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Team credits
To see a cool little multmedia presentation of the Windows 98 development team with pictures and music, follow these steps: Open Windows Explorer Go to C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\WELCOME\ Right-click on Weldata.exe and hold the mouse-button Drag to the Desktop and let go of the button Choose Create Shortcut(s) Here -- You can create a shortcut to the Weldata.exe file any way you like -- Right-click on the new shortcut icon, choose Properties, and make sure you're on the Shortcut tab. In the Target
box, type You_are_a_real_rascal
at the end after the stuff that's there --put in a space. So it will look
like: From the Run: drop-down list, choose Minimized Click OK Double-click on the Shortcut icon and watch the fun! submitted by: Hephaestus posted: 5/18/00 Say hi! to the Winamp 2.xx Developer This should work with any Winamp version that starts with 2. Some of the elements that I name may be different on your Winamp, but you should be able to find the equivalents. Start Winamp Click on the icon on the top left of the toolbar ... looks like a little sine wave for me. Choose Nullsoft Winamp... (might be About on yours) You should see a crazy-looking dude with headphones retreating from you on the screen leaving acid-like traces Hold CTRL-ALT-SHIFT and double-click on the Copyright line The crazy guy's face will be replaced by ... the developers! His name is Justin, I've heard :) submitted by: Froggy posted: 5/18/00 Spicing up your icons You're probably used to seeing the same old icons on your desktop all the time, and you may not like the automatic icons you get when you make a new Shortcut. You can change that, though, by finding cool new icons in Windows files. A lot of icon pics are stored in .dll files (dynamic linked library). To change the icon on a shortcut , right-click on it and choose Properties. Make sure you're on the Shortcut tab and then click the Change Icon... button. You then get a Change Icon window with a white box under File Name. You can type a full path in there and choose from different, cool-looking icons. Here are some that I found ... there are TONS more (there are icons in files that aren't .dll files) so you can cruise around and try to find new ones if you want.
Pretty neat, eh? submitted by: Zanth posted: 4/28/00 Internet Explorer Easter Eggs Using Slammy's instructions below, I did not get the multiplicity of options he indicated. I did however observe, upon clicking the customize button, a small video that loaded. This video started with a colored Easter Egg breaking open. Inside was most likely Netscape/Mozilla's Godzilla. With that said, the IE letter e drops on the head of the great lizard and kills him. All with the saying: IE5 ROCKS! If this is another Egg, then wonderful! submitted by: Slammy posted: 4/14/00 Internet Explorer Easter Eggs Another example of bloatware at its best! IE5 has a bunch of hidden stuff in it, including some pics of people who must be the development team and other little oddities.
The left-hand pane now contains a TON of stuff you can play with!! Though you should spend some time testing all the choices, here are some of my personal favorites:
Plenty more, so you'll have to check it out yourself. submitted by: Rei A. posted: 8/20/99 Hold down 'Ctrl', then click Start / Settings / Taskbar & Start Menu. You'll notice that a new tab will be there: 'Desk Bar Options'. You can't do anything with it, but this seems to be an unfinished feature of Windows 98. submitted by: Tommy Gjerdin posted: 5/28/99 Type beer without quotes instead of volcano as the text in 3Dtext scr.saver. It will give you a lot of beer names. Rob note: Does this work for anyone? It doesn't work on my system. Maybe it was a Win98 beta thing? posted: 2/19/99 Windows 98 Product Team 1) In the Windows Directory go to Application data\Microsoft\Welcome 2) Create a shortcut to the weldata.exe file 3) Change the properties of that shortcut to read in the target at the end You_are_a_real_rascal 4) Click on run and select minimized 6) Click Ok then double click the shortcut to see the Windows98 Product Team posted: 2/19/99 Eject PC? 1) Go to Notepad on the Start Bar and click on Properties 2) Click Change Icon and double click on the same icon again 3) Hover between Start and Shut Down and you'll be able to Eject your PC (This feature of Win98 is actually used to eject laptops from a docking station - but this is a strange way to enable that option on desktops!) posted: 2/19/99 Pinball inside Word 97Start Word 97 and type the word Blue in a new document. Highlight the word Blue and click Format on the menu at the top of the screen then click on Font. Change the color of the word Blue to blue and make the word bold then press Enter. After the word Blue (which should now be Bold and Blue) type a space then a quote then a space then a quote. Then click on Help, then About Microsoft Word. Hold down the Control and Shift keys simultaneously and click the Word icon. -- Stefan Dzisiewski-Smith posted: 2/19/99 Flight Simulator inside of Excel 97 1) Open Excel with a new worksheet 2) Hit the F5 key 3) Type x97:l97 then hit enter 4) Hit the Tab key 5) Hold down the Control and Shift key and click on the Chart Wizard button You should now be in a Flight Simulator. While in the Simulator you can accelerate with the left mouse button and decelerate or reverse direction with the right mouse button. If you want to see the credits, go forward a little and then go to the left. The credits will be scrolling. -- Milan Indru Malkani posted: 2/19/99 Internet Explorer 4.0 Development Team 1) Go to Help and then click About 2) Hold the Control key and click and drag the E and drop it on the globe, then let go of the Control key 3) Now, hold the Control key again and drag the globe and try to PUSH the Internet Explorer logo to the side 4) When the Internet Explorer logo moves there will be a button called Unlock, click it. The globe will start dancing 5) Hold the Control key and move the E back on top of the globe and BOOM posted: 2/19/99 Windows 98 credits 1) Double click the clock on the bottom right of the Task Bar 2) Click on the Time Zone tab 3) Hold down the Control key and drag from Cairo, Egypt to Memphis, TN 4) Then continue holding the Control key and drag from Memphis to Redmond, WA then (still holding CTRL), drag from Memphis to Redmond (WA). -- Jason Boles Volcanos in the U.S. 1) Go to Display in Control Panel |
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