3D Text Screen Saver

At one time the 3D text Screen Saver had some cool tricks that depended upon your choice of words. If you typed in 'Beer', 'Volcano', or 'rock' you had a selection of things come up in the screen saver that meant something to the developers. Windows 2000 threw this Easter Egg out, but left a treasure behind. If you're using Windows2000 you have the opportunity to inflict your personality on this screen saver. To get your own selection of words appearing you need to do the following:

1. Open Regedit and search for the string HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Screen Saver.3DText
2. Create a new String Value called Magic
3. Enter a value for it which will be the name of the file you want to use (e.g. c:\winnt\magic.txt)
4. Create the file (c:\winnt\magic.txt) using notepad. The format is as follows:
   -Test
   blah
   deedum
   hello
   n00b
   
   

Important - The first word must be preceded by a hyphen as this is used to designate a group of words. It is this word that you must enter into the 3D Text screensaver 'textbox'. When you run the screensaver you will get a random showing af all the words under the hyphened word in the text file. You can add more sections to the text file (again give each section a hyphened keyword to use in the screen saver dialogue box).