Pre-installed Windows XP games

Ghot said:

They are truly evil.

What they take with one hand, they give with another (albeit browser-based now)...

Microsoft said:

Play against the computer or a live opponent online.

Checkers - MSN Games - Free Online Games

VBF said:

Got it from the Dropbox of @Ghot in the link you posted- thank you kindly

I've replied here as it's a more appropriate thread than where we started our converstion

I assume you mean this one.....

Ghot said:

I found the original XP games and they scan clean both locally and at Virustotal.
I've just uploaded them to Dropbox, and here is the link...

Dropbox - Games.zip - Simplify your life

I've just had a look at that games.zip and compared it with my versions copied direct from an XP machine. The good news is that they all seems to be the originals and are clean.

However, there are some changes/deletions I would suggest.

The Pinball game would have originally been in a Pinball folder on its own. If you'd like to separate it out these are all the files for Pinball.

Code:

G:\>dir "Program Files\Windows NT\Pinball"
 Volume in drive G has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 04D8-88A5

 Directory of G:\Program Files\Windows NT\Pinball

21/09/2012  04:01    <DIR>          .
21/09/2012  04:01    <DIR>          ..
31/03/2003  12:00             3,947 FONT.DAT
31/03/2003  12:00           928,700 PINBALL.DAT
14/04/2008  01:12           281,088 PINBALL.EXE
31/03/2003  12:00           108,607 PINBALL.MID
31/03/2003  12:00            28,888 PINBALL2.MID
31/03/2003  12:00            55,490 SOUND1.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             1,226 SOUND104.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             1,968 SOUND105.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             7,754 SOUND108.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00               890 SOUND111.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00               824 SOUND112.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             4,296 SOUND12.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             8,034 SOUND13.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             1,290 SOUND131.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00            19,282 SOUND136.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             3,002 SOUND14.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             1,046 SOUND16.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             2,090 SOUND17.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             3,986 SOUND18.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00            27,472 SOUND181.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             5,230 SOUND19.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             8,650 SOUND20.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             9,194 SOUND21.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             7,376 SOUND22.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00            12,106 SOUND24.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00            14,600 SOUND240.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00            20,712 SOUND243.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00            25,704 SOUND25.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             7,306 SOUND26.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00            20,242 SOUND27.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             8,650 SOUND28.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00            10,364 SOUND29.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00            22,858 SOUND3.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00            22,570 SOUND30.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00             1,520 SOUND34.WAV
31/03/2003  12:00            19,498 SOUND35.WAV
              36 File(s)      1,706,460 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  10,465,865,728 bytes free

G:\>

There are a lot of files with an extension ending in _, eg pinball.ch_

This extension usually indicates the files are compressed, but not in this case. They have been expanded but have not been renamed. That pinball.ch_ should be renamed to pinball.chm (and moved to the Pinball folder if you decide to make one) then Help will work in Pinball.

All the rest of the *.*_ files are either duplicates (eg. the freecell.ex_/freecell.exe pair) or they are for the defunct MSN Game Zone games (eg. chkrzm.ex_ is the .exe for the (now dead) Checkers game in post #16)

None of the *.hlp files will work in Win10, but as they all have a *.chm twin that's no problem. All the *.*_ and *.hlp files are of no use and can be deleted, in fact they add up to about two thirds of the total file size.

Berton said:

This is the list of the XP Games from my XP computer without the Plus pack installed...

You appear to be missing a couple....

23/08/2001 13:00 15,051 mshearts.chm
23/08/2001 13:00 126,976 mshearts.exe

23/08/2001 13:00 15,071 winmine.chm
23/08/2001 13:00 119,808 winmine.exe

...they're in Goht's games.zip if you want them.