computer pranks

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spazz31585

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figured i'd make a thread for all of our favorite computer pranks to pull on people.

like taking a screenshot of the desktop, saving it and then setting that as the desktop. set the taskbar to the very bottom of the screen (not autohide though), and disable the icons on the desktop. done that to my wife and she restarted the computer about 5 times. i couldn't take it any longer and just busted out laughing.

and then of course, the classic taking the ball out of the mouse(granted it's not an optical mouse)

and, if you're at a place you work with computers and there's a lot of computers around each other, you can always do like i did. swap mouse cables from one system to the one next to it. if your companies computer cables get tangled up like most do, the person on the computer will probably look at the back, see a mouse cable plugged in, and have no idea that it's not theirs
 
the best thing i ever did was i went into my ms word settings and changed it so that whenever the word "the" was typed it changed to the word monkey. so then my sister went on to type an essay for school. IT WAS THE FUNNIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. she was smacking the keyboard and getting really mad. it was a school essay so she said "the" like a million times, so it all the "the" s where replaced with monkey. It was so funny
 
yea, but it's funnier to do that and make it more subtle.

set I = i, the = teh, window = winder, ect.....
 
I traded my AMD K2 400MHz for a P3 Coppermine 900MHz straight up, that was pretty funny.

I also convinced my friend his Dell Inspiron (P3 Tualatin 866MHz) was fried, when infact the video card just needed new drivers (corrupt drivers/no display) Took it home, safe mode and re-install of everything and Bam free laptop. I laughed. But then a friend bought it off me for $100...so the joke was on me. I could have gotten ~$400 on eBay at the time. :(
 
spamdos said:
i OCed my ppc
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:o Me as well...was it with pockethackmaster or a similiar program?!?! 300MHz to 400MHz made my PPC a paperweight for about 10 mins lmao. Thought I fried it. But a hardreset did the trick after it cooled down. I hate Dell.
 
the best thing i ever did was i went into my ms word settings and changed it so that whenever the word "the" was typed it changed to the word monkey. so then my sister went on to type an essay for school. IT WAS THE FUNNIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. she was smacking the keyboard and getting really mad. it was a school essay so she said "the" like a million times, so it all the "the" s where replaced with monkey. It was so funny
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LMAO!!!! I'll have to try that on my sisters comp when she gets back from college. She'd probably kill me though lol... :D
 
about that wallpaper thing mentioned in the first post. i'd love to do it but i don't know how to disable the desktop icons.
 
Right-Click Desktop > Arrange Icons By > Uncheck "Show Desktop Icons"

It might take a second, but they dissapear. Do it again to make them re-appear.
 
the ms word thing is funny as hell...i'll have to try that on my wife...i think i'll do like suggested afterwords though, make it more reasonable.
my wife is pregnant and she feels the baby is making her stupid and forgetful...and i'm always pickin on her about her typing/spelling anyways
this is gonna be great!
 
i wrote a ghost app when i was a kid, i would run in thebackground and do loads of stuff randomly.
Anything copied to the clip board in text would be reversed, or rude words placed in the middle of sentences.
It would clip the mouse to small area in the middle of the screen.
It would type ghostly letters out on the screen when the user was typing; things like "i see you"
And it would play very soft spooky noised through the speakers (didn't always work too well, at the time i could get the call for volume to work)

I have probably still got the app somewhere, in vb i think
 
apj101 said:
i wrote a ghost app when i was a kid, i would run in thebackground and do loads of stuff randomly.
Anything copied to the clip board in text would be reversed, or rude words placed in the middle of sentences.
It would clip the mouse to small area in the middle of the screen.
It would type ghostly letters out on the screen when the user was typing; things like "i see you"
And it would play very soft spooky noised through the speakers (didn't always work too well, at the time i could get the call for volume to work)

I have probably still got the app somewhere, in vb i think
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if you find it, could you e-mail it to me or post link here, cause i'd really like to see that work. lol
 
Fake virus thing

this is relativly simple... run it on a batch file and edit from notepad...

@echo off
echo Hello welcome to this game just press any button so we can continue
pause
calc
mshearts
explorer
explorer
explorer
explorer
explorer
mshearts
mshearts
mshearts
mshearts
mshearts
explorer
explorer
sol
sol
sol
sol
shutdown -s -t 450 -c "WARNING: WE HAVE TAKEN OVER YOUR COMPUTER: THIS IS A VIRUS =) =) =) =) we just need to shutdown your computer fist, so bear with us as we slowly take control -thank you"
explorer
explorer


it is pretty cool and simple as hell...any idiot who can't use the computer will think it is a virus and it is pretty annoying.
 
put a picture as the desktop, that a lot of people cant seem to get rid of.

right click on the desktop, and then go to properties>desktop>customize desktop>web then click new.

Change the file type or w/e at the bottom to all files (or just pictures) and then find a picture on the computer, and apply it.

Half of the picture will show on the right side...its really annoying (specially if they have their own background that they like)
 
LOL, you can take a screenshot of the victim's desktop, crop the task bar, then apply it. Then delete ALL the real shortcuts off the screen. The unexpected user will try to double click the desktop background. :D:D:D:D:D This prank only works with novices though. :P:P:P
 
LOL you can put that in the startup folder. Hilarious, thanks for the idea, I did that to someone, I was rolling on the floor laughing.
 
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