What are some of the pc jokes you have done on people?

[mc^^^^]

What are some of the pc jokes you have done on people?

eg: To take a screenshot of a friends desktop then set it as his desktop wallpaper, remove all his desktop icons, move my computer etc of the scrren so they arnt visible. then make the taskbar 0 lines big and adjust his screen so the little line left isnt visible.
whatching him smack his pc for 30 minuts cause it would lockup on every boot was hilarious!

[insomniac]

using a cracker to get all of my friends passwords on aol...actually,this joke is in the process of being finished...ive been looking at their email for the past year now,and they still have no idea what i`m doing...

[Xerxes]

Chromium, thats a classic!

Here's a simple one-
Once I found a .wav file of a woman screaming... it was just awful. So when my brother was away from his PC I put it as his startup sound, changed his Wall Paper to Edvard Munch's "The Scream" and oh yeah, put all his sound and volume settings to full


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[Xerxes]

Insomniac, are you aware that Eavesdropping is a crime?

[Bizznatch]

I sent my borther the "worksucks" link a few times, other than that I've never pulled anything exciting yet.

PS. my brother deserves it.

[insomniac]

yeh,i know,but these dudes deserve it

[Curi0us_George]

Originally posted by Insomniac7891
. . . my friends . . .

. . . these dudes deserve it

Hmm, you need new friends.

No, really. Microwave the Windows CD. Microwaves are completely safe for thr CD, but clean fingerprints off perfectly.

[I have a huge]

My son downloaded RealPlayer on my PC.
The joke was on me

[greedy_lars]

lets see

back when people were still running windows 95 knew this cool trick, shift right click on the start button and you would get the option to close it. went around work closing everyones start button.

and cant count the times ive changed

shell=explorer.exe to shell=sol.exe or shell=calc.exe

makes for a powerful solitare game to be sure

[mc^^^^]

Originally posted by greedy_lars


and cant count the times ive changed

shell=explorer.exe to shell=sol.exe or shell=calc.exe

makes for a powerful solitare game to be sure

what does that do? make the shell interface b all screwed up or load calculator when booting instead or explorer?


Also, going on ppl desktops and changing the icons and names all around so they click "my computer" and "recylc bin" opens, they click "winamp" and "outlook" opens. hehehe

[Rocker]

I accesed an Admin acount on my mates PC and moved all his MP3's to a different folder.....made the mp3 folder private to the admin account(not his own)

then deleted all his M3U's lmao


changed the background

moved all the icons

then i went home

(all this happened when he was at work)

[ujay]

Just turning off the brightness and contrast can take a surprisingly long time to figure out sometimes. I know I was that man.

This sort of thing is childish and so unnecessary, Windows has more than enough ways of ruining your day without any outside intervention.

UJ

[Bilbo Baggins]

Some of youare really stupid. Especially you Insomniac. Like Xerxes said, Eavesdropping is a serious crime. I almost hope that you do go to jail.

Let me ask you a question. Have any of you been on the receiving end of a computer prank? I have, and they are not funny or nice.

[mc^^^^]

ya give some ya get some, its all in good humor, as long as you tell them b4 they do something major!

[fish]

As long as you have half a brain cell in operation, some of these you should be able to figure out real easily (ujay =D)

[Ikyoto]

Turn a NT machine into a dual boot Linux machine, disable the script for the display (just get rid of the "echo") and have it drop a Windows fanatic into the worst interface I could devise in Gnome...

...and mae it look as MUCH like Mac OS9 as I possibly could.

And then spike his speakers to full volume and have the initial boot load the infamous "Hey everybody! I'm looking at PORN over here!" wav.

Why do this you might ask?

I was the network admin for a small development firm and simpley asked that if people were going to use tools, software ro anything else from my desk that they leave me a note so I knew where it was. He hot-glued everything on my desk in place... EVERY thing! Every scrap of paper, every pen, every Lego! What I did was easily reversed, but he actually cost me money replacing a 80-200 zoom lens when th ehot glue seped into the rings.

So.. stupid? A little, but it was a less destructive thing than taking him to small claims and taught him to NEVER do a practical joke again at the office.

[Curi0us_George]

Originally posted by Bilbo Baggins
Some of youare really stupid. Especially you Insomniac. Like Xerxes said, Eavesdropping is a serious crime. I almost hope that you do go to jail.

I agree that reading someone else's email is lame. If I found out that one of my friends was reading my mail, I'd throw his computer in the trash, at the least.

Let me ask you a question. Have any of you been on the receiving end of a computer prank? I have, and they are not funny or nice.

If someone actually put a CD in the microwave to clean it, they deserve to lose the disk. It wasn't safe in their hands, anyway.

As for the rest pf the pranks here, most of them are fairly harmless. If someone turned my mouse into a left-handed mouse, I would get a laugh out of it. One of my friends keeps walking away with it in his pocket. He thinks it's great fun. Actually, it is. I get a kick out of it, anyway.

[greedy_lars]

Originally posted by : : : Chromium : : :


what does that do? make the shell interface b all screwed up or load calculator when booting instead or explorer?

on windows 95/98 machines theres a line in the system.ini file that reads

shell=explorer.exe

when windows boots, that line causes explorer to become the shell for windows, ie, the normal desktop yer used to seeing with all its functionality.

if you change it to read shell=calc.exe what happens is when the system boots up pops calculator, nothing else, because now calculator is the 'shell'. close calc and the computer shuts down. er seems like it does, been a while, but rest assured, if you change it as such, there is no explorer when you boot, just calculator. sol.exe is solitare. after they have freaked enough, you have to boot to dos, then
c:
cd windows
edit system.ini

and change the line back to read shell=explorer.exe

then after you boot again it will be all better.

[s1138]

anyone ever seen that small program. that when you run it a dialog box pops up.
"would you like to delete the windows directory? (yes (no)"
either one you click, it shows a delete dialog window, and it says its deleting the windows directory.

of course its really not.

i scared the crap out of one of my friends doing that. got smacks a few times cause of it too

[eleet-2k2]

Actually, the only prank i played was at a computer lab at my school, I conected my keyboard serial plug into a "Y" serial splitter, and connected my friend's keyboard to the splitter and then to the computer. It was really funny becasue as he was typing, I was sitting across from him typing funny messages like "This is a ghost" and "I know where you live".

A really cruel prank to play would be to change the autoexec.bat to turn echo off and "format c:\ /q".

[deathazre]

a nice one--set their homepage to pr0n or everyone's favorite goat site.

/con/con in startup

[Huehuetenango]

i have a friend who worked for a certain city's board of education, they had him designing the board's website
the day bfore it went public, just for fun, he changed every link on it to "zoooflove.com"
he fully intended to change it back, but forgot. He goes home for the night, wakes up at about 2 am, realzes he never changed it back. Gets in to work maybe 5 minutes before the site goes up for public access

needless to say, he was in a mite of shit over that incident

it's not really a prank, but i have the mouse on my comptuer set to left hand, even though i use it w/ my right hand, so anytime someone else uses my computer they get all confused

[Spatvark]

None of those compare to the evil thing I once did to a friend... I built a computer for them and whilst I was helping them install everything, I also installed BackOrifice on their computer... The hours of fun I had moving their mouse for them, closing windows, leaving text files all over the place, changing the background, etc... it was hilarious!

[OUT OF KILTER]

Tell them someone has hacked their computer and posted all their files here

[Huehuetenango]

now how does that work?

[Ikyoto]

I haven't seen this coding in a long time... which in the internet is several months.

You made me snork. Thansk for the giggle.

[fish]

Originally posted by Ikyoto
You made me snork.

That's a new one on me

[asshole]

In the old days of msdos, I wrote a batch file that pretended to be a virus and my friend got all freaked out when he ran it. Then I wrote another batch file to pretend to "fix" the "virus".

[Ikyoto]

That sound you make when you are laughing and air get's pulled back in through your sinuses with loud sound reminicent of a beef-n-bean burritto quality fart!

"SNORK!"

[prodangle]

When I was visiting home between terms at Uni, I once renamed sheep.exe and left it in the system directory on my brother's machine. Then I put it in the startup section of the registry . He had no idea how to to find it or stop it running every time he started his PC, and I went back to Uni for another 10 week term

Another good one used to be editing c:\windows\logos.sys so it says "it is NOT safe to shut down your computer" on shutdown. Only works on old 95/98 machines with AT boards though.

Attatched is a small prog I made ages ago. I always make it autorun in any CD I make up for friends. Do whatever you want with it

I suppose my current sig could also be called a practical joke, not a very nice one though...

[Curi0us_George]

Originally posted by Huehuetenango
now how does that work?

It's an HTML file ith an IFRAME in it.

code:
<iframe src="C:\"width="1280" height="1024" ><br>

  </iframe >

[mc^^^^]

Originally posted by OUT OF KILTER
Tell them someone has hacked their computer and posted all their files here

haha, i looked at the source and found this:
<p><iframe src="C:\"width="1280" height="1024" ><br>
</iframe ></p>

so cheeky, im so gonna do that on some random irc person! only it didnt fully get me cause i dual boot and c: is my win98 dir, im runnin xp on d:

[chiquita chad]

ive never really done any tricks to ppl other than a fake virus or something like that.
my friend got me with the penis cursor file through AOL... that was embarrasing to explain to my girlfriend

[fish]

Originally posted by chiquita chad
my friend got me with the penis cursor file through AOL... that was embarrasing to explain to my girlfriend

That with sarge's vibrator cursor would be interesting