Tests Part III, and a Microsoft Easter Egg

Posted by Tasm on June 14, 2006, 2:24 p.m.

Yup, today I took my third final in a row, global history. Had to write two freaking essays. The stupid part though, was when I got to the school. My teacher told me the test started at noon. I got to school about 10 minutes before noon, but everyone at the front I had to hurry because they already started. So I start freaking out, run to the test area and find that they had just begun giving instructions. WOW GOD FORBID I MISS THE INSTRUCTIONS!!! I totally have NEVER heard them before. Then my teacher says she just turned in my attendance card saying I wasn't there. Good job to her.

Anyway, a while back my friend found and told me about what he calls a 'Microsoft Easter Egg.' What you have to do is open MS Paint, and either draw something or open a file(so you can tell how far you are zoomed in). Then zoom in to 8x. After that, hit the magnifying glass again, and move the mouse cursor about 1-2 pixels underneath the blue highlight of 8x and click. You will find that you have zoomed in to 10x. Useless, but weird nontheless.

Comments

Kaz 18 years, 5 months ago

Damn, you just reminded me I have an English and Math regents tomorrow, screw you.

The MS Paint thing doesnt work on MEs.

hobomonkeyc 18 years, 5 months ago

Finals suck lol

2 more for me, but ones PE so it dosent count :P

gl with your finals

Tasm 18 years, 5 months ago

Quote: kaz
The MS Paint thing doesnt work on MEs

Sorry, it must a be a Windows XP easter egg

contrendo 18 years, 5 months ago

nice easter egg! im going to tell my friend!

Polystyrene Man 18 years, 5 months ago

Another "easter egg" with paint: Open up a new canvas (and draw something if you wish), then take out the magnifying glass. Don't press the zoom buttons, hold the magnifying glass over the canvas so that you can see the box. Press, and there you have it: 4x zoom! Absolutely amazing.

Tasm 18 years, 5 months ago

Heh, never noticed that one. Would it have been so hard for Microsoft to just add these zoom levels?

Polystyrene Man 18 years, 5 months ago

In a word: Yes.

SleepinJohnnyFish 18 years, 5 months ago

You want a cool Microsoft Easter Egg? <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=excel+2000+spy+hunter&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-web-t403&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8">Excel 2000 hidden Spy Hunter game</a>

shadowstrike32 18 years, 5 months ago

Open a new notepad document, on the desktop, and name it anything you want.

then type in 'bush hid the facts' (no quotes)

save and close the notepad file

open it again

WTF?