Tips $ trick windows

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Cheatin' Hearts
If you play Hearts, the game that comes with Windows (called Classic Hearts in Windows Me), this trick will help you win by letting you peek at your opponents' cards.
It requires a clever little Registry tweak and a little knowledge of a certain science fiction classic. (For instructions and precautions for editing Windows' Registry, see www.WE-Compute.com/registry.html.)
In the Registry, make your way to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Applets\Hearts. If you do not have a Hearts key, it's because you have never played it on your system and the Registry has not set one up yet. In that case, play the game once and then go back to the Registry to find this key.
Select the Hearts key and right-click in the pane on the right side of the window. Choose New and String Value from the pop-up menus. Rename the new string ZB - which some fans of the SF novel A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy might recognize as short for the character Zaphod Beeblebrox.
Double-click on the new value to bring up its Edit String dialogue box. In the data field, enter the great answer to the question of life, the universe and everything - at least according to A Hitchhiker's Guide.
You don't know? Okay, the answer is the two-digit number 42. Enter that, click OK, close up the Registry and start Hearts.
During the game, press the Ctrl, Alt, Shift and F12 keys all at once and you'll see everyone's cards.

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