PC PRANKS!!
 

Just wondering if anyone knows of any funny computer pranks anything from network jokes to stand alona applications people have written.
Please tell all details if they are complex pranks, for those who are playin at home!!

My best at the moment (oldy but Goldy)
Start >> Run >> CMD >> shutdown -f -m //computerneme -t 00

This will instantly shutdown a network PC without warning.

GET POSTIN- no matter how lame.
eg. 3.5 Floppy DiCk.

If I have the time, I'll take a screenshot of my buddy's desktop, delete all of his desktop icons, then set the screenshot of his desktop as the backround, minimize the start button taskbar, and viola: it looks like his computer is frozen. He can manually restart however many times he wants, and it will never "work" until I show him what happened. (I usually get punched afterwards, but it's totally worth it to see the frustration on their faces).

I also did random pranks on high school kids when I worked for my school fixing the computers. We would remote access some computer a KNI! (known idiot) is on, and randomly close his programs, send em messages, etc. Good times getting back at the little crappers for messing everything up on the machines daily.

I still haven't done this one.

I was witness to this one between two coworkers: the prankster manually changed the names of all of the victim's desktop icons to their Spanish equivalents, then told the guy he had turned on his "Spanish setting." The victim spent hours trying to "set" them all back to English.

That reminds me of our last PBX system.. a Merlin Legend from Lucent. The internal extension for the voice mail was 7929. The feature code for having all the menus on your phone be in Spanish was *792. Once in a while somebody would graze the * on their way to the 7 and turn on the Spanish.

You probably should not be encouraging the first time poster ...

Well, he apparently picked a topic worth discussing. What's not to encourage? :eyebrow:

Well they're brains are like dry sponges coming into the damp Cellar.. very impressionable you know.

Well, i am a first time poster in the cellar yes, but i have posted else where before i found this brilliant website. By the way any one got any complex pranks (want to extend my knowledge of programming, whlst having some fun, eg Daves desktop photo prank). What language is an easy yet effective one to write simple prank programs??

Something cool i just learnt: Start a notepad doc. paste:

MsgBox "D:\ CONTAINS HARMFULL MATERIAL, INCLUDING VEGEMITE",vbcritical,"WARNING"


Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7")
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection

if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next ' cdrom
End If


Where "Warning" and "D:\ CONTAINS HARMFULL MATERIAL, INCLUDING VEGEMITE" can be changed to suit. Save as blah.vbs - this will display error msg. and open optical drives!!- if Windows media player is installed!!Cool eh?

If you want, you could just beat him at freecell everytime. You start the game and type XYZZY followed by hitting the SHIFT button, and it will change the upper left pixel on the top of your screen. If you drag your mouse over a bomb, it turns black. If you are not on a bomb it turns white. Nobody will know you're looking at a single pixel. You can play for beers.

I think you mean minesweeper ... but awesomely cool that is. Not the hack itself, but the secret word gives me a warm sense of nostalgia. Now where did I put my 3 foot rod with the rusty star on the end?

bak on topic...- Well im interested on a post fade in a different forum by Dave - he claims, probably did, to write a program that took a screenshot then placed that image as an always on top fullscreen thing- so it appears like the computer has frozen. If you know even where to start in writing this app. post below, or for that matter any other funn pranks apps that ppl can write in a simple leanguage, like Vb or sumn. Well hope some one has some thing...

LOOK OUT FOR THE PENGUINS!!!

Oops I said freecell instead of minesweeper. Freecell is my official work stress release