You'll like this.

On your Windows Vista machine, launch a command prompt as administrator.  Navigate to the windows\system32 folder and type:

ribbons.scr /p65552

Enjoy

Dave

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Dan, I never introduced this as an easter egg - merely as 'something you'd like'.  I guess I was refering to what is now DreamScene (but wasn't allowed to mention at the time).. Dave.

• Anonymous
  December 02, 2006
  It also works with other screensavers!..i think /p65552 will disable mouseclick or mousemover events!! posted some pics at http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=518025&st=0&gopid=588102464&

• Anonymous
  December 02, 2006
  It's not an easter egg. /p is the flag used to tell the screen saver to use an existing hwnd instead of creating a new hwnd.  (It's how screen savers show up in the little "monitor" picture in the Display control panel.) 65552 happens to often times be the hwnd of the desktop on a Vista machine, so the screen saver runs in the desktop. The reason mouseover doesn't dismiss it should be obvious if you consider the reason for this flag existing is for it to run in the Display control panel...

• Anonymous
  December 02, 2006
  Great find.  I'll try it out right now.

• Anonymous
  December 03, 2006
  Thanks Jensen - always nice to know how/why things work.  I still think it's pretty neat though..

• Anonymous
  December 03, 2006
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• Anonymous
  December 03, 2006
  Do you want a cookie? This has been known about for months.

• Anonymous
  April 10, 2007
  How boring. I am sorry, but there have been much better easter eggs than that one in the past. Surley that is more of a feature that can be used to do other things rather than a deliberate easter egg. I think the best one so far in a windows OS is the ASCII Star Wars film in telnet in XP. Tha was brilliant.

• Anonymous
  September 25, 2007
  hehe this is not a real easter egg but the guy must have had trouble with hackers. try telnet justcamming.com 8180 type in anything and press enter Oh and dont do it if you are easily offended

• Anonymous
  October 04, 2007
  The comment has been removed

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  November 02, 2007
  How do you UNDO this? I'm having all sorts of visual artifacts and problems after I've run this. Even after rebooting.

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