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Easter Eggs

What is an "Easter Egg"?

We daily use many computer programs ( like IE,MS Word etc.). We feel that we have explored almost all the facilities on these softwares. But there is something almost everyone misses. They are the Easter Eggs. Easter Eggs are amusing tidbits that programmers hide in their programs. They may contain the details of the development team or something really interesting...Not only computer softwares, even movies, music, books or your wrist watch may have an easter egg.

I have included here some of the most popular easter eggs in the most common softwares and OS. Try them out they are really interesting..

WINDOWS 98

Windows 98 Team

1. In the Windows directory go to "Application Data\Microsoft\WELCOME"
2. Create a Shortcut for the file Weldata.exe by right clicking on the file and selecting "Create Shortcut"
3. Right click on the newly created shortcut and select "Properties"
4. In the shortcut tab, add the following at the end (after putting a space) of the Target edit box "You_are_a_real_rascal". This causes the application WELDATA.EXE to be called with the argument 'You_are_a_real_rascal' .
e.g.:The target should look like
"C:\WIN98\Application Data\Microsoft\WELCOME\WELDATA.EXE" You_are_a_real_rascal
5. Now in the "Run" combobox select "Minimized"
6. Click OK and double click the shortcut & ENJOY!

Volcanoes

Goto control panel - display click on screen savers tab select "3D Text" click on settings in the graphics text box type "volcano". The screen saver will show the names of volcanoes.

WINDOWS XP

Hidden quotes in Windows XP

There is a secret file in Windows XP called "quotes". In order to get there you must be somewhat familiar with how to use Windows, simply open up My Computer (explorer) and double click on your main drive (probably C:) next navigate to: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\etc This is where the quotes file is. Open the file named quotes in your favorite text editor (notepad, MS Word, Emacs:p ) then look at the quotes put there by the MS developers!

VISUAL BASIC 6

Developers

1. From VB's View Menu, select toolbar, then customize......
2. In the resulting dialog, click on the command tab.
3. In the Categories List, select Help.
4. Select "About Microsoft Visual Basic" in the Command List, and drag it to any menu or the toolbar.
5. Right-click on the item you just dragged and rename it to "Show VB Credits" (without quotes).
6. Then close the "Customize" dialog and click on the "Show VB Credits" item.

MACROMEDIA FLASH 5

Flash 5 Game

1. Open Flash 5
2. Choose Help - About
3. (Double?) Click on the "M"macromedia logo before the animation stops playing. 4. Click on "Thanks"
5. Play "FlashBlox" - a Tetris clone!

MICROSOFT WORD

Cast of Characters for Word2000

Requires: Word2000

1. Open Microsoft Word2000
2. Press F1 or click the "Office Assistant" button
3. Under the "What would you like to do?", type "Cast" (No quotes)
4. Click SEARCH
5. Click the MICROSOFT OFFICE 2000 USER ASSISTANCE STAFF topic
6. Click the graphic in the Microsoft Word Help screen

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

Requires: Powerpoint 97
1. Load Power Point
2. Go into "Help-about"
3. Hold ctrl,shift and alt
4. Click on the horizontal line, (under the licensing info) 3 times
5. Sit back and enjoy!!

PHOTOSHOP 6

PhotoShop 6.0 CAT!

1. Open PhotoShop 6
2. hold down CTRL-ALT
3. go to Help > About PhotoShop...
4. see the cat (Venus in Furs)

FRONTPAGE 97,98 OR 2000

1. Start "FrontPage Explorer".
2. With "FrontPage Explorer" application open, hold down the Shift key 3. Select Help > About 3 times. (Click OK for the first 2 times)

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