Computer Pranks

Any computer prankers? And none of that wallpaper sissy crap either.

Because I love to mess with people just to see how they react to un-normal situations. For instance: Once I changed my boss’s startup sound and cranked up the volume. It said "I'm Gay"! And the proceeded to play this chunky loud fart.

It was on my top 10 list of the funniest things ever seen. I will never for get the reaction he made. His face was beat red for the rest of the day. He never really found out it was me and the blame always leaned towards my buddy at work.

What are some cool computer pranks? No wallpaper crap either. :D :D

Change the shell to Sol.exe and watch the boss walk by!

Another one I like to do:

Logon to a workstation as an account with exchange admin rights. Setup the mail on the workstation for someones. Go in and start deleting message...

Extending on Sheriff Q's idea, there's a way to manually initiate crashes right? Well make a program that does that..and set THAT as the shell... :D :D :D

I like Calc.exe instead, it's funny :p

[quote]Originally posted by JungleMan:
<strong>...there's a way to manually initiate crashes right?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Yes, install Windows. :D

Switch the keys around on the keyboard... put duct tape over the mouse ball.

[quote]Originally posted by JungleMan:
<strong>Extending on Sheriff Q's idea, there's a way to manually initiate crashes right? Well make a program that does that..and set THAT as the shell... :D :D :D </strong><hr></blockquote>

Using X-Setup, you can modify a registry key to initiate a crash.

[quote]Originally posted by Wayward Clam:
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Yes, install Windows. :D </strong><hr></blockquote>

LOL :D

Seriously, Windows 2000/XP are MUCH more stable. ;)

Change th keyboard in the control panel from English 101 to Devorak left hand. That always freaks them out.

[quote]Originally posted by *MAYHEM*:
<strong>Change th keyboard in the control panel from English 101 to Devorak left hand. That always freaks them out.</strong><hr></blockquote>


That is one of my favorites

I love messing with my manager when it comes to the computer that him and the other female manager love to be on when they should be on the floor with us. So anything I can do to mess with them I do. I have a limited amout of access to what I can do.
Today I changed his tool bar on him and he almost went nuts trying to change it back. I had to since he couldnt figure it out.
Now I would really like to get this woman one she trully gets on my nerves. Shes always on the computer doing stuff just to sit on her butt.

hmmm this was a prank that happened to me :(

all of the sudden i started getting calls on my cell phone for a car for sale. i wasnt sure why. i even got a voice mail from a guy who is really intrested in buying this car im sapposly selling. well theres only one person in the world that could do this and that is evil. its this girl i go out with. well it ended up being she put an add on the internet about me selling a 97 bmw for 2200 dollers. :mad: when i found out she almost died laughing i told her to go to hell, but she took the ad out :mad: (this is the same person who i think is throwing stuff at my car)


well anyway for revenge i subscribed her to recieve free condoms samples and free lubrications and ky jelly samples to her house. she lives with her parents so her parents will see her ky jelly and condoms .

heheheheehehe

MWHHAHAHHAAHAHAHHHAHAHA

:D

1) tape the mouse ball :)
2) unplug the keyboard
3) Install the Mac Emulator
4) Change all the shortcuts on the desktop to either porn sites or to other programs :) ( may want to back up icons befor hand)
5) Have a porn video load on startup (a good small one)
6) write a bat file to delete everything and anything from the c: (root drive) to the c:\windows directory put it in autoexec.bat or in startup
7) If you work does not allow MP3's make a program to loadup on startup and search the hard drive for mp3's then display them and pretend to email all of them to your boss from him (Did this to a whole section at my work) program must not beable to kill, make it so it will not show up in taskbar nor task manager :)

I know you said no wallpaper gags, but this one rulez. do a printscreen of the desktop, turn on active desktop, select hide icons when viewed as a web page, and then set the wallpaper to the screenshot of the desktop you took. I have driven many people bananas with this little gag. :p

A budy of mine and I took the sound files from AOL and joined them together in this very long string repeating "welcome" Goodbye" "You've Got Mail", and the door opening and all the other sounds. It was a good minute long. Then we associated the wav file with all actions and sat back and watched... It was great....

[quote]Originally posted by DaTaMan:
<strong>I know you said no wallpaper gags, but this one rulez. do a printscreen of the desktop, turn on active desktop, select hide icons when viewed as a web page, and then set the wallpaper to the screenshot of the desktop you took. I have driven many people bananas with this little gag. :p </strong><hr></blockquote>

I do the same but I like to put up an image of an illegal operations error to see how many times they reboot before they figure out that the system isn't frozen up.

[quote]Originally posted by ilovetheusers:
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I do the same but I like to put up an image of an illegal operations error to see how many times they reboot before they figure out that the system isn't frozen up.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Is there any place to download BSOD images? That would be the coolest wallpaper! Gotta try that on my dumb@$$ boss!

[quote]Originally posted by mhull616:
<strong>A budy of mine and I took the sound files from AOL and joined them together in this very long string repeating "welcome" Goodbye" "You've Got Mail", and the door opening and all the other sounds. It was a good minute long. Then we associated the wav file with all actions and sat back and watched... It was great....</strong><hr></blockquote>

LMAO! I gotta remember this one!

Kinda requires a bit of work, if you could call it that. Go out and find the raunchiest pr0n site imaginable with tons of hideous popups and set it up as home page. Hopefully they wouldn't know about Alt-F4 and would try to close everything by mouse. Fun bit of panicked clicking to watch. A simple little prog to make their system speaker sound off is also fun. Changing their color scheme to eggplant, resolution to 640x480, default 72 point font for everything, and removing the tabs in display properties (Reg hack, just tell me if you want it). And if you have the time to spare, downgrading that comps memory to about 8MB is always good for a sadistic laugh.

Not exactly computer related, but slip a 9v battery into a urinal, and wait for the scream!

[quote]Originally posted by thetilb:
<strong>Not exactly computer related, but slip a 9v battery into a urinal, and wait for the scream!</strong><hr></blockquote>

ROFLMFAO!!!!! :D :D I've got to try that!

[quote]Originally posted by thetilb:
<strong>Not exactly computer related, but slip a 9v battery into a urinal, and wait for the scream!</strong><hr></blockquote>

That's evil!

[quote]Originally posted by thetilb:
<strong>Not exactly computer related, but slip a 9v battery into a urinal, and wait for the scream!</strong><hr></blockquote>

Does that really work? I may need to test this prank. :D I'll let you know how things turn out..

This stuff is hilarious! Keep em coming... :D

[quote]Originally posted by AbSoLuTeZeR0:
<strong>well anyway for revenge i subscribed her to recieve free condoms samples and free lubrications and ky jelly samples to her house. she lives with her parents so her parents will see her ky jelly and condoms .

heheheheehehe

MWHHAHAHHAAHAHAHHHAHAHA

:D </strong><hr></blockquote>

ROTFLMAO!

I know it's wallpaper, but this one is good....

Best one I ever pulled was on this guy at work who is a HUGE Michael Schumacher fan (F1 auto racing). I was looking for some antivirus updates at Computer Associates' site, who happens to be a major sponsor for Schumacher's biggest rival, Mika Hakkinen. CA had this huge wallpaper-sized collage photo, which featured Hakkinen in the center hoisting the F1 championship trophy. The temptation was too much to resist, so I enacted a Novell ZENworks policy that would force this guy's wallpaper to the Hakkinen one on login(replacing his Schumacher wallpaper in the process!) Plus once the change was made, the display control panel was restricted so he couldn't change it back.

:D

He said he's killed people for less than that :eek:

simple yet effective.. on either their phone or network cable rj-45(male end) place a bit of scotch tape... while they go nuts trying to figger out why theres no DT or internet, you can die laffing :D

[quote]Originally posted by Imon Fyre:
<strong>simple yet effective.. on either their phone or network cable rj-45(male end) place a bit of scotch tape... while they go nuts trying to figger out why theres no DT or internet, you can die laffing :D </strong><hr></blockquote>

I'm gonna have to try that one!

heres a really funny one i did in a computer lab @ queens university when i was there for an enrichment prog in gr. 11...

a couple of friends that i had made that week in class were a couple of row up on the other side of the room in a muchmusic chatroom... so me and one of the guys in my group got into the chat room and started chatting with them...

both me and my buddy were sittin there laffin our @$$es off, and then we decided to end it, and we said hi to the guy that was there, cuz it was one of the 2 girls in the class that was sittin there doin the talkin... he freaked right out when we did that and i just about pissed my self laffing..

best prank ever!!!!!

I love this stuff!

I've also done the classic wallpaper replacement (had a teacher staring in amazement at her screen for 20 min.).

My favorite is adding a reboot command in the startup menu and/or autoexec.bat and/or <a href="http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/109/" target="_blank">registry</a> of my victim.

Brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. :D

[quote]Originally posted by DaTaMan:
<strong>

Is there any place to download BSOD images? That would be the coolest wallpaper! Gotta try that on my dumb@$$ boss!</strong><hr></blockquote>

I know I found the error picture on line somewhere but I'll be dang if I can't find it now.

Try splicing these into a .bmp/wallpaper. They are humorous error messages:
<a href="http://www.op.net/~dwarf/error.html" target="_blank">http://www.op.net/~dwarf/error.html</a>

[quote]Originally posted by DaTaMan:
<strong>

Is there any place to download BSOD images? That would be the coolest wallpaper! Gotta try that on my dumb@$$ boss!</strong><hr></blockquote> There are a few more like this at Google:

http://bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2000/9/bsod.gif

you may have to tweak them with an image editor to make them the right size. Have fun!

thanks for the links! I took the screen venom gave me and set it as wallpaper on a guys machine. About lunchtime I was talking to one of the other IT guys and he said he was about to reload that machine! Can you guess which one it was? :D I stopped him and said I would fix it.... should have let him reload it, but I am a nice person

They best I've done was on my boss when I was a bench tech.
We stuck DuckJob.wav (btw does anyone know where to get it) on the system and set it to load on startup in the registry. For those who don't know, its a wav of Donald Duck getting a bj - including the best line: "Don't move - I'll go get you a towel". :D
Our boss was too dim to figure it out, and he didn't think of turning the sound down.
About 20 customers heard it (and pi$$ed themselves) before we shut it off.

CD :D

[quote]Originally posted by CodeDragon:
<strong>They best I've done was on my boss when I was a bench tech.
We stuck DuckJob.wav (btw does anyone know where to get it) on the system and set it to load on startup in the registry. For those who don't know, its a wav of Donald Duck getting a bj - including the best line: "Don't move - I'll go get you a towel". :D
Our boss was too dim to figure it out, and he didn't think of turning the sound down.
About 20 customers heard it (and pi$$ed themselves) before we shut it off.

CD :D </strong><hr></blockquote>

<a href="http://www.thewavplace.com" target="_blank">you can get that wav here</a>

[quote]Originally posted by AbSoLuTeZeR0:
<strong>hmmm this was a prank that happened to me :(

all of the sudden i started getting calls on my cell phone for a car for sale. i wasnt sure why. i even got a voice mail from a guy who is really intrested in buying this car im sapposly selling. well theres only one person in the world that could do this and that is evil. its this girl i go out with. well it ended up being she put an add on the internet about me selling a 97 bmw for 2200 dollers. :mad: when i found out she almost died laughing i told her to go to hell, but she took the ad out :mad: (this is the same person who i think is throwing stuff at my car)


well anyway for revenge i subscribed her to recieve free condoms samples and free lubrications and ky jelly samples to her house. she lives with her parents so her parents will see her ky jelly and condoms .

heheheheehehe

MWHHAHAHHAAHAHAHHHAHAHA

:D </strong><hr></blockquote>

Subscribe her e-mail to every porn site in the universe and then scour the net for free catalogues of porn stuff to send to her house. That's always fun.

You can also get envelopes with lables that say "HEPRES TEST RESULTS" in big red letters at a joke shop. I sent one of these to everyone I knew once and found out how little of a sense of humor most people have. Oh well.

[quote] "Don't move - I'll go get you a towel".
<hr></blockquote>

ROTFLMAO !!!!!! I love that!!!! I have it on one of my computers...somewhere....if I find it I'll e-mail it to you CD. Thanks for the laugh I REALLY needed one today!

[quote]Originally posted by DaTaMan:
<strong>

<a href="http://www.thewavplace.com" target="_blank">you can get that wav here</a></strong><hr></blockquote>

Thanks DaTaMan :D

Neat little trick I found. Go to a dos prompt and go to the desktop directory (c:\windows\desktop) and do a md to make a new directory that will have spaces. Except instead of using a space bar use alt-255. This will put a space in for you, but windows will not recongize it. They try and click it, it will error, they try and delete it it will error. The only way to delete it is to go into DOS and removed the directory using the alt-255 for the spaces. Not many people will figure that out.

On blue screens, there is a really good BSOD screen saver (based on w2k OS) at <a href=http://www.sysinternals.com>sysinternals</a> I've used it before, and someone saw it while I was at lunch, and promptly rebuilt my machine - arrrghh!!!