Easter Egg

Easter Egg:
What is an "Easter Egg"?
The term "Easter Egg", as we use it here, means any amusing tidbit that creators hid in their creations. They could be in computer software, movies, music, art, books, or even your watch. There are hundreds of them, and they can be quite entertaining, if you know where to look.

Operating Systems

Windows XP Easter Eggs
"0" Blank File, and Clock AVI File
For Windows XP, If you look in your "My Computer\C:\WINDOWS\" In this folder, after all other folders, you find a text file named "0". If you open it, nothing will be in there, hence the filename "0". Another thing would be a file called "Clock". It's an AVI file. It can open it in Windows Media Player. It's a very simple and plain animation.

These 2 files, were probably left in by the Microsoft Programmers as Easter-Eggs for anyone that could find them.
Con Folder
1. In any windows or dos try to make a folder named 'con'.
2. You will be presented by an error that it already exists, or other error preventing you creating this directory.
"Quotes" in windows XP
Ok, there is a secret file in Windows XP called "quotes". In order to get there you must be somewhat familiar with how to use Windows, simply open up My Computer (explorer) and double click on your main drive (probably C:) next navigate to: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\etc This is where the quotes file is. Open the file named quotes in your favorite text editor (notepad, MS Word) then look at the quotes put there by the MS developers!

Easier way to force win in Solitaire
Here is how to make you instantly win a game of solitaire. Simply press Alt + Shift + 2.
Windows 2000
Boss key for games included with Win2k
1) Start->Program Files->Accessories->Games->Mine Sweeper
2) While playing the Mine Sweeper game or any other Microsoft-supplied game...
3) Hit the ESC key and window will close.
4) The task bar will contain "Budget.xcl" instead of the name of the program that was running.
Bill Gates
1. Right click the mouse, go to properties and backgrounds.
2. Choose clouds tiled as your background.
3. Click apply then ok, and go back to the main screen.
4. Click on my computer, and then change the name to my microsoft, don't move the mouse.
5. A video of bill gates, and some other software developers will appear if you don't move the mouse.
Teapots are still here...
The teapots in the 3D Pipes screen saver from Win95 and NT still work:
1. Change your screen saver to 3D Pipes(OpenGL).
2. click Settings
3. Change the settings to Multiple Pipes, Traditional joints, with Mixed joint type. Set the resolution to max.
4. Click OK
5. Watch
Volcano Screensaver
1) Right click on "Properties" on the desktop.
2) Go to the "Screensaver" menu.
3) Go to the 3-D text screensaver and open the properties.
4) In the text box, type "volcano" (without quotes).
Enjoy! Note: this is the same egg that has already been listed in Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT
Windows NT Easter Eggs
Volcano
1. Right click on the desktop and select Properties. Or open Control Panel from the Start button/Settings menu and select Display.
2. From the Display Properties, select Screen Saver.
3. Select 3D Text (OpenGL) as your screen saver type.
4. Click on the Settings button to configure the screen saver.
5. Change the text that the screen saver will display to "Not Evil".
6. Click OK to save the changes. Click the test button or wait until the screen saver kicks in the next time.
7. This will show the names of all the members of the Windows NT developer team.
8. You can also try the changing the text to "Volcano".
9. This will display the names of a bunch of volcanoes all over the world.
Pipes Screensaver
1. Open Control Panel
2. Open Desktop
3. Select 3D Pipes (OpenGL) as the screen saver
4. Click Setup, and set the joint style to mixed.
5. When the screen saver comes on - look closely. Every once in a while, a 'teapot joint' will appear.
OpenGL Eggs
1. Run Control panel
2. Select desktop
3. Select 3D Test (OpenGL) screen saver
4. Select setup
5. Enter "MUSIC"
6. Press OK to save settings (or try test first)
7. Press OK to save
8. The screen saver will display a list of bands when it comes up
Programmers
1. Go to the Main Menu and select Control Panel.
2. From Control Panel, select Desktop.
3. Select Open GL 3D text as your screen saver type.
4. Click on Options to configure the settings for the screen saver.
5. Change the text that the screen saver will display to "I love NT".
6. Either wait for the screen saver to come up or hit test. The names of all of the programmers will float in and out in 3D Text.
7. This also apparently works if you put "I love NT" in other languages as well... I know "j'aime NT". Try any languages you can think of.
8. If "I love NT" doesn't work, try "I like NT". For instance, "Me amo NT" doesn't work, but "Me gusta NT" does.
FreeCell Instant Win
1. Start a new game.
2. Hold down CTRL+SHIFT+F10
3. Follow the instructions.
4. Double click on a card to do it.
5. You can make it so when a person makes their first move, they lose the game!
They ARE Evil
1. Go to Control Panel
2. Double click Display
3. Go to Screen Saver Tab
4. Change Screen saver to 3D Text
5. Go to Settings
6. Change Display text to "not evil"
The Shadow Knows
1. While at your desktop, press [F1], to display the Help Topics: Windows Help dialog box.
2. Click on the find Tab. (If you haven't done the mumbo - jumbo before, follow the Wizard along...)
3. Click the Options... button, then select the All the words you typed in any order radio button.
4. In the Show words that dropdown list, make sure the begin with the characters you type options is selected, then click OK.
5. Once you return to the Find tab, select the text box at the top and type Who knows who built this tool? (Make sure you capitalize the W and include the question mark.)
6. Hold down the [Shift][Ctrl] key combination as you click the Clear button.
7. Now, click the Options... button once more, only this time, select the radio button titled At least one of the words you typed.
8. In the Show words that dropdown list, choose the contain the characters you type option, then click OK.
9. In the Find tab, type The Shadow knows! in the text box at the top. Make sure you capitalize the letters T and S and that you include the exclamation point.
10. Finally, hold down the [Shift][Ctrl] key combination as you click the Clear button. You should now see the Easter Egg in action.

Windows ME

Teacup Screen Saver
1. right click on desktop
2. click properties
3. click screen saver tab
4. choose 3D pipes
5. click settings
6. choose multiple pipes
7. choose traditional with mixed joints
8. resolution to max
9. solid texture
10. click OK
11. watch screen saver and every so often, the joint will be a teacup.

Volcano Names Screensaver
1. Go to Display Properties (under Control Panel)
2. Click on 'Screen Saver' tab
3. Select the '3D Text (Open GL)' Screensaver.
3. Hit the 'Settings' Button.
4. Change the text to 'volcano'.
You will have a screen saver listing different volcano names from the Northwest of the United States, where Microsoft is located.

Windows 98 & 98 SE

Windows 98 Team
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!
Registration Wizard hidden credits
1. Click Start, Run, and type WELCOME.EXE to load the Welcome to Windows program.
2. Click REGISTER NOW.
3. When the first screen of the WINDOWS 98 REGISTRATION WIZARD comes up, hold down CTRL-SHIFT and right click on the image to the left.
4. Voila.. hidden credits from the program's creators.
Reference to Wassily Kandinsky in Setup
In the actual Windows 98 setup files, there is a file called "DOSSETUP.BIN". If you look at the contents of this file with Notepad, Wordpad, DOS's EDIT, or any other text editor, you will find the following phrase near the end of the file:

Wassily Kandinsky was the great Russian painter who participated in the Expressionist movement in Germany, taught at the Bauhaus, and edited the Blue Rider Almanac.
Hearts Card Look
1. Press Start Button and then press "Run".
2. Type "regedit".
3. Goto: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Applets\Hearts
4. Insert a new String called "ZB".
5. Then Type "42" as String.
6. Start Hearts
7. Press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+F12 to see the Cards of the others.
Eject your PC!
1.Press Start.
2.Then Programs.
3.Then Applications.
4.Right click on calculator, then properties.
5.Click change icon. Double click the normal calculator icon.
6.Press Ok.
7.Press Start.
8.Wait a couple of seconds.
Windows 98 Team 2
1. Double click on the clock to bring up the date & time properties
2. Click on the 'Time Zone' tab
3. Hold down the Ctrl Key, ( here's the hard part,) Click and hold the mouse button down on Cairo Egypt.
4. With the mouse button still down, drag the pointer to Baton Rouge, LA.
5. Release the mouse button, but continue holding control.
6. Click the mouse button, and drag from Baton Rouge to Redmond, WA, release the button, and if it was done right, the same movie as was played in the 'Windows 98 Team' will play. Just a different way to get to it.

Windows 95

Bill Gates' Horse, Nugget
1. Start Windows 95.
2. Wait until you see the mouse cursor in the middle of a black screen.
3. Press in the following keys in this order (Do not type commas):
4. Ctrl, F6, Right shift, Delete, then click the right mouse button.
5. If you do it before the black screen is replaced by wallpaper, it shows Bill Gates' horse, Nugget.
3D Text Screen Saver Volcano Names (same as Windows NT)
1. Right click on desktop
2. Click properties
3. Click on screen-saver tab
4. Choose 3-D text, and click on settings
5. Type in the text box- "volcano"
6. Click ok, and enjoy
Computers Theme Wait cursor
If you select the "Computers" theme, the cursor for "Wait" will be a small monitor with a red and blue image. There is a series of bits running through it. I thought that is probably a "W" for Windows or something, but if you decode it properly - it's a plus-sign!
The Shadow Knows
1. Go to the start menu and click Help.
2. Click the tab marked Find.
3. At this point you may get a wizard asking you to set up Find. If you do, use the defaults.
4. In the Find dialog box click Options.
5. Set the top section to: All the words you typed in order, set the next section to: begin with the characters you typed.
6. Click OK to return back to the main dialog box, and enter in the top box exactly: Who knows who built this tool?
7. Hold down Shift and Control while clicking the Clear button.
8. Click Options again, and set the top section to: At least one of the words you typed, set the next section to: contain the characters you type. And click OK to return back to the main dialog box.
9. In the top box enter exactly: The Shadow knows!
10. Hold down Shift and Control while clicking the Clear button.
True Type Fonts
1. Get property.zip from Microsoft's web site
2. Install the True Type Font Properties extension ttfext.dll
3. Restart windows?
4. start/settings/control panel/fonts/
5. Right click on Times New Roman
6. Select properties
7. Select Tab reading "TrueType Credits"
Product Team Credits
1. Right Click on the Desktop.
2. Select New... then Folder.
3. Name the folder "and now, the moment you've all been waiting for".
4. Right Click on the folder and rename it to "we proudly present for your viewing pleasure".
5. Rename it again to "The Microsoft Windows 95 Product Team!"
6. Open the folder and the Windows 95 credits will be displayed. The folder will remain around so anytime you want to view the credits again, all you have to do is re-open the folder.

DTP Applications

Adobe Illustrator

Credits
Press CTRL, ALT and click on the Venus picture on the top of the toolbar. The credit screen comes up and all the developers names are anagrammed.

Corel Draw

Credits
Click on Help > About CorelDraw. Double click on a balloon icon and Enjoy the Program credits. To exit out, press ESC.
Elvis falls!
Hold down Shift + Ctrl and click on Help > About CorelDraw. Double click on an icon picture and click the right mouse button. Watch as Elvis falls in a parachute!
 

Corel Photo-paint

Fire the balloon
Click Help > About. Hold down Ctrl + Shift and double click the Corel Balloon picture. Click and hold the right mouse Button to fire up the balloon. Double click the sky icon in the right hand upper corner for more effects.
Picture
Hold down Ctrl + Left shift and click on Help > About. Release the keys and double click an icon picture in the About box.
 

Dreamweaver

More eggs
Select any picture in your web page and open up the properties palette. Hold down Ctrl and double-click Preview Picture on the Properties palette. To see more eggs, continue holding Ctrl and double-clicking Preview Picture.
Welcome to Foghorns
Select the Help box. Search help for "Target". Select "Welcome to Foghorns Homepage!

Excel 2000

Credits
Launch Excel and press F5. Type: x2000:|2000 and press Enter. Hold Ctrl + Shift. Click the Chart Wizard and enjoy the credits.
Game!
Open Excel and on the blank worksheet, click File > Save As and choose Save as web page. Click on Publish and Add interactivity and save the file with any name you like. Load the page with Internet Explorer and go to row 2000 Column WC. Highlight all of row 2000 and press Tab to make column WC the active column. Hold down Ctrl + Alt + Shift and click on the Office Icon. Use the arrow keys to drive your car. The "0" key to drop paint slicks. The space bar to shoot. The "H" key for headlights. Note: You need DirectX for this to work.
 

FreeHand

Different Photos!
Hold down the Ctrl key and click on Help > About to see the development team photos! Depending on your version, it will display different pictures.
Easter Egg
Hold down the Ctrl and click on Help > About Freehand for the Easter Egg.

Internet Explorer

See your self!
Open IE 5.5 Click on Help > About. Hold down Ctrl + Shift + Alt and click on acknowledgements.
Star Trek Space map!
Open up IE and click Tools > Internet Options > General > Languages. Click on the Add Button. Type "ie-ee" (no quotes) and click OK. More "User Defined [ie-ee]" to the top of the list. Exit back to where you can browse in IE again. Click on Search toolbar button and click Customize. Also, select Previous Searches. in search assistant, click on Fine Yourself. in the box that says "Please specify where you would like to be found" type in anything to g to to a star trek space map!
 

Outlook 2000

Catch it!
In the "Find a contact" box on the toolbar, type "Ren Hoek" and press Enter. Select Tools > Macro > Macros. In the Macro Name box, type "OL2KRocks" and click the Create button. The "About Microsoft Outlook: dialog appears. Hole down Ctrl + Alt + Shift and click OK. The Outlook 2000 teams credits appear. Try to catch the names as they fly across to the mailbox.
Outlook Website
In, Outlook, select File > New > Contact. In the Full Name box type "Ren Hoek". Click Save and Close. Go to the Contacts page and select the new contact. Open Help > About. Hold down the Ctrl > Shift + Alt and click OK. Credits are displays and a link to a hidden Outlook Website!

Paint Shop Pro 6

See your self!
Open PSP (Paint Shop Pro) and click on Help > About Paint Shop Pro. Hold Ctrl + Shift and double click on the About window. Type "paintshoppro" without quotes
Easter Egg
Click Help > About Paint Shop Pro. hold down Ctrl and double click with the mouse.

Power Point 2000

Easter Egg
Click Help > about PowerPoint. Hold down Ctrl + Alt + Shift. Triple click the background line sin the text box.
zOOm
Click help > About > Microsoft PowerPoint. Click the PowerPoint Logo. (double click in 2000). Use the arrow keys to speed up/down or zoom in/out.(95)

Windows Screensaver

Volcano!
Right click on the desktop and click on Properties. On the Screensaver tab, select the 3D Text screensaver and open its properties. In the text box, type "volcano".

Other Easter Eggs

At Ease

Scrolling Credits
1. hold down shift and option
2. go to the apple menu and select about at ease
3. wait and look
4. when you are done looking, click
5. sing the hokie pokie
Get to Finder without Password
1. Make Sure the LC 2 has Claris works 3. and Mavis Beacon Teaches typing and only 4mb of Ram...
2. Make sure no programs are running except for At Ease...
3. Now Start up Claris Works and if it gives you a window asking what kind of document to open just click cancel...
4. Now go to the Menu that shows you what programs are open and go back to At Ease...
5. Now that you have Claris Works running in the background you can now start Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing...
6. Instead of having Mavis Beacon open, you will have it go to finder...
7. Then just go to the menu that shows you what programs are running and go back to Claris Works and close Claris Works it you be back at finder...
Programmers "At Ease"
1. While holding down the Option key, choose "About At Ease" from the Apple menu.
2. Wait, and you'll get secret credits at the bottom of the dialog box.
3. Click to get rid of the dialog box. Now, once again, choose "About At Ease" from the Apple menu without holding any keys down.
4. Carefully point the tip of your cursor at the head of the upper middle Weeble head.
5. Amaze your friends as a headshot of programmer Gene Tyacke replaces the little Weeble head.
6. Try this for Scott Marcy's Weeble head just below Tyacke's.

Borland C++

Developer Credits (v 5.02)
1. Click Help, About
2. Hold down Control + Shift
3. Double click the text which appears below "Borland C++"
4. A screen will appear which lists the 5.02 development team
Curious George
1. Open Borland C++ Builder 3
2. In the code editing window enter #pragma curious_george
3. This works in any project which uses pramgas
4. I have tested this in an application and a console mode app
5. enjoy the warning message
The Hidden Cat
1. Create a C source with an editor, an type in
the following code:
#pragma keeka
void main(void) {return 0;}
2. Save with a name of your choice (e.g. "egg.c")
3. Compile the source with:
bcc32 egg.c
4. Watch the message the compiler displays!
This should work inserting the "#pragma" line in any C source ... I've not tested it with other version of the compiler.
Oh, yes, it's like the "Curious George" egg ...
Command-line compiler team
1. Run "bcc32.exe -Team"
2. Enjoy the compiler team

AutoCAD

Growing Windows
1. right-click on any tool bar
2. click in any area on the toolbars pop up
3. repeat step 2 many times!
Display Credits
1. go to HELP, then ABOUT
2. Double-Click on the Logo picture
Release 14 Team
1. Select "About Autocad" from the Help menu
2. Hold down Control+Shift
3. Click in the graphic area of the help box displayed
Picasso!!!
1. Open a drawing with text in it - not the line text, but "fat" characters.
2. Centering over a curved part of a character, zoom in using the wheel on the mouse.
3. Keep reentering it so that half the screen is the color of the letter and half is the background.
4. Enjoy the art!
Release 2000 Team
1. Select "Dimension style" from the Dimension toolbar, or go to the dimension pull down menu and select "style"
2. Hold down Control+Shift
3. Click on the Preview graphic area of the Dimension style manager box.
4. A movie will pop up in a new window with a large "T"
5. select play from the menu and you will see a 3D movie with a picture of the Team members at the end.

Automap
Rotating Car
1. Hold down SHIFT key while selecting Help and then Help About.
2. There's a red car appearing on the right side of the dialog that comes up

Technical Specs
1. Run Automap Streets
2. Click on Help
3. Hold the Shift Button & Press System Info
4. A Secret Technical Settings Window Appears

Canvas

Credits Scroll (v5.0.3)
1. Hold down the CTRL key
2. Select "About Canvas" from the help menu
Canvas 8 music
Open up canvas 8 and hold down ctrl-shift-apple and click on about canvas!!

Enfish Tracker Pro

Hitchiker's Guide
1. Size the main window so you can see the desktop.
2. Type anything into the find box (e.g. your name) and click apply.
3. Create a new text file on the desktop and rename it to ZAPHOD.42
4. Drag it into the Tracker window.
5. Look at the icon and type.
Funny Install Message
1. When you first install Eudora Light, you have at the right of the Help Menu, an extra menu called "Eudora Pro" which give you informations about Eudora Pro Software
2. You can remove
this menu choosing the command menu "Remove this menu"
3. Note the message about the command on the status line
"Have you ever cutt off a tree branch while sitting on that
branch?"
4. It is a joke!!
Add Spikes to Animation
1. Open Ewan
2. Click Help|About
3. Double-click with the right mouse button to add spikes to the animation

Flash

Macromedia Hidden Game
1. Click Help > About Flash
2. Quickly, *double* click the Macromedia logo with the two upward pointing arrows, to the right of the About Box.
3. Click the "thanks" button to the right to make th logo bounce up and down.
4. Click the "team" button to the right to play the rather cool "Gary's Car Jump Game!"
5. Try to get past 12 cars, that's as far as I got! :)
Bouncing logo
Go to the About Box of flash, then point your mouse on the M logo. There's a small clickable spot there that makes the logo bounce (just like in the doubleclick egg).
Alien Containment Facility
If you look at the Flash 4 CD-ROM, there is a directory called "Third Party" where third party software resides. In that directory, there is another called The Alien Containment Facility.
Open up the index.htm or the Flash movie. Click the first enter button to get to the main screen. Click the Menu button to get to the main menu. Click the first button "What is a Flashpack?" On the robot interface (named Login Z) you'll see four screws, one in each corner. Right click on the screw in the upper right hand corner and choose zoom in.
Keep doing this until the screw is big enough to click on. When you click on it, you'll see it has a secret "Enter" button underneath. You'll probably have to zoom in as far as you can to see the movie. Once you've clicked on the enter button, right click anywhere in the Flash movie and choose "Show All" to get back far enough to see everything.
 

Xteq X-Setup

Xteq X-Setup Easter Egg
"To see the Xteq X-Setup 4.0/5.0 Easter Egg press F3 to bring up an undocumented menu. The OK button doesn't work, so just click the X in the upper right corner to close it.

Note: The F3 menu has been removed from newer versions of X-Setup, starting with 5.5 and above.
BMW
1. Go "Help -> About..."
2. In the right lower corner there is a blue window with Greetings and Credits, double-click in the field from the left of the picture (it's where "The newest information... " is written.
3. In the blue window you'll see the running line BMW 328i.
Pretty useless egg, but anyway...
Zoom Zoom Car
Go to "help and choose "about". Notice, off to the side, the bar that says the logo and "Do more faster". If you click this once, it obviously transports you to the Xteq home page, but double clicking it will cause a little animated Text car to zoom across in the animated "thank you" box. The graphics aren't all that great, but its pretty entertaining
 
ARCserve
Developer Credits
1. In ARCserve Manager, go to Help | About
2. Hold down Shift-Ctrl and double-click in the About screen; credits will scroll by.
3. Repeat Shift-Ctrl-dbl-Click to see various pictures of the development team.
4. There is an AVI movie of the developers morphing into each other. Anyone know how to activate this?
Bomber Game
1. ARCserve console (Windows)
2. Click Help then About
3. CTRL and SHIFT and click on ARCserve graphic
4. Type GAMESERVE (don't press enter)

Director

Cool Credits
1. Enter Director from the desktop or whatever!
2. Go to the help menu and the about director
3. Wait until the credits show and click the left mouse button
4. Look at the positions of the workers.. Cool!
Hidden Song
1. Click on Help|About
2. Wait for a while...
3. While waiting you can watch the credits and play around with the dancing logos
4. After a while you will see a smiley pop out
5. Click and drag on this smiley and release
6. You will be treated to a song
Bill is Evil
In Director 8 and 8.5, open the Message window and type:

I like Bill

Note the change to the Director user interface! After you are done being ill, you can revert to the normal user interface style by typing:

Bill is Evil

Here's the full scoop on Egg.

During the Director 8 beta cycle, one of the Director engineers, Glenn Ruehle made an attempt to give Director a user interface make-over. Unfortunately it wasn't very well received by the beta list and so, instead of pursuing it further, the code was commented out. Realizing that someone might want to see the user interface example in the future, he added a simple method for revealing it.
 

Acrobat Reader

Woof
1. Start acrobat reader
2. Select Help>About Plug-ins>Acrobat Forms
3. hold in Control+Alt+Shift and click on the credits button.
Whale sound in Adobe Acrobat 4.0
1. Open Adobe Acrobat 4.0
2. Go to Help>About Plug-ins>Acrobat Annotations
3. Hold down Ctrl and left-click on Credits
4. You will then hear the sound of a whale, see the Plug-in logo change to a whale, and see the Credits button change to Harpoon.

Corel Printhouse

A Blimp and Fireworks
1. Go to Help>About.
2. Double Click on the the Icon with the Balloon on it.
3. You got a Blimp and Fireworks, the more you click, the more fireworks. You can also move the Blimp around with the keypad.
Hidden Credits
1: go to help / about
2: double click on the image shown in the pop-up window
3: cursor arrow will change into a hand and credits will start scrolling from the bottom of the image upwards.
4: have fun by changing scrolling direction by grabbing the credits roll with the hand cursor

Cakewalk Pro Audio

Screen Chess (v6.0)
1. Open up Help menu
2. Open up about
3. Press Ctrl-Shift and Click on the jumping cake
4. Try and rearrange your screen ;)
Mozaic Screen
1. Go to help/about windows
2. Hold ctrl/alt/shift
3. Double-click on logo
4. Watch and have fun
Credit Mosaic (v8.0)
1. Go to help/about windows
2. click on Computer that appear
4. Enjoy it!

Acrobat Exchange

Woof
Select the Help menu
Select About Plug-ins
Select Acrobat Forms
Hold down Control
Press the Credits button
Listen to 'Woof' and see the paw of a dog appear.
The Credits button should say 'Woof' now.
You can repeat as long as you press Control and press on the Woof/Credits button.
Harpoon
Select the Help menu
Select About Plug-ins
Select Acrobat Annotations
Hold down Control
Press the Credits button
You'll hear a sound (probably a whale) and see the picture of a whale appear. The Credits button should say 'Harpoon' now.
You can repeat as long as you press Control and press on the Harpoon/Credits button.
3Self-Sign Signature
Select the Help menu
Select About Plug-ins
Select Acrobat Annotations
Hold down Control
Press the Credits button
The credits window will break open
The names of the people who worked on the project will pass by
They will Self-Sign the window with their signatures
They wish you good night!
The window will close again.
You can repeat by holding down Control and pressing the credits button.

Delphi

Star Wars intro in version 5
Open the About Delphi dialog.
Hold down the Alt key, while you type JEDI.
Development Team
-In the menu, Click Help_About...
-while holding the ALT key type "team"
a long list of the actual creaters of delphi will scroll down your screen
Hidden Information
1. Make the about box appear by going in Help/About
2. hold the ALT key and at the same time type VERSION (for version number)
3. hold the ALT key and at the same time type AND (for picture of Anders Hejlsberg with a wink)
4. hold the ALT key and at the same time type TEAM(for a list of those responsible for this fine product)
5. hold the ALT key and at the same time type DEVELOPERS (for a list of the R&D folks specifically)
Delphi 6
In about hold down Alt and type one of the following: "team", "jedi", or "quality"

3D Mark

TicTacToe Game in the About Box
1. Run 3D Mark 99
2. Run Result Browser
3. Click on "Help" and select "About Result Browser"
4. Double-click on the free space under the icon
5. A TicTacToe Game appears
6. It has not been tested if this Easter egg runs with earlier releases of 3D Mark too
3DMark 2001 Cow game
On 3Dmark 2001, start a new project, then click the 'edit' button in the 'project' area. Type in "Holy Cow!" without quotes. Then press OK, and click on 'Game demo'. Enjoy!

3D Atlas

3D Waving Flag
1. Go to a country postcard
2. Get the flag displayed large size
3. Option-click on it
4. You get a flag waving in the wind
5. You can wave the pole around with the mouse
6. Arrow Keys control the wind direction
Developers Appear in Country Photos
1. Go to any country postcard
2. Hold down Command and Option and click on any 3. photo in the list
4. See one of the developers overlayed on the photo
5. do the same to another photo
6. get a different developer
7. repeat as long as you like
Hidden Video of Developers Faces
1.Open My Computer
2.Right-click on "TLCOEM2" or whatever your copy is called
3.Click on "Open"
4.Open the AVI folder
5.Open the file called RTTNHEAD
6.If you have Windows Media Player, you will see it. Cool,eh?
 
Agent 97
List of Credits
1.Launch Agent 97 and select the Settings tab.
2.Place the mouse pointer over the Connectix logo
3.Double click (right mouse button) the Agent 97 logo.
4.Greetings from the Agent 97 team will appear.
Dancing Radio Mast
open agent 97
go on groups then properties. (don't use the shortcut)
go to 'when to purge'
check all the boxes and change the value of percent to 55
click OK and then press 26205453702337(when using a mobile phone to type anything, this spells 'bob likes beer'
then press control+Alt+insert and press the radio mast icon on the tool bar
hay presto, all singing all dancing radio mast!!
 

ACT!

Team Photo
1. Run ACT_LOAD.EXE /CHICKEN
2. Dialog opens with a picture of the team.
ACT! 2000 "Special Thanks" list
Under the Help menu, choose About ACT!. If it's ACT! 5.00 or 5.01 then hold Shift+Control and click the Credits tab. For 5.03 hold Shift+Control and click on the logo in the upper left corner of the About window.
This will display a list of the people who developed ACT! 4, not ACT! 2000. This is why I submitted it, the developers for ACT! 2000 didn't notice the easter egg...hehehe

Apple Error Codes

Really New!
1. Start the Apple Error codes 98
2. Click on Job's head
Apple Crash
1. Start the Apple Error codes 98
2. Choose Sad Mac Error Codes
3. Click on the Icon where the arrow is pointing at.
4. Now you here the sound when a Mac crashes

After Dark

All Sorts of Things Swimming
1. Open After Dark 4.0
2. Choose Fish World
3. After screen saver opens, hit CAPS LOCK
4. Fish will run about and a flying toaster will swim
Fish see a Hook
1. Enter After Dark
2. Select the Fish screen saver
3. Press caps lock
4. Watch them run!
Santa Clause
1. Set the date on your computer to Dec. 25
2. Activate the "Voyeur" screen saver
3. Within a moment or two you'll see St. Nick Flying in the background!!
Choose your weapons
Choose the screensaver "Rock,Paper,Scissors" in version 4.0.
Press the "caps-lock" key.
The option to choose to be either R(rock),P(paper),S(scissors) vs. the computer. Once you press the key of the "weapon" of your choice, sit back and watch the short "battle to the death"
Changing Colors
Choose from many screensavers in the 4.0 version and change colors or patterns or backgrounds.
Try pressing the "caps-lock" key while running the following screensavers:
Super Guy--background
Hula Twins--background
Out 'n About--background
Bad Dog--folder locations and content
Swirling Magic,Mandlebrot,Satori,Nirvana--changes colors
Tunnel--toggles the tunnel direction in and out

Adaptec Toast

Credits Sandwich
1. Hold down the "Option" key
2. Pull down the apple menu
3. Select "About Adaptec Toast..."
Extra Menu Items
1. Hold down the alt key
2. Click the bar at the bottom left of the window
3. A new set of options appears
4. Including eyes, moon phases, and the US national debt
Particle Animation Titles and Staff Slide Show
1. Open Adobe Illustrator 6
2. Select About Adobe Illustrator uder Apple Menu
3. Click on the Adobe logo in the splash screen
4. Enjoy the slide show!
5. To see again, you must restart the program
Developer Anagrams
1. Open AI7
2. Option-click on the Venus on top of the toolbox
3. Team members' names appear as anagrams
Debug Window
1. Open Adobe Illustrator 7.0
2. Hold down Ctrl-Alt-Option and 0 "zero" keys
3. You have debug window
Days until Christmas
1. Hold down the option key
2. Click on the "Selection" menu at the bottom of a window
3. Count the days 'til Christmas.

After Effects

See the Real Creators
1. Open Adobe After Effects.
2. While holding down the ALT key, click on the HELP menu and choose "About After Effects."
3. Instead of seeing the standard splash screen, you get a "pretty" looking screen with the developer's names ;-)
Property label change
1. Launch After Effects and create a new project.
2. Create a new composition.
3. Import any type of footage into the project and drag it to the timeline to create a layer, then select it on the timeline.
4. From the menu, choose Layer -> Mask -> New Mask.
5. Work your way down to the "Masks" property on your layer by clicking on the triangles. You should eventually reveal lines that let you control four mask properties: Mask shape, feather, opacity and expansion.
6. Hold down ALT, SHIFT and CONTROL, then click on the words "Mask Expansion" (the label for the property right next to the little stopwatch icon).

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