MS Notepad freaky thing!

georges · 3 Dec 2006 at 17:32

number41 said:
Been looking at the easter eggs thing and it's interesting! Seems MS dont do it anymore however according to Wikipedia (the source of all knowledge!) due to MS being part of the Trustworthy Computing thingy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_Computing

Go into Word 2003 and type =rand(200,99) then press return(enter). 225pages of ". The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

I'd say they are still there. Not sure if there are more. This is the only one I have heard of.

J1234 · 3 Dec 2006 at 17:37

georges said:
Go into Word 2003 and type =rand(200,99) then press return(enter). 225pages of ". The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

I'd say they are still there. Not sure if there are more. This is the only one I have heard of.

Beat me to it, change the numbers in the brackets to change how many times "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is shown.

blighter · 3 Dec 2006 at 17:47

i like going to start, run, then typing in:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

ok, not a microsoft egg but still cool

blighter · 3 Dec 2006 at 17:48

also:
1. Go to control panel
2. Open up the "speech" properties
3. In the preview box, type "Crotch"
4. Press "preview voice"
Instead of saying "crotch", the voice will say "Crow's nest".

Al Vallario · 3 Dec 2006 at 17:55

blighter said:
Instead of saying "crotch", the voice will say "Crow's nest".

The Microsoft speech tools censor a lot of words, if I remember correctly. A nickname for people called 'Richard', for example, is automatically translated to 'Richard'.

*av

SwishSpencor · 3 Dec 2006 at 19:15

blighter said:
i like going to start, run, then typing in:

ok, not a microsoft egg but still cool

I cant belive im watching ASCII Star Wars

R.O.S.S.I · 3 Dec 2006 at 22:36

SpankLikeThis said:
I cant belive im watching ASCII Star Wars

LOL me too.

meghatronic · 3 Dec 2006 at 23:02

SpankLikeThis said:
I cant belive im watching ASCII Star Wars

It's... kinda sad that some did this....

TheCrow · 3 Dec 2006 at 23:03

jdickerson said:
It's... kinda sad that some did this....

just as sad as the people who made the actual film? - yup

edit: ....

meghatronic · 3 Dec 2006 at 23:06

TheCrow said:
edit: ....

fool!

Dunks · 3 Dec 2006 at 23:23

_Jimlad_ · 3 Dec 2006 at 23:23

you bunch of geeks

dwarf · 4 Dec 2006 at 00:06

How much time must it have wasted to make this starwars thingee!?

Aod · 4 Dec 2006 at 00:13

about a month?

MetA · 4 Dec 2006 at 00:17

How long does the Star Wars go on for ?

I gave up after a while .... but at least "Han shoots first"

A.N.Other · 4 Dec 2006 at 00:28

That telnet starwars thing is pretty impressive (but pretty sad

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Logsi · 4 Dec 2006 at 00:52

I copied and pasted the reopened text into google and got this!

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=桴獩愠灰挠湡戠敲歡&meta=

Weird.

EDIT- http://apipes.blogspot.com/2006/06/this-api-can-break.html

Phate · 4 Dec 2006 at 01:38

Doesn't do it in Vista

Al Vallario · 4 Dec 2006 at 01:41

Phate said:
Doesn't do it in Vista

At last!

After years of searching, we have finally found something which Windows Vista has improved on!

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Phate · 4 Dec 2006 at 01:43

Al Vallario said:
At last!

After years of searching, we have finally found something which Windows Vista has improved on!

*av

I've been using it for 2 days now and I can assure you it is a grand improvement over XP

Not one error or a Single bluescreen to date!!!!

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