Poll: Weird Windows Easter Egg

[Xirema]

So I'm sure some of you have seen/heard of this before, but for those of you that haven't, there is a weird sound byte located on Windows machines that doesn't seem to get used anywhere, and it... well, here's how you get to it:

My Computer --> C:\Windows\media\onestop.mid (replace C:\ with whatever drive you installed windows on, if not C)

You guys heard this before? Also, anyone know of any other weird easter eggs of that nature?

 

[Olikunmissile]

Ah onestop. Good times were had by all.

Yes there are some others, can't remember any though, something about MS office and a peice of code to make it type something about a swift brown fox that jumps or something.

 

[Blights]

Haha, that's awesome. Never heard of that before.

 

[Phishfood]

Ah onestop. Good times were had by all.

Yes there are some others, can't remember any though, something about MS office and a peice of code to make it type something about a swift brown fox that jumps or something.

The swift brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?

Its the shortest sentence to use every letter in the alphabet or some such, used to showcase a font.

 

[fenrizz]

That's almost spooky.

But now I must find out why it is there!

 

[Akytalusia]

hmm. interesting. no i've never heard of this before.

 

[Olikunmissile]

Ah onestop. Good times were had by all.

Yes there are some others, can't remember any though, something about MS office and a peice of code to make it type something about a swift brown fox that jumps or something.

The swift brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?

Its the shortest sentence to use every letter in the alphabet or some such, used to showcase a font.

Indeed, but in one Windows Office package there was a line of code you could type which would produce this sentance as many times as you want.

 

[DEAD34345]

Weird, I actually only got told about this a couple of days ago. It is kind of weird, but apparently it's some kind of tradition that's been on all the versions of Windows. That's what my friend told me about it, anyway.

 

[zad1212]

Ah onestop. Good times were had by all.

Yes there are some others, can't remember any though, something about MS office and a peice of code to make it type something about a swift brown fox that jumps or something.

The swift brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?

Its the shortest sentence to use every letter in the alphabet or some such, used to showcase a font.

The sentence is The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
I remember reading about onestop a while ago, and it was one of the coolest things ever.

 

[n00beffect]

hah, awesome, never heard it before

 

[William MacKay]

never heard of it before now. why? what does it do?

captcha: rrdite hedgehog. am i the only one still getting randomcrap?

 

[Andrew_Mac]

I first heard about it cos of this.

 

[Andrew_Mac]

Ah onestop. Good times were had by all.

Yes there are some others, can't remember any though, something about MS office and a peice of code to make it type something about a swift brown fox that jumps or something.

The swift brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?

Its the shortest sentence to use every letter in the alphabet or some such, used to showcase a font.

The sentence is The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
I remember reading about onestop a while ago, and it was one of the coolest things ever.

I always heard it as
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

 

[Sleekgiant]

In case you are to lazy to find onestop, watch this story with it:

 

[GrindBass]

Yep heard about it a while back - I'd forgotten where exactly it was tho. There's also a couple of easter eggs in firefox - type about:robots or about:mozilla into the address bar

 

[Lilitu]

There where "flourish" and "town" too, they also seemed quite out of place...

btw: I didn't know about "onestop" before.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

There where "flourish" and "town" too, they also seemed quite out of place...

btw: I didn't know about "onestop" before.

"Flourish" is actually used in the DirectX Diagnosis Tool whenever you diagnose the MIDI music channels.

I seem to remember there being an in-joke about this teddy bear .exe file connected to plushies the Microsoft workers had - a small one called 16-bit and a big one called 32-bit or something like that.

In one of the versions of Windows there was also a playable first-person Maze game (not the screensaver).

 

[DanielBrown]

Awesome! Found another media file underneath it called Town that's also a full song!

 

[Fooz]

haha wtf, its actually really good