Sorta funny computer prank/Im proud of it

[single]

Probably nothing new, but I havent ever heard of doing this before...

So I have been messing with my buddies background on his desktop for a while (just about every time I come over), but here is something that really pissed him off.

So I took a screenshot of his desktop with all of his icons on it in the normal spot. THen I set that screenshot as his desktop background and moved all of the original icons all over the desktop. So half of the time he was trying to access a folder, it was just a picture of the folder. Kinda funny.

The other option here would be to hide all of the other icons. That would work pretty well too, but I figured leaving everything would render his desktop semi-useable and more irritating.

His room-mate told me he got really mad.

[~mikey b]

always fun to do juvenile pranks like that

here's what we used to do when I worked in an office where we were supposed to be diligent about our passwords, computer access, etc., but we weren't

when you find someone's email open and available for unauthorized access, take advantage of it and fuck with them

we'd usually just send an email from the open computer to someone cool, but random, with "I dreamed I saw you naked last night." in the subject line

hilarity ensues

another easy one is to turn the screen display upside down - annoying as hell and "easy" to fix

[mitch_cumstein]

As soon as I read the thread title I thought of just what the OP described. We did that in college and it really has a way of pissing people off. I like to steal the wireless mouse and move it around when the old lady's on the laptop--simple but effective.

[Beaver]

Change the auto spelling correct on a few words. ie electric = lectric, boss = chief or big guy... get creative.

[monkeywrenchMoose]

Change the auto spelling correct on a few words. ie electric = lectric, boss = chief or big guy... get creative.

This FTW. How do you do this Beaver?

[stuckathuntermtn]

This FTW. How do you do this Beaver?

It's in your options in Word somewhere. You can add and remove auto correct entries.

I have a class mate who is 59 years old and will change your desktop image to something involving a large penis anytime you give him the chance. When, on the school computers, it has to be SFW, but he'll find something. One time I got blamed because it was a pic from my Facebook page. It was funny.

Arranging the icons in a penis is always a classic.

Here, I got a screen shot for auto correct.

[milton]

psexec is fun, it will launch any program on the remote machine. If you have a profile on your victims machine and are local admin, you should be able to do this.

This will play TADA! on your coworker's computer that is napping during the meeting:
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psexec \\victimscomputername -u [DOMAIN\username] -p [your password] sndrec32 /play /close "c:\windows\media\tada.wav"
(paste it into a dos box)


bsod screen saver is fun too. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb897558.aspx


one more thing:

[stuckathuntermtn]

^^^ you have to download system internals suite, no?

[milton]

^^^ you have to download system internals suite, no?

It's in there, but it's part of smaller kit called pstools.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb896649.aspx

[spanky]

always fun to do juvenile pranks like that

here's what we used to do when I worked in an office where we were supposed to be diligent about our passwords, computer access, etc., but we weren't

when you find someone's email open and available for unauthorized access, take advantage of it and fuck with them

we'd usually just send an email from the open computer to someone cool, but random, with "I dreamed I saw you naked last night." in the subject line

hilarity ensues

another easy one is to turn the screen display upside down - annoying as hell and "easy" to fix

I've done similar except it was an office wide email (300+ employees) with, "Have you seen my teddy bear?" in the subject.

[jm2e]

This old boss that I grew to loathe, I started fucking with him. He was always accusing people of taking his shit like staplers and hole punches. I decided the funnest thing to do was popl random keys out of his keyboard. Like the M and the N. I whish I still had access to the place so I could keep fucking with him.

[Mr Deez]

As an engineer I always have to deal with operators that have no idea how to operate Windows. Somebody played a prank on one of them and set the desktop to upside down mode. He couldn't figure out how to change things back or operate the mouse and called me to get help. I told him to turn his mouse upside down and right click instead of left click. after 5 min of watching him tilt his head 100+ deg I decided to fix it for him. Then 2 days later I was helping another operator and told him to open a program. He couldn't find it.
Me: "Just click on the "start" button."
Him: "Where's the "start" button."
I should have been a grade school teacher. wait... grade schoolers are smarter.

[Tye 1on]

Once changed the mouse button setting for a friend, so left click was now right and vice versa. Short term humor...

[stuckathuntermtn]

ok, you dont need pstools.
shutdown.exe -s -m \\computername
we have admin rights in one of the labs. Faculty was not impressed. change -s to -a to abort the shutdown.
shutdown.exe/? can explain more.

[hafilax]

A bunch of us were working regularly in a computer lab one summer in the mid 90s. We had new (at the time) Macs and they had some voice recognition software that would execute commands. We set Dave's computer up so that saying "Computer, close all windows." would close everything he was working on. Took him a while to figure out how to change it back.

We also set the error sound to say "Sorry Dave, I can't do that." straight from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

[Art Shirk]

http://tetongravity.com/forums/showt...ght=balls+deep

And, I enjoy setting folks cell phone displays to a different language. Navigating back to the "language selection" page can be cumbersome.

[cramer]

thats a great prank. I pulled that one on one of our help desk guys back in the day. It was pretty funny. He thought his mouse was fucked at first.

[Skipig25]

Once changed the mouse button setting for a friend, so left click was now right and vice versa. Short term humor...

on par with this one, I like to change peoples mouse scroll wheels so when you scroll down it goes up, and up goes down. not hard to change, but slightly amusing. or change their keyboard setup to dvorak

[Art Shirk]

It's in your options in Word somewhere. You can add and remove auto correct entries.

I have a class mate who is 59 years old and will change your desktop image to something involving a large penis anytime you give him the chance. When, on the school computers, it has to be SFW, but he'll find something. One time I got blamed because it was a pic from my Facebook page. It was funny.

Arranging the icons in a penis is always a classic.

Here, I got a screen shot for auto correct.

This has so many possibilities. I say the following knowing that I would never screw with my wife's job, but...

She leaves her work laptop around a bit. As a Barbri (company that assists law students pass the bar exam) director, she is always emailing students during exam time telling them that they will be "fine" and that they have "prepared."

"Fine" = "embarrassed by your own legal ineptitude"
"Prepared" = "herpes"

[LightRanger]

As a Highway Robbery (company that assists law students pass the bar exam) director, she is always emailing students during exam time telling them that they will be "fine" and that they have "prepared."

Fixed it for you.

[Art Shirk]

Fixed it for you.

Keeps the lights on here

[stuckathuntermtn]

I'm also a fan of changing the desktop to a screenshot of the desktop, and hiding everything. Great Success!

[grrrr]

Another easy one - extend the desktop onto a non existent monitor, then drag random, commonly used programs over there and shut them down. When they open the program it will jump off screen.

[single]

Another easy one - extend the desktop onto a non existent monitor, then drag random, commonly used programs over there and shut them down. When they open the program it will jump off screen.

Thats rad.

This thread is becoming better and better. Sometimes I wish I worked in a cubicle environment just to screw with people.

[Phill]

This is so much better than that douche bag who made some video of him building shit in some other guys office because he is the prank king