Facts - 5.1/10 with 272 votes
1) Open up Notepad
2) Type "Bush hid the facts"
3) Save the document
4) Close and Re-Open

Enjoy :)
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Microsoft Bear - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32
3. Look for a file named "jdbgmgr.exe"
The icon of it is a grey teddy bear!
Fun Fact: Its actually a picture of a teddy bear one of the Microsoft employees used to carry around.

pic Sam's Voice - microsoft promote health food - 4.5/10 with 88 votes
1. Go to control panel
2. Open up the "speech" properties
3. In the preview box, type "soy"
4. Press "preview voice"
5. Enjoy!
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pic Hidden Brian Eno Ambient Mix on Windows Xp - 4.5/10 with 303 votes
Open My Computer and then put C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\images\title.wma into address bar.
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pic Windows Classic Scroll Bars in Paint - 3.5/10 with 56 votes
OK...
Start MS Paint
Click Image|Attributes
Set the size to 50x50 inches
Click OK
Select the Text Tool
Create a Textbox, but DON'T CLICK AWAY
Click either of the scroll bars
Click Anywhere on the canvas
VIOLA...Windows Classic Scroll Bars
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pic Updated Rainbow - 2.9/10 with 34 votes
I believe this goes under the "Vanity" clause; my theory (I can't tell since I'm *not* a programmer) is that they wanted to differentiate between the last "home user" version of Windows (ME) and XP. I happened to notice the difference when I tried the... more
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pic "Hello, World!" - 2.5/10 with 25 votes
1. Open your resource editing program (I used XN Resource Editor)

2. Open "C:\WINNT\explorer.exe" or "C:\Windows\explorer.exe" depending on what service packs you have installed.

3. On the left panel, open up Dialogs

4. Next, open number 7.

5.... more
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pic Hello World - 2.4/10 with 12 votes
1. Open your resource editing program (I used XN Resource Editor)
2. Open "C:\WINNT\system32\taskmgr.exe" or "C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe" depending on what service packs you have installed.
3. On the left panel, open up Dialogs
4. Next, open... more
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