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A. To supply certain government agencies with software, Microsoft can't include undocumented features, including Easter eggs, in its software. As a result, no Easter eggs exist in XP.

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I have found two things in Windows xp I consider to be Easter Eggs. In your windows folder C:/windows there is a movie file called clock its just a simple movie but I consider it to be an Easter Egg also there is a file called 0 and has nothing written in it I also consider this an Easter Egg.

Ted Busch November 03, 2002

hi there, i just have to disagree with your comment as there is one easter which opens up a media file through windows media, it s a long process to achieve hoewever there is still an easter egg there, thanks .

stephane December 19, 2002

Dear Friend:

WinXP <i>does</i> come with "Easter Eggs".
For example, open the game Solitaire (Not Spider Solitaire) and press: ALT+SHIFT+2
Result: you win

This along with the "0" and Clock.avi files in your c:\WINDOWS directory too.

Thanks for your time,..

Micro January 23, 2003

also there is the 0 file its in "c:\windows\" nad its a file that is nothing its just a txt file with the name 0.log that has nothing and a file called clock.avi that is just a simple avi file

NeonLightning January 25, 2003

open solitare and press

alt+shift+2

only in xp

john q February 05, 2003

open solitare, and press [SHIFT+ALT+2] this only works in the solitare packaged with xp
;)

Corsair February 08, 2003

Try to create a directory/folder named "con" in any version of windows.
;)

Corsair February 08, 2003

check out this link....
http://www.eeggs.com/items/37518.html

also, in IE6, if you type in "About:Mozilla" , in the address bar, you get a blue screen.

cameron February 14, 2003

Absolute nonsense. This has got nothing to do with gov. agencies. There are more countries than just the US, remember. (Even though most US-citizens have never been told that there's more beyond their borders :-) - The Dutch, French and German versions of Windows did have Easter eggs in Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 98SE, NT4, 2000 and will most likely have them in XP. The fact that these eggs may not exist in the US versions, is irrelevant. Your statement simply is false.

Mike March 09, 2003

C'mon Microsoft!! Why does everything have to be done by the book? Its nice to see developers pictures or mini games hidden inside software. Where's the old Microsoft gone? Everything seems to be done for profit nowadays and it would be nice to see a bit of light-hearted fun!

Bill Gates March 25, 2003

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