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Play pinball while Windows installs
by Jordan Running Apr 27th 2006 at 12:05AM
Too lazy to make an unattended XP
install disc but don't want to stare at nothing but progress bars while it installs? Turns out it's easy to run
Pinball, Minesweeper, or Solitaire while the Windows XP setup grinds along. User Boofis on the Whirlpool forums
explains: "You just have to wait until the right moment the pinball files are copied. Sometime after where it asks
you for the product key and a question or two after that, where it says 'copying files'." Then you can press Shift
F10 to get the command prompt, navigate to the appropriate folder, and run your game. Head over to the forum thread for the full
instructions.[Via Digg]
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Michael said 4:25PM on 6-18-2006
I wonder if you waited long enough this trick would work with internet explorer providing you had a standard ethernet card (i.e. no wireless or evdo or anything)
and the drivers were copied I dont see why not.
start iexplore.exe http://getfirefox.com (haha,get it as early as you can)
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