Playing trick on work colleague

Pansy Potter

A work colleague of mine who is not very computer literate purchased a laptop a few months ago which came with a load of bundled trail versions of various good and bad software, and a 90 day Norton Anti Virus package. She is now afraid to use it as she feel she has no anti virus protection. She has asked me to get her a free anti virus and install it, and to remove anything that I consider unnecessary. Basically I have carte blanche to do whatever I want. Obviously I will be helpful, I don't think I can miss this great opportunity to have a bit of fun.

What nasties can I do to the laptop that won't be permanent but will cause a bit of shock and horror?

If After Hours is not the right place for this please feel free to move it.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Stick a picture of a naked woman up as her background.

She may even like it and keep it...

biko

Set the scheduler to perform some task/play a song every now and then.

Dave D

Try one of these.
http://www.zug.com/pranks/fooltool/

Wossack

goatse as shutdown screen

logout .bat file in startup folder

steal her ram/hds

rearrange the keys on her keyboard (dunno bout this one on laptop keyboards...)

all I can think of atm...

Plissken1

Pansy Potter wrote:

A work colleague of mine who is not very computer literate purchased a laptop a few months ago which came with a load of bundled trail versions of various good and bad software, and a 90 day Norton Anti Virus package. She is now afraid to use it as she feel she has no anti virus protection. She has asked me to get her a free anti virus and install it, and to remove anything that I consider unnecessary. Basically I have carte blanche to do whatever I want. Obviously I will be helpful, I don't think I can miss this great opportunity to have a bit of fun.

What nasties can I do to the laptop that won't be permanent but will cause a bit of shock and horror?

If After Hours is not the right place for this please feel free to move it.

Just do a print screen, then set it as the desktop background. Its quick to do, and wont do any damage. they will think they have shagged up the PC already.

stipey

Take a screen shot of the desktop and save it to the hard drive.
Then set this image as the desktop wallpaper.
Hide the start bar/taskbar at the bottom of the screen.
Hide all icons from the desktop

So as a result, the person boots up their machine, sees the regular desktop but clicking on icons and the start menu do nothing.

Alternatively make the default mouse button the right button. Change the cursor speed to something incredibly quick or incredibly slow. Change the double click speed to the fastest possible. Finally, if the mouse settings has some kind of calibration utility (you know the one where you move the mouse in order to get the hot air ballon or car to the top of the screen) use this but move the mouse horizontally instead of vertically - so when they move the mouse upwards the cursor will move left or right.

petes

stipey wrote:

Take a screen shot of the desktop and save it to the hard drive.
Then set this image as the desktop wallpaper.
Hide the start bar/taskbar at the bottom of the screen.
Hide all icons from the desktop

So as a result, the person boots up their machine, sees the regular desktop but clicking on icons and the start menu do nothing.

I've done that a few times.

Anti

I pulled the "post it" prank on my boss a few weeks ago. HE got so pissed off he almost had me fired.

Gone West

If its a laptop set the desktop background to one of those broken laptop screen wallpapers.

thelordofcheese

stipey wrote:

Take a screen shot of the desktop and save it to the hard drive.
Then set this image as the desktop wallpaper.
Hide the start bar/taskbar at the bottom of the screen.
Hide all icons from the desktop

So as a result, the person boots up their machine, sees the regular desktop but clicking on icons and the start menu do nothing.

Alternatively make the default mouse button the right button. Change the cursor speed to something incredibly quick or incredibly slow. Change the double click speed to the fastest possible. Finally, if the mouse settings has some kind of calibration utility (you know the one where you move the mouse in order to get the hot air ballon or car to the top of the screen) use this but move the mouse horizontally instead of vertically - so when they move the mouse upwards the cursor will move left or right.

yeah, thats a good one.
The last time i done this, the guy had an Nvidia card, so you could set the screen to be upsidedown, so i took the screengrab, then inverted it (so it's upside down), then inverted the screen. So the picture is right way up, but the controls are totally inverted.

Also, setting up the sound scheme so that it plays the same (hopefully long and irritating) MP3 for various Windows events, but instead of having one file for all the events, have multiple copies of the same file, named differently, and scattered throughout the machine.
The extra kicker is once an event starts, the sound file is loaded into memory, and has to play through, there is no way to stop it, not even deleting the file itself.

DonkeyStyle \o/

thelordofcheese wrote:

Also, setting up the sound scheme so that it plays the same (hopefully long and irritating) MP3 for various Windows events

Oooh, I've done that one... I used the original hamster dance song IIRC (not the lame techno ones)... this was in a call-center too so it was extra funny knowing customers could hear it

micks

Set the start up sound to another ie audio off a prono

Gone West

Don't click this in work, school, anywhere your mammy can see you.
Actually just dont click it at all.
But it does make a decent prank.

[actually better not link it in public, lest I get banned again ]

philstar

browse the web and see if you can come accross one of those joke downloads....like say..."this computer will self distruct in one minute"...ten, nine, eight .....Ka BOOMMM!!!!!

electric69

download some really flithy porn.then make a shortcut for it on her desktop
....then go to start --->
All Programms --->
Startup
then get the shortcut and drag it into there.

Now everytime she starts her computer the porn will play and she wont have a clue how to stop it

AlmightyCushion

Clippy ftw

Stabshauptmann

Anti wrote:

I pulled the "post it" prank on my boss a few weeks ago. HE got so pissed off he almost had me fired.

what prank is that?

Ishmael

If theres any shortcuts on the desktop, change the link destination inside to something funny, like a logout batch file or something.

norbert64

best suggestion yet \/




















nothing, just do what's been asked and get your rocks off somewheres else.

0ubliette

google a program called sub7.
great for palying pranks if you can install it on someones machine. Used to do it in college, you can flip peoples screens upside down, make thier screen go compeltely black with a little flashing green cursor a la 'wake up neo' and type whatever you like in it, or jsut take full control of thier machine, all done remotely from your own pc
some of these are evil ideas tho!

BaZmO*

Go into autocorrect in Word and make it so that every time she types in her name in Word something really random like Petulia or Gay Porn or even your boss's name comes up instead.

Feral Mutant

Make a folder on her desktop and give it a title of something illegal/disturbing/fetish-related, use your imagination. Then take a screenshot, delete the folder and set the screenshot as the background. Watch as they freak out trying to delete it and hide it from passers-by.

philstar

jayus!!....what a mean-minded bunch u lot are....i sure wouldn't like you guys as friends;)