Windows XP Hacks

Regular office drudgery can be killing without office pranks. Here are some small time Windows XP hacks and some cheats to Windows XP games like solitaire, freecell and pinball. I know they are not very useful but never the less they can be a quick tool to brag about your Windows XP skills in the office or in front of anyone. Using these tools especially the cheats spoils the fun of playing those games but i once again tell you that they can be effective tool to brag, as noone expects cheats in the normal Windows Xp games atleast i didn't.

• Winning a game of Solitaire is so easy, you can do that by just pressing three keys on the keyboard. You can simply jab the combination 'Alt + Shift + 2' and all the cards will go into their appropriate places.
• If it's FreeCell that you plan to work on then switch to using 'Ctrl + Shift + F10' immediately after you start the game. You'll get a box that gives you three options: Abort, Retry or Ignore. Simply click on 'Abort' and move any card to win.
• Pinball is anothe fun game in Windows XP. To get extra balls type 1max at the start of a new game. The main motto in this game is to get the highest score and increases your ranking. So wanna increase your ranking without even playing the game ? then simply type 'rmax' at the beginning of a new game to go up in ranking.
• Windows XP has a secret application that lets you create and edit fonts. To access it go to 'Start>Run' and type 'eudcedit'. This will open an application called 'Private Character Editor' and you could have fonts like no other.
• Now everyone was aware about the bug in MS Word, ya the =rand one which used to fill so many pages. Well this one is working with the 'Open Word' which has been included in the beta version of Microsoft Office 2007 but the results in this are some what different. You create a blank document and type =rand(200,99) anywhere and watch as 556 pages get filled with text on help about inserting tabs and lot more.

This article was first seen in Times Of India.