Q&A: Are there any tricks i can do with my windows xp home edition? involving the Registry Editor?
Question by Andy R: Are there any tricks i can do with my windows xp home edition? involving the Registry Editor?
Is there any cool fun tricks i can do? Can i like rename my recycle bin? Sruff like that. 
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Answer by Navigator
None that I’d recommend. It’s one thing to go into the Registry to fix something, but **playing** with the Registry is asking for trouble, plain and simple.
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The registry is not something that you want to be playing tricks with. You can easily render your computer useless if you change the wrong thing.
messing with the registry is suicide, but here are some other easter eggs and tricks
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Solitare Win Code – alt+shift+2
StarWars Movie – Run: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Pinball Tricks – type: “Hidden Test” for mouse control. “H” for ultra high score. “R” increse rank
Invisible Symbol – alt+0160 (keypad numbers) (sample: )
ShutDown Icon – type into notepad: (new ActiveXObject(“Shell.Application”)).ShutdownWindows(); Then save to c: drive under the name “shutdown.js”
Windows Key – flag+D: Restore or minimize all windows, flag+e: displays internet, flag+F: Search for Files, flag+R: run box
Instant Toolbar – Drag a Folder up to the top and drag files into it, right click and uncheck show text option
Desktop Icons – any ulr, type “/favicon.ico”. Copy then apply to folders
Symbol Editor – Run: eudcedit
Excel Game – open Excel and save blank page as webpage, in save as window select Selection:Sheet, Add Interactivity, and Publish. Then in Publish as Webpage select Publish. Don’t save the sheetwork, and open the saved page. Go to row 2000, column WC. Use Shift+Space to select whole row, then press alt+shift+ctrl and click the Microsoft logo in the top right.
Word Egg – Type: =rand(x,y) X and Y represent numbers.
Solitare Floaters – Drag a card to a posission and press ctrl+a to hold it there.
Flight Simulator – In Excel 97, press F5 then type in X97:L97 then hit enter. Hit Tab once, then hold Shift+ctrl while clicking the Chart Wizard button. Flight Simulator will open.
Macromedia Games – In Macromedia Flash8, go to Help then About Flash Professional. Click the dot of the i in Macromedia and select a game
Pinball Unlimited – typing bmax at the beginning will give you unlimited balls
10 Items or Less – In notepad, you can’t type any letter sequence 4-3-3-5 (exa. bush hid the facts). It will be replaced by random Japanese charaters.
Caring Computer – In the Marquee screensaver, write “who cares” and eventualy it will change to “i do”
Hidden Track – Run: C:WINDOWSsystem32oobeimages show Hidden files, then open “Title” Enjoy!
Track Tune in – Under “Play” in Windows Media, select Play Speed and pick a speed. Amazingly, the Media Player will keep the pitch of the song.
Error Message – type: lol=msgbox(“Your text”, 20, “Your text2″) into NotePad. Replace the “yourtext” seqments with messages. 1 is the body of the message, 2 is the header. Save as YourTitle.VBS
Embeded Webpage – Right click on the desktop and select Properties. Go to the Desktop tab and click Customise Desktop. next click the Web tab, select New, and type in the website that you want embeded.
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that should keep you busy for a while