Windows 3.0
Press and hold F3
Type the four characters WIN3
Release F3
Hit the backspace key
The display can be cleared by pressing the left mouse button.
Windows 3.1
Source: Tom Tanida
- Hold down Cntl and Shift simultaneously (keep holding them down for all of the following steps).
- Select Program Manager's Help menu option, and select "About Program Manager".
- When the box pops up, double click inside one of the four panes in the Windows 3.1 logo.
- Click OK.
- Repeat steps 2-4 to see a flag waving.
Repeat steps 2-4 again to see the credits. (Is that a picture of Bill Gates there? :-) )
(Note: my tests indicate that if you try this a third time you'll get nothing; try it a fourth time and you're back at the waving flag. jcm)
The display terminates immediately when the OK button is pressed (step 4).
Some followup to the Windows 3.1 egg, from contributions by:
Mark Scase
Jill Patterson
JT Anderson
Andrew Turner
You don't have to be in Program Manager to do this. It seems to work in any "About" box of an application provided with Windows 3.1 (eg file manager, write, paintbrush, clock etc).
The character appearing in the graphic with the name scroll changes each time you see it; there are four distinct figures:
a bald man (Steve Ballmer)
a man with a beard and dark hair (Brad Silverberg),
a man with glasses and fair hair (Bill Gates), and
a Teddy bear...apparently the logo of bugs@microsoft
The Bear is a Microsoft euphemism for someone who comes along and bonks programmers for introducing bugs into test code(as in Smokey the Bear, who crushes your butts). The concept of the Bear is so much a part of debugging at Microsoft that certain, undcoumented functions used for testing Windows components such as USER.EXE are named things like Bear351."
Windows 3.0 Wallpaper
Michael Lorengo
Hold Down F3
Type WIN3
Release F3
Press Backspace