Excel Shooter
This one is a whole game, embedded into Excel 2000. No wonder MS software is bloated!

1. Boot Excel 2000
2. Under file menu, do ‘Save as Web Page’
3. Say ‘Publish Sheet’ and ‘Add Interactivity’
4. Save to some htm page on your drive.
5. Load the htm page with IE. You should have Excel in the middle of the page.
6. Scroll to row 2000, column WC. Select row 2000, and tab so that WC is the active column.
7. Hold down Shift+Crtl+Alt nad click the Office logo in the upper-left.

If you have DirectX, you will be playing what looks like Spy Hunter. Use the arrow keys to drive, space to fire, O
to drop oil slicks, and when it gets dark, use H for your headlights.

Win98 Credits

1. In the Windows directory go to “Application Data\Microsoft\WELCOME”
2. Create a Shortcut for the file Weldata.exe by right clicking on the file and selecting “Create Shortcut”
3. Right click on the newly created shortcut and select “Properties”
4. In the shortcut tab, add the following at the end of the “Target” edit box ” You_are_a_real_rascal”. This
   causes the application WELDATA.EXE to be called with the argument ‘You_are_a_real_rascal’

5. Now in the “Run” combobox select “Minimized”
6. Click OK and double click the shortcut & ENJOY!

Cheating at Minesweeper
This one doesn’t work in any other Windows version except 2000.

1. Enter Minesweeper, and type “xyzzy”(No quotes).
2. Press the left shift key.
3. Look at the top-left most pixel on the entire screen. To see this pixel, you have to minimize or shrink Program
   manager, since this changing pixel resides on the background wallpaper. When the pointer in on a mine the pixel
   will turn colors.

Matrox Dev Team
On Matrox video cards, right-click on the icon in your taskbar, go to Help / About. Hold SHIFT-CTRL-ALT and double-
click the Matrox logo. Whalah! A picture of their development team!

Win95 Development Team
This one’s been known for awhile.

1. Create a new folder on the desktop and title it “and now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for”
2. Rename that folder to “we proudly present for your viewing pleasure”
3. Rename it the folder to “The Microsoft Windows 95 Product Team!”
4. Open the folder, and the credits should be displayed.

Conclusion

I think that gives you a taste of what programmers do in their downtime. This is only a small sample of the Eggs
that are out there. Some of them are smalltime, some are huge. I heard there’s a whole flight simulator embedded
into Excel 97. There’s a pinball game embedded into Word 97 SR2. Now, here are a few sites you can check out if you
want to do some further playing.

http://www.htsoft.com/easter/
http://www.eeggs.com/
http://www.eggheaven2000.com/

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