7 Cool Software Easter Eggs To Discover

Easter eggs

In the virtual world, it’s little lines of code inserted into the main programs that show up through a combination of key strokes or commands. Often it is a prank or just a bit of playful ego on the part of the programmer that ‘hatches the egg’ but for us common folks the discovery is unexpected fun.

So here’s a look at the basket of some popular software Easter eggs found in some common Windows applications…

1. Solitaire is easy (only in XP)
If you are finding it difficult to win in Solitaire, just press Alt + Shift + 2. Presto! The game ends and you win.

2.Foul play at FreeCell (only in XP)
Start a new FreeCell game. Hold down Ctrl + Shift + F10 during play. A dialog box appears asking you to Abort, Retry or Ignore. Select Abort and then move any card anywhere to win the game.

3.Window speaks proper (only in XP)
Go to Control Panel, open up the Speech properties applet and in the Preview field type ‘Crotch’ (without the quote). The voice preview says “Crow’s nest” instead.



4.Windows Welcome Music (only in XP)
An ambient music track you might not have heard before. Navigate to C:WindowsSystem32. We are looking for a folder named ‘oobe’. This folder has a subfolder named ‘images’. In ‘images’ click on the sound file called ‘title.wma’ to hear the soothing track – Windows welcome music.

5.Firefox’s comeback
This was supposedly a rejoinder to the Internet Explorer 5’s own joke that the Mozilla browser caused system crashes. To see Firefox’s reply type ‘about:Mozilla’ (without the quotes) in the address bar and hit it.



6.Firefox and the kitchen sink
In the address bar type in ‘about kitchensink’ (without the quote but with a space). Look at the interesting graphic that opens up.

7.Running Firefox within another Firefox
There doesn’t seem to be any apparent use for this but if you type in chrome://browser/content/browser.xul in the address bar, it will open up another Firefox instance but within the first browser.