Windows XP Easter Egg - Pinball Mouse Control (not an egg)

This is a cool egg if youare rubbish at microsoft pinball or just want to make your friends know that you rule. This is how to do it:

Press start, All programs, games, Pinball.

When you are in pinball wait until the ball appears ahd then type in 'hidden test' without the quotes. if you have not mispelt this then you should be able to hold the mouse button and control the ball with the mouse.

Windows XP Easter Egg - Candy Cane Pipes

Egg Body
OK Here Goes.
1.Go to Display Properties
2.Click the Screen saver tab then Click 3D Pipes 3.Click Settings
4.Click Textured
5.Click Choose Texture
6.Click Cancel.
7.Click OK on the Screen Saver Setup
Now The Pipes
should be Candy Cane Colored!

Windows XP Easter Egg - Updated Rainbow

I believe this goes under the "Vanity" clause; my theory (I can't tell since I'm *not* a programmer) is that they wanted to differentiate between the last "home user" version of Windows (ME) and XP. I happened to notice the difference when I tried the original "volcanoes" egg and didn't get a single name of an actual volcano! To see the "updated" rainbow:

1. Open up the Display controls panel. You can find this in two ways:
a. Go to Control Panel, then double-click on the "Display" entry/icon, or
b. Right-click anywhere on your desktop that is _not_ covered by an icon and click on "Properties".
(Both of these will get you to the exact same place; just use one or the other.)

2. Click on the "Screen Savers" tab, then scroll to "3D Text".

3. Click on the Settings button and tweak the settings this way:

Text: either (although the time will show this off better, IMO)
Rotation: Any (Spin or Tumble recommended)
Surface Style: Here's where the similarity is. It's the same as the one for Windows 98SE (http://www.eeggs.com/items/1959.html) that Nikolas wrote about (just scroll down after clicking the above link for his entry). *Please remember to close the textures window by clicking on the "abort" (the small x in the upper right-hand corner) and NOT the "ok" button!*
You can tweak the rest of the settings as you wish. Be sure to hit "OK" after setting things up or this won't work!

4. Hit the "preview" button to see the new rainbow! (On some machines, the preview window in the tab is too small to view this properly.)