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How to Find Hidden Music in Windows XP

36 Responses (Add) | Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 at 12:55am

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During our GoToMeeting last week, EvilHomer decided to show us how to access a hidden music file within Windows XP. Let’s follow along, and see what we discover!

First, make sure your hidden files and folders are set to show. To do this:

Click “My Computer” to open an Explorer window
Select Tools menu, and click on Folder Options
Click the View tab
Under the Hidden Files and Folders heading, select “Show hidden files and folders”
Uncheck the “hide protected operating systems files” options
Uncheck the “Hide file extensions for known file types” box
Click “yes” to confirm, then click “ok”

Ok, now that we’ve done that, let’s find that music!

Click again on My Computer to open the Explorer window
Open the Windows folder
Open the System32 folder
Open the OOBE (Out of Box Experience) folder
Open the Images folder
Locate and open in your media player the file Title

Ah-hah! That’s the sound you hear when you first set up Windows XP… which may have been just the other day?

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36 Comments

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November 13th, 2007
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November 13th, 2007
at 9:04am

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SocioBiblog

November 13th, 2007
at 9:04am

How to Find Hidden Music in Windows XP(Chris Pirillo )

nyro81

November 16th, 2007
at 4:15am

cool, so cool, i always wanted that song on windows start up, thanks

STELHEAD

November 16th, 2007
at 6:55am

cooooooooool.

cesarsony124

November 16th, 2007
at 11:32am

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FOBGirl921

November 18th, 2007
at 8:26am

It actually IS hidden because you have to search though files you can’t acess to unless you edit that so you can.

mehmonkeys

November 18th, 2007
at 8:05pm

It’s a good tip but for some reason I could already access that song through Windows Media player guess if you set it to search your entire system it will find it…

joeninja26

November 20th, 2007
at 12:33pm

how do you get the leapord theme???

BornTriggerHappy

November 20th, 2007
at 8:22pm

Internet

joeninja26

November 21st, 2007
at 12:43am

i figured … i hate dl things

earthman3021

November 26th, 2007
at 1:53pm

PANTHER…

Matt

November 30th, 2007
at 2:08am

This is not an easter egg.
The music must be there for it to be able to play when you first install windows xp.
Its not there as a secret, so you realy need to spend more time with your computer.