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Whats your favorite computer prank?

Mine is to take a screen shot of the users desktop. Save it as a bitmap and set it as the desktop wallpaper.

then hide the start bar, and hide the desktop icons.

It great watching people reboot and try to figure out what the hell is going on!

any other good pranks to play on people?

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lol at work i put an active web object on the desktops. It was a porno one... so when everyone booted up, well...it was hilarious is all i can say. The screams from the female employees was priceless....:p :D :cheeky:

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my favourite trick back in the day (1995) on aol was seeing how many people in one night I could talk into formatting their hard drives. I think the record was around 12 but it was always so funny using aohell to **** with someones head and then tell them the only way to fix it was to go into dos and type in format C: /y, they disappear for a week or two then come back saying their dads got all ****ed off at them for wiping the hd hehe.

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Changing people's backgrounds is the best :)

I found a REALLY REALLY disgusting hardcore porno picture and set it on someone's background. Then, in the middle of a computer lab, they boot up there computer :)

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Originally posted by Wickedkitten

my favourite trick back in the day (1995) on aol was seeing how many people in one night I could talk into formatting their hard drives. I think the record was around 12 but it was always so funny using aohell to **** with someones head and then tell them the only way to fix it was to go into dos and type in format C: /y, they disappear for a week or two then come back saying their dads got all ****ed off at them for wiping the hd hehe.

And this one has been done sooooo many times. You find out someone's account info and tell them they have illegal prono logged on their computer, and to check the databases of C HTML cookies they have to type format c:

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change ALL the sounds [open folder, select, shutdown, startup, minimize, close, maximize..etc] to the annoying alarm sound from half-life, with a mix of other really annoying things.

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here are a few...

check out this forum

some are very very funny...

and the best computer prank of all time... is the IRC Wedding Prank pulled off by old buddy of mine HeLLfiReZ :)

He set up an eggdrop on irc and pretended to be a woman and eventually got some loser to marry the bot online. There was a website that had all the logs and pictures and crap. I can't find the site, atm I think it's down. If I can find it, i'll post the addy.

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Originally posted by Faction

change ALL the sounds [open folder, select, shutdown, startup, minimize, close, maximize..etc] to the annoying alarm sound from half-life, with a mix of other really annoying things.

Change it to porno sounds and turn the guys speakers to full blast! Next day at work, he comes along, and ...

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here's some that work great on places with many computers. (like schools libraries, ect...)

switch the cords of the keyboard and mouse of each computer, but keep them infront of the same one. You can have more fun with this by being a "ghost"

on unpatched Windows 9x systems, run the command con/con on each one of them so they all show blue screens. (yes, there was an old bug where if windows tried to access any path that contained con/con it would blue screen, even in IE for example trying to go to http://www.microsoft.com/con/con)

Install a program that will make the mouse move in the oposite direction then its supposed to.

and finally, change the shell to restart.com (only will work in win9x) :)

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"Net Send" is a fun little thing to play around with...change your computer name to "Microsoft_Sales" or "Microsoft" and send messages like "You are using an illegal copy of MS Windows. You have 30 days to Remove/Register this software, at which time legal action will be pursued." You can't type all of it in, but variations...

I ****ed with a friend Tuesday with this one -- she called her Dad in Toronto, crying --- muahahah....

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Originally posted by timdorr

that "Hey everyone! I'm looking at GAY PORNO!" link was pretty good...

aahahaha!!! set all the computers home pages to that link and turn all the volumes up all the way. hmm..... i'mma do that. whats the link to that site again?

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I like the net send one - thats hilarious and would work great at my school.

switching the mouse orientation is funny too, especally at school. I go to Law School and no one there knows jack about computers.

Can anyone help me with this?

I want to write an executable that I can put on friends machine that every few minutes it blurts out a cuss word -like the chick in "Deuce Bigelow." It's be called turrets.exe. Anyway some people leave the volume on in class and that stupid windows sounds go on and off through out class - it be hilarious if it started cussing.

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Take snapshot of screen, remove all icons, then set background/wallpaper to screenshot you took earlier..... its funny watching ppl actually trying to click the folders that really arn't there...

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Originally posted by Intelligen

Take snapshot of screen, remove all icons, then set background/wallpaper to screenshot you took earlier..... its funny watching ppl actually trying to click the folders that really arn't there...

umm... did you even read the thread? That was the first thing posted.... :ponder:

Originally posted by Eth3l

Mine is to take a screen shot of the users desktop. Save it as a bitmap and set it as the desktop wallpaper.

then hide the start bar, and hide the desktop icons.

It great watching people reboot and try to figure out what the hell is going on!

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Sorry man, must had missed that one, read all, but just went over my head i suppose. Human error, its a common thing in the world today, don't bash us because of it. I'm sorry if my repeation has ruined your life all together.

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lol I remember back int he days of netbus ahh twas so young and full of hijinks, me and a mate found this guy we both connected to him, ahhh it was so funny where both there hassling him, he disconnected or we shuthim down 8 times before he gave up and stopped comming back on.

ahh not exactly a prank but we thought it was the funniest thing since sliced bread back then.,

Or another one was someone had installed netbus on the school computer, ahh we took over some of the computers in the next room, we could hear the peopl ethrough the wall in the room man they didnt know what was going on, msgs comming up on their screens, cd roms opeining up by themeselves. lol memories.

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It was last year when I was going to print a final 80 page project. I was ran out of printing credits so I asked my friend to hack the computer system and log in as administrator and he added like $25 printing credit into my account. And no I did not pay any single cent for it...of course for free :D

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damn glad I didnt go to your school, our teacher would just ask, you payed your computing fees, youd say yes and could go on a printing spree.

But I payed mine in the end I felt guilty since my Software Design and Development end of year project documentation came to over 100 pages.

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Yeah I've just realised days after submitting that project that I felt guilty of not paying the printing credits and I feel like use it for enjoyment. I paid for the course fee, and also I like the lecturer...was very kind and helpful enough. But the project was like hell. Spent 8 weeks on that project and finally finished it. I got HD (85%) for the project ;)

The next time I encountered the same thing then I better pay for it because I use it.

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i did this to my roomate the other day.

copy all the icons on the desktop, paste them about 1000 times, takes a long time to boot after that, works better when they are files :p

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