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figured out how to play solitaire during the windows 10 setup

a screenshot of a virtual machine showing a finished game of solitaire running within the windows 10 setup
May 27, 2023, 01:36 AM·Public
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oh holy crap i didn't expect this to blow up so much

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help im not used to posts gaining this much traction

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@inkling it's always fun fucking around with operating system setups, once while installing ubuntu i got bored, but i chose the option to install without trying first, so i figured out i could open firefox by clicking a link on the slideshow that plays while installing, from there i could download a file and click on the "show in folder" option to open the file manager, then i could right click in any folder and pick the "open terminal here" option and fuck around as much as i wanted, it was pretty fun
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@mjdxp @inkling wait can't you just open the terminal in the "try now" option of the live image and then open thei nstaller from that
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@inkling wait how
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@tusooa ok so basically i copied sol.exe (and cards.dll, because solitaire wont run without it) from a 64-bit installation of windows xp (it wouldnt work for some reason if i copied from 32-bit xp) to a floppy disk image, then mounted said disk image on my windows 10 vm

then i booted into setup, pressed shift+f10 to get to a command prompt and ran a:\sol.exe

hopefully i did a good enough job explaining this; if not, oh well

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@inkling @tusooa not "some reason", just because Win10PE doesn't have WoW64 for running 32bit binaries.
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@roytam1 ah ok

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@inkling quick, say something all the trans people will think is cute while you have their attention

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@lunacb uhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh girls… pretty…

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@inkling If this is real you're my new hero. I've bypassed many full-screen setups to do other things but never from the boot phase.

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@redrummy yep, it's real!

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@inkling can this please be part of setup? I really like installers that let me play a game or two while I wait for the operating system to install.

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@koyu@cutebox.cc @inkling@tech.lgbt

How... How isn't this a thing already...

Quick someone make a pinball, solitaire, and Minesweeper part of some distros install image

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@inkling Shift+F10, sol.exe ?

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@jernej__s yeah

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