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About Minesweeper
About Solitaire
About Freecell
About 3D Pinball
Additional Windows XP games
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Technical Support

About minesweeper

Windows Minesweeper is a software game which is included in all versions of Microsoft Windows. The object of the game is for the user to locate each of the mines and safely mark the mines by clicking on the appropriate box with the right mouse button. If all boxes are cleared except for the ones containing the mines the user wins the game.

About solitaire

Windows Solitaire is just like the classic real life card game. The object of the game is to go through a deck of cards and arrange the randomized cards in order by suit starting with each of the Ace cards all the way up to the king. The player starts off with seven stacks of cards, the first stack with one card, second stack with two cards, etc. as the player goes through each of the seven stacks and the primary stack of card they must stack each of the cards in order.

About FreeCell

Windows FreeCell is a card game that is similar to Solitaire where all cards are randomly placed into eight piles. The user must organize those piles by suit starting with the Ace card and going up to the king. To organize the piles you move one card to either another pile or one of the four available slots in the top left hand side of the window.

About 3D pinball

Windows 3D Pinball is a simple Pinball game included with Microsoft Windows 2000 and above. In this version of 3D Pinball the user can play the Space Cadet pinball table.

To play, press, hold, and let go the space bar on your keyboard to shoot the ball out into the table and use the 'z' key to control the left paddle and the '/' key to control the right paddle. If the ball get stuck you can press the 'x' key to bump the table to get the ball free.

Additional Windows XP games

In addition to the Microsoft Windows games already mentioned on this page Microsoft Windows XP also includes Hearts, Spider Solitaire, Internet Backgammon, Internet Checkers, Internet Hearts, Internet Reversi, and Internet Spades. In order to play any of the Internet windows games you must have Internet access and be connected to it.

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Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows NT
Windows 2000

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Cheats

Solitaire

If playing DRAW THREE:
Hold down Ctrl + Alt + Shift and click on the deck to draw single cards.

Minesweeper

There is an indicator hidden on the screen that will tell you whether a space is safe. To allow this indicator to be visible follow the below steps. These instructions will work with all versions of Microsoft Windows.

Open Microsoft Minesweeper.

Type "xyzzy" without the quotes.

Press and hold Enter and Shift at the same time.

Minimize all windows except Minesweeper, as you move your mouse cursor over each of the squares in minesweeper you should notice the first pixel on the top left portion of the screen change to black. It helps if your windows wallpaper is white because the pixel will change to black. Keep in mind that this is only a single pixel, which is very small and may be hard or impossible for some users to see.

If you want to have the highest score or change someone else's score you can actually modify the scores by going into DOS and typing in "edit c:\windows\winmine.ini" this should take you to a blue screen with white text you should see something similar to the below. These steps only work for early versions of Microsoft Windows such as Microsoft Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows 98.

[Minesweeper]
Difficulty=0
Height=8
Width=8
Mines=10
Mark=1
Color=1
Xpos=194
Ypos=97
Time1=312
Time2=223
Time3=121
Name1=Hope
Name2=Hope
Name3=Hope
The time1,2,3 is for the name1,2,3 so for example, if you wanted to make your name #1 with the time 1 you would change Name1 to your name and Time1 to 1.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Solitaire

How to install / uninstall Solitaire.

If you are missing Solitaire in Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP to reinstall the application go to Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-remove Programs / click the tab that says "Windows setup" / double-click on the accessories icon / check the games icon / click ok / click apply, if the icon is checked uncheck it and then say ok then apply then do the above steps.

Running Solitaire Manually

If you are unable to find the icon or not sure if it is installed after following the above steps click Start / Run / and type "sol" without the quotes.

Windows 3.0 and 3.1 Solitaire F1 key for help does not work.

This is a known issue with Solitaire in Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1x. Instead of using the F1 key choose the help from the drop down menu or press ALT + H.

Receive Solitaire has caused a general protection fault in WSPDBF.DRV at 001:0F38.

This is caused when the computer is using the Diamond Speedstar 24x 256k video driver ver 2.02 in Windows 3.1 and 3.11. To resolve the issue it is recommend that you use the Standard VGA video drivers supplied with Windows 3.1x.

Minesweeper

How to install / uninstall Minesweeper.

If you are missing Solitaire in Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP to reinstall the application go to Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-remove Programs / click the tab that says "Windows setup" / double-click on the accessories icon / check the games icon / click ok / click apply, if the icon is checked uncheck it and then say ok then apply then do the above steps.

Running Minesweeper Manually

If you are unable to find the icon or not sure if it is installed after following the above steps click Start / Run / and type "winmine" without the quotes.

Minesweeper has moved off the screen and I am unable to move it.

This is caused by the winmine.ini setting the inappropriate settings after the skill settings have been changed. To resolve the issue click Start / Find / search for winmine.ini. Once this file is located delete the file and restart Windows Minesweeper.

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