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5 windows 10 Easter Eggs and Secrets you Can seek Out

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Microsoft has a long and entertaining history of hiding easter eggs, secret games and other oddities in its operating systems. Who can forget Hall of Tortured Souls in Microsoft Office in Windows 95, or Pinball in Word 97? Windows 10 isn’t quite as playful as previous iterations, phasing easter eggs out since it began its Trustworthy Computing Initiative in 2002. But there are still a few hidden surprises here and there. Here are our favorite easter eggs and secrets hiding in Windows  10. 1. Doom’s Dedicated Port It took a few years for the hit first-person shooter Doom to come to Windows platforms, but when it did there was a whole load of fuss about it. The game was called Doom 95, and in a classic bit of banter from the Id Software developers, they assigned 666 as the game’s network port. Amazingly, port 666 is still assigned to Doom by default in Windows 10 to this day, in honor of the seminal demon-blasting game. Go to “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc,” then open the file “service