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Easter egg in Windows XP… “Sometime this millennia”

A funny easter egg I recently came across in Windows XP, relating to files created in the future:

  1. Set your system clock to a date in the future (something far in the future; eg December 2030).
  2. Create a new file (anything, a blank text document will do).
  3. Set the system clock back to the real date.
  4. Open the directory containing the newly-created file.
  5. Choose the View → Arrange Icons By → Modified option.
  6. Tick View → Arrange Icons → Show in Groups.
  7. Look at the group heading of the newly-created file:
    Windows XP Easter Egg - “Sometime This Millenia”

Of course, that should be “Millenium”… Millennia is plural :P


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This entry was posted on Sunday, November 4th, 2007 at 2:08 pm and is filed under Computers, Easter eggs, Windows. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Easter egg in Windows XP… “Sometime this millennia””

  1. Ruslan Abuzant Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 3:19 pm

    Yeah nice, but that’s not new.

    Thanks yet for sharing,
    JFYI: see http://sillydog.org/forum/sdt_8526.php for more details (PS> not my site)

  2. Daniel15 Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    Thanks for your comment :)
    I knew that someone would have discovered this before, but I couldn’t find anything useful in Google. Thanks for the link :)

  3. Easter Articles » Blog Archive » Easter egg in Windows XP… “Sometime this millenia” Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 6:47 pm

    [...] Original post by Daniel15 [...]

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