Cool Spider Solitaire trick(Works in Vista+ game,even 5219)

[ovctvct]

Open spidersolitaire.exe with resource hacker.
Expand menu, then 102. Replace the content with this:

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102 MENU
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
{
POPUP "&Game"
{
	MENUITEM "&New Game\tF2",  40001
	MENUITEM SEPARATOR
	MENUITEM "&Undo\tCtrl+Z",  40011
	MENUITEM "&Hint\tH",  40012
	MENUITEM SEPARATOR
	MENUITEM "&Statistics\tF4",  40003
	MENUITEM "&Options\tF5",  40004
	MENUITEM "Change &Appearance\tF7",  40002
	MENUITEM SEPARATOR
	POPUP "Change Card Deck"
	{
		MENUITEM "Classic Deck",  64952
		MENUITEM "Hearts Deck",  64953
		MENUITEM "Seasons Deck",  64954
		MENUITEM "Large Print Deck",  64958
	}
	POPUP "Change Background"
	{
		MENUITEM "Classic Felt",  64955
		MENUITEM "Red Hearts",  64956
		MENUITEM "Green Nature",  64957
		MENUITEM "Red Felt",  40049
		MENUITEM "Brown Felt",  40050
	}
	MENUITEM SEPARATOR
	MENUITEM "E&xit",  40005
}
POPUP "&Help"
{
	MENUITEM "&View Help\tF1",  40008
	MENUITEM "&About Spider Solitaire",  40007
	MENUITEM SEPARATOR
	MENUITEM "Get &More Games Online",  40015
}
POPUP "Debug"
{
	MENUITEM "Force Save",  40021
	MENUITEM "Force Load",  40022
	MENUITEM SEPARATOR
	MENUITEM "Delete Settings",  40024
	MENUITEM SEPARATOR
	MENUITEM "Show Idle Tip",  40034
	MENUITEM SEPARATOR
	MENUITEM "Toggle debug keys",  40032
	MENUITEM "Win",  40036
	MENUITEM "Lose",  40037
	MENUITEM SEPARATOR
	MENUITEM "AutoPlay",  40038
	MENUITEM "AutoPlay + WaitOnAnimations",  40040
	MENUITEM "Disable Autoplay",  40042
	MENUITEM "Toggle Dialogs (allows infinite autoplay)",  40044
	MENUITEM "Toggle Hint Rankings Display",  40045
	MENUITEM "Toggle Allow Any Move",  40046
}
}

Click Compile Script and save the file. Open the game and you'll see a Debug menu. You can force a win, let the PC autoplay the game etc.

[betaluva]

thanks but why not share the modified file?

[Winutiae]

All the updated classic Windows games have debug menus, they all have autoplay too. AFAIR they appear by default in checked builds, but not free since the code to turn them on is compiled out.

Spider's autoplay is particularly amusing though. Usually if it gets stuck, it starts again. However, if it gets close to winning and gets stuck, it rage quits and goes home. There's a video of it here for the particularly curious.