Big Booger
September 23rd, 2006, 02:10 AM
Trick Still Works on Vista
There was a trick during the Windows XP install, where if you got bored (and wanted to play pinball) or needed to minipulate or find files on your disk, you could press F10 and get a cmd.exe prompt. You could then do all kind of command line activities.
Well this works also on the Vista RC1 install.
To play pinball on the Windows XP install, the commands would be:
SHIFT-F10 for command prompt
cd \
cd "Program Files"
cd "Windows NT"
cd Pinball
pinball.exe
I did not see pinball copied over during the Vista install, so not sure if you can play it, but you can play anything you can launch from the command line.
Neat.
There was a trick during the Windows XP install, where if you got bored (and wanted to play pinball) or needed to minipulate or find files on your disk, you could press F10 and get a cmd.exe prompt. You could then do all kind of command line activities.
Well this works also on the Vista RC1 install.
To play pinball on the Windows XP install, the commands would be:
SHIFT-F10 for command prompt
cd \
cd "Program Files"
cd "Windows NT"
cd Pinball
pinball.exe
I did not see pinball copied over during the Vista install, so not sure if you can play it, but you can play anything you can launch from the command line.
Neat.