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Windows XP Game Easter Eggs

Some cool easter eggs in windows games.

Freecell:

Instang Win- Hold ctr + shift +f10 during a game.You'll be asked if you want to abort,retry, or ignore. Pick abort and move any card to instantly win.

Hidden Game modes- Go to the game menu and choose select game. Enter -1 or -2 to start the hidden game modes.

Hearts:

Show all the cards- You need to change the registry key...HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionAppletsHearts create a new string value named ZB with the value of 42 once done start hearts press ctrl + alt + shift + f12 to show all the cards.

Solitare:

Instant win- Simple to do just press alt + shift + 2 during a game to win instantly.

Draw a single card in a 3 card draw game- Hold ctrl + alt + shift when drawing a new card.

Minesweeper:

Show mines- Minimize all windows. 0pen a minsweeper game and type xyzzy. Now hold one of the shift keys for one second now if u move your mouse cursor over one of the squares you will see a small white pixel in the top left corner of your desktop screen. It will turn black when you mouse over a mine.

Stopping the timer- Open minsweeper and start a new game so the timer will start counting once this starts press the windows key + d on your keyboard to show the desktop. So now when you select minsweeper from the taskbar it will continue playing with the timer stopped.

Pinball:

Start by typeing 1max at the beginning to get extra balls.

Instant Promotion- type in rmax at the start of a new game to move up in the ranks.

Gravity Well- type in gmax in the start of a new game to start the gravity well.

Skill Shots- Launch the ball partially up the chute past the third yellow light bar so it falls back down to get 75,000 points. There are six yellow light bars that are worth a varying amount of points:

  • First: 15,000 points
  • Second: 30,000 points
  • Third: 75,000 points
  • Fourth: 30,000 points
  • Fifth: 15,000 points
  • Sixth: 7,500 points

Test MODE- type hidden test at the start of a new ball to enter test mode. You won't know your in test mode though. But now you can left click the ball and drag it around. In test mode press the following:

  • H - Get a 1,000,000,000 High Score
  • M - Shows the amount of system memory
  • R - Increases your rank in game
  • Y - Shows the Frames/sec rate
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