Interesting Windows XP Hacks

Here are some interesting hacks found for Windows XP from sites like Metacafe or YouTube for your pleasure...

Instant Win in Solitaire:
In the game, just hold down ALT+SHIFT+2. Instantly win!

Default Message in Word:
Type (or copy) =Rand(100,100) and press enter. The quick brown fox will jump over the lazy dog too many times to count!

Minesweeper Trick:
Know where all the mines are in Minesweeper! Open minesweeper and press xyzzy. Hold down shift, and you'll soon see a white pixel in the very top left corner of the screen. You can let go of shift, and when you hover your mouse over a square with a mine, the pixel will dissapear. Right click over those squares with mines until you've flagged all the mines. then just finish the game. And the cool thing is, if you're sly enough, you can do this around friends and no one will know how you did it!

Pinball Cheat:
In Pinball, type "hidden test." Move your mouse and click and drag. Your mouse now controlls the ball! You can move the ball anywhere you want in the machine. You have an unlimited number of balls too as far as I've seen. Also, you can press R to increase your rank in the game, press H to put yourself on the high score list for a million points, and M shows the memory of possibly how many times in the entire history of the game something's been hit. I still do not completely know what M is for. But anyway, have fun with this little trick.

Freecell Tips:
In Freecell, you can press CTRL+SHIFT+F10 and a dialog box comes up with three commands: Abort, Retry, and Ignore. If you click Abort and move a card, you instantly win. Also, you can go to Game > Select Game, answer yes if a window comes up, and then type -1 in the dialog box, and you sort all the cards in ascending order. Type -2, and you sort all the cards in descending order.

Hidden Windows XP Music
If you had the speakers on when you first got your computer, you heard this music playing when you were filling in all the information for registration etc... Here's where it is in your system. Right click the start button and click Explore All Users. Then when that pops up, go to the C Drive, then go to WINDOWS > system32 > oobe > images. Within this folder, you should find a music file called "title." There's your hidden music! Also in this file is a Windows XP into animation video called "intro", a sound effect called "clickerx," and a variety of images that were used when you first started up the computer.

Star Wars Episode IV in Comand Prompt
Go to Start > Run, and type the following: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Click OK and the show will start automatically within 30 seconds.
Note: If you want to be able to control the show, you can view it at http://www.asciimation.co.nz/.