[RESOLVED] Best Techie Prank

I'm sure we've all had a few good ones pulled on us - and probably pulled off a few doozies as well. I need a good laugh, so send in your favorites.

Years ago when I worked in an electronics lab with a bunch of...well people like me, our favorite pranks always included superglue and/or freeze spray. The most common prank involved watching another tech leave his bench momentarily and superglueing a tool to his bench. This was all fun and laughs until somebody picked up a tool before the glue had dried and it remained attached to his closed hand.
After that little hospital visit, they tok away our superglue.
Managers rarely see the humor in these situations........

I recently installed Netbus (a remote admin. proggie) on a fellow techs machine when he wasn't around. It's amazing how much fun you can have with those. He went crazy, he couldn't figure out what was wrong with his PC.

I also remember my days in electronics lab. We had a prankster that would take a capacitor and charge it up to about 100volts then carefully bend the leads around it so they wouldn't touch. Then he would toss it to someone. It would give a good shock, but just for a split second. But I don't recomend trying this yourself. You could really hurt someone.

I set every one of the sounds in Windows to the guys from the beer commercial that go "wazzup!". Dragged a video clip of them into the start up. I thought it was funny and my boss did too, for about a minute. He could not click on anything with out it playing.

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Suicidal twin kills sister by mistake! Story at ten!

On any PC with windows (with active desktop)
Hit the "print screen/sysRq" button and then open MSPAINT and paste the contents of the clipboard it should be a screenshot of the desktop then save it as a jpg (i think it is possible). Then change the back gorund to the new picture you made and also set the "hide desktop icons when viewed as web page" in the view options. sit back and watch them go crazy when the try to click there desktop icons, (you can also hide the start bar over to one side of the screen

Heard of a tech one time who captured a "Blue Screen of Death" and made that another tech's logo.sys.

Brutal.

Funny, but brutal.

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I keep hitting escape...Why am I still here??

Gods! Thats sick! but I like it...hmmmm https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2000/09/1.gif

I like changing the shell=explorer.exe to shell=progman.exe and listening to the screams of horror in the morning.

On Jan 1st, I changed everyones Windows98 bootup logo screen to a "Windows 1900" image file, my boss called me up, nearly in tears of despair LOL!!

and of course WINVNC: the fun I have had (and still have) with this is endless...

the worst thing i ever did was put a programon other techs' computers to make their mouse do random things. on top of that i installed a program in the startup folder that would make their computer randomly fart. well needless to say one of the techs was on the phone with a 3rrd party warranty company and the computer farted obnooxiously loudly--the whole time he had to keep a straight face with the woman on the phone ;D.



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prompt$p$g [dos = elite]

If you delete unneeded DOS 3.3 commands on a boot disk you can fit Windows 1.01 on a floppy. Stick this boot disk in the A: drive and chances are they will not notice it when they turn it on in the morning. Just wait until they see MS-DOS EXECUTIVE. Mass panic until you remove the disk and reboot.

Once in win 3.1 we captured a "Program Manager" screen and put it up as wall paper and minimized progman manager, what a laugh, It took about 20 reboots to figure what was going on when all the tech's had tears from there eyes

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Wadda you mean I lost all my information !! It has been making that noise for 2 months and working fine..

Yeah, there's some stuff on winfiles.com (if you can find it) that does some wierd stuff like eject cdrom, start explorer, beep the pc speaker etc. at random times...

for NT, get shutdown.exe from the NTResKit and walk past somebody's machine, make sure they aren't doing something too important, then send the remote command to shutdown their workstation - hehehe!!!

Some fun things! https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2000/09/1.gif

WHile working late one night, as a joke I loaded a sceen saver that was a fake blue screen of death. You should have seen the other techs the next day messing with there machines. It was great.

I used to send a Black page by fax to Fax machine...
gues what was the outcome
;>

I once used a program to automatically restart a coworkers computer after entering widows. He spent hours trying to open one thing at a time while windows loaded up to the point of restarting. Slowly but surely he thought he had it and was going to remove it from Start up. Uhh Ohh... It's not there.... little did he know I used another prank to hide the first one. To remove it you had to boot command prompt and track it down. Now isn't that a pain in the a**. 40+ Folders typing away through DOS to find somthing that doesn't look like somthing of yours.

Needless to say I was never allowed near his computer again.

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Sniff...Smell that..... That's what a roach smells like after he made his home your computer... and fried.

not as funny as the fake blue screens of death or active desktop... but one tech here put pcanywhere on a few of the systems (having them load at startup).

Every time our secretary would stop using the computer to answer the phone, he would change whatever it was that she was working in. i.e.: a bill for a customer that was $35 would now be $3,500 and the labor descrioption would be "using your computer to surf for porn" or if she was typing a letter to "Mr.Jones" he'd change it to be "Dear Mr Fancy Pants" etc...

It was funny for a day (because for the life of her she could not figure out why the computer would do such a thing) but we had to put a stop to it because we were worried she may not always proof read before she printed her documents/bills.

We had a supervisor who was a real putz at my last job. He had a seperate office from the workshop, and his office had it's own thermostat. We'd wait until he left for lunch or whatever and blast his thermostat with an upended can of compressed air. By the time he'd get back, his office temperature would be up around 90. He knew it was us, but could never figure out how it was done.

https://forums.windrivers.com/ I used the PcAnywhere trick myself. Most of the people here only know what I've told them, so one day this one guy was giving me some grief so I started pcAnywhere. All I did was wait until he would try to click somewhere and I'd move the mouse away, then he'd try to type something and I'd delete it, or move to another field, or re-type the character he typed. It was only a couple of minutes until my phone rang... "Uh, my computer is doing some really strange things" I told him to re-boot and presto, the problem was solved!!! https://forums.windrivers.com/

One of my techs went away for the weekend and we decided to play with him.
In the autoexec.bat file 200 lines down we put in killcmos.
When he booted the machine on Monday morning, it got to starting windows and then said that no fixed disk present. He couldn't figure it out and opened the case until we finally told him to boot safe mode command prompt and rem out the line. He was EXTREMELY PISSED FOR A FEW DAYS!!!

Simple but effective.

1- Remove someone's Mouse Ball, and scotch tape over the spinning rods inside.

2- tape down the reciever of someone's phone and listen to them say 'hello' over and over again.

3- Put clear tape over the mouthpeice of someone's phone, and listen to them get louder and louder as the other party insists they cannot hear them.

4- Unplug the handset cord from the bottom of someons phone. When they answer a call.... Hello? Hello?

Oh and dont forget this one if you work in a cubicle:

Chances are their phone or lan connection is in your area. If so, randomly unplug thier lan cable and their phone cable.
Besides restoring the default volume of thier phone (which is usually deafening)
in many cases it will cause them to have to reboot their computer to restore their network connections for their PC.

you can do that to a 9x box witht netbus.

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Originally posted by Shades:
Yeah, there's some stuff on winfiles.com (if you can find it) that does some wierd stuff like eject cdrom, start explorer, beep the pc speaker etc. at random times...

for NT, get shutdown.exe from the NTResKit and walk past somebody's machine, make sure they aren't doing something too important, then send the remote command to shutdown their workstation - hehehe!!!

Some fun things! https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2000/09/1.gif

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I haven't done anything really bad, but I have used the pcAnywhere trick, and I have disabled stuff using poledit, changing attributes to INI files to H and S so users could not change settings, stuff like that.

I once read in 2600 that the thermastats in places like Wal-Mart or some of the other big department stores were controlled by computer dialing into them. Each thermastat had a 4 digit number on it and that was the phone number ex: 456-345-#### where #### would be the 4 digit number. When you dialed in using hyperterminal, you would have to logon and then you got a menu system. The guys @ 2600 cracked the logon/password and were calling up stores in the winter and cranking out COLD air or calling up in the summer and cranking out HOT air all day long.
I thought that it was funny.
JKS

This really isn't a prank, but the other day, I got a program to flash the bios and change that little energy star logo in the corner. One of my co-workers now has an "Idiot Outside" logo on startup, just have to figure out how to make it full screen.

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.·°Danrak°·.
The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better" so I installed Linux

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Originally posted by Danrak:
This really isn't a prank, but the other day, I got a program to flash the bios and change that little energy star logo in the corner. One of my co-workers now has an "Idiot Outside" logo on startup, just have to figure out how to make it full screen.

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What utility was that? Does it work for all BIOS's or just one brand?


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WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO TODAY?......Not that it matters, because Micrsoft will crash on the way there!!!

I like opening a dos box, Changing to the desktop directory and creating a folder with an ascii character like <Alt>+201 then typing something like "<Insert Name Here>'s momma is so fat...." etc.

'Coz windows is so dumb it just comes up with 'Cannot find' and 'Moved or removed' every time the user tries to access/delete it. HA! Sit for hours trying to work out what number combo that one is!

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Cheers,
Mr.James

Another one I like is copying the [TTFontDimenCache] section in the system.ini and pasting it about 40 times.
Watch the look of confusion as it says 'Not enough memory to load Window$' but the mem command says it's all free. Hee! Hee! https://forums.windrivers.com/

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Cheers,
Mr.James

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Originally posted by 3fingersalute:
What utility was that? Does it work for all BIOS's or just one brand?

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I've only used in on Asus p5a boards, but it should work with any award bios board. The website for the program is http://www.flazh.de/ and has instructions on how to use it, the only bad thing is you have to download a bios update for any board you plan on using. Also if you don't register it it has a little thing at the bottom of the picture saying "unregisted".



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.·°Danrak°·.
The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better" so I installed Linux