Name Your Best PC Prank

Fluorescence · 17-02-2012 02:30PM

My best PC prank is called Steve. Thanks for asking

ImpossibleDuck · 17-02-2012 06:16PM

Nothing too elaborate or high-tech but effective none the less.

My friends gf asked could she use his laptop when he was away, he said yeah and left. She went for a shower, so I went on it and left a webpage looking at engagement rings open, but minimised. She never mentioned it in front of me but I hope it was brought up at some point between them.

Nothingbetter2d · 17-02-2012 06:20PM

i once installed a screensaver that looks like your pc just had a bsod on my friend's laptop.... it drove her mad for about a week thinking i broke her laptop

Maximus Alexander · 17-02-2012 06:27PM

Mr. Presentable wrote: »

Screen shot of desktop saved as jpg.

Hide all desktop icons and move taskbar to top with autohide set. Set screen shot as wallpaper

I did this one on a co-worker a few months back. Great reaction

Orando Broom · 17-02-2012 06:38PM

Switched two letters on a colleagues keyboard. Keyboard was replaced.

johndoe99 · 17-02-2012 06:56PM

years back in college, some old PCs were being sold off. So i added an INI file to each PC one day after classes. I included details of who to contact in case of a computer fault, i added the name of a lecturer and his mobile number, i didn't like and a picture of him that i snapped covertly with a webcam.

It was hilarious

RichieC · 17-02-2012 06:58PM

i typed i liek bums on my friendz facebook ;D

Ishmael · 17-02-2012 07:24PM

Didn't do this one myself but thought it was fairly mean / funny. Create a batch file with the command "shutdown -r -t 0" and put this in the users startup folder (windows xp). Watch as the machine reboots every time the user logs on. Part of the genius of it is that it only affects a single user if you use the startup folder in their profile. Anyone else will be able to log on successfully.

The guy this was done to ended up getting the OS re-installed.

Mrs Garth Brooks · 17-02-2012 07:29PM

Ctrl + Alt + down arrow

Press all those three buttons together at the same time

MarkR · 17-02-2012 07:36PM

Put a program in the start up for various people in my course. Was that old one where it asked do you want to uninstall windows. They it looked like it uninstalled everything.

That and netsend commands telling colleagues their computer was overheating and about to explode. Never saw an office chair move so fast....

Squaredude · 17-02-2012 07:46PM

Ishmael wrote: »

Didn't do this one myself but thought it was fairly mean / funny. Create a batch file with the command "shutdown -r -t 0" and put this in the users startup folder (windows xp). Watch as the machine reboots every time the user logs on. Part of the genius of it is that it only affects a single user if you use the startup folder in their profile. Anyone else will be able to log on successfully.

The guy this was done to ended up getting the OS re-installed.

Did one similar to this except I pointed their browser to the batch file and set it to kick in after 30 seconds.

Agricola · 17-02-2012 08:13PM

All the computers in my college library had a sticker with an ID number on the monitor. This ID was unique identifier for that workstation on the college network. This allowed ya to use the netsend command to freak people out with random popups. I once sent a message to a guy sitting in front of me saying I was the Network Admin and that his account had been flagged up for accessing pornography and that he had been instructed to immediately come to the computer services department. The look of horror on his face was priceless. He then packed up his stuff and left

Never found out of he actually went down there though!

vetstu · 18-02-2012 01:45AM

Me and a friend were in the Health Sciences Library in UCD and I copped a way to get into google out of the library system on the computers, and that they had speakers. Bit silly for library computers. Anyway I cobbled a page on a free host with a screenshot of the UCD homepage.
Linked the image to a sound file from a text to speech site.
"Warning, pornographic material is prohibited on library computers"
on a loop.
Did it on two or three and sat in one of the study rooms with a view of two of them.
People going pure red and not knowing where to go, most of them medical or nursing birds, and us pissing ourselves laughing in the soundproof room.
It was better than studying anyway.

There were boys examining them all week after that.
Never had the balls to do it again.

actuallylike · 18-02-2012 02:06AM

In college (DIT), went into the autocorrect options of Microsoft Word and made it so every time DIT was typed it would change to DCU. I'd say quite a few college reports got a few strange looks.

Also, use sound recorder to record the' text to speech' to say something (offensive stuff usually works). In control panel, sounds, make it so every time something like a window minimises, it plays. Did that on the tills in my old job for whenever a naggon of the cheapest vodka was scanned. Robotic voice, "SCAB!"

robman60 · 18-02-2012 02:29AM

Dun laoire wrote: »

It turned the mouse arrow thing into a cock and pair of balls.

It's called the cursor, jeeezzz

kirving · 18-02-2012 02:34AM

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

Ctrl + Alt + down arrow

Press all those three buttons together at the same time

Webpage just scrolls?! Graphics card ftw.

Spacedog · 01-03-2012 03:58PM

installed VNC server on friends PC and started moving his mouse from another room after he got out of the shower wearing a towel. he was listening to MP3s while drying off. of I rewinded the track a couple of seconds to get his attention..

...then started moving his mouse to the desktop to his huge folder of guitar tab files he had been collecting. I selected the folder and pressed shift+delete

"Are you sure you want to permanently delete the folder 'guitar tabs' and all it's contents? [yes] [no]"

I moved the cursor slowly between the 2 options bafore hearing him in the next room screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

he was pissed, lol

Nothingbetter2d · 01-03-2012 04:07PM

Spacedog wrote: »

installed VNC server on friends PC and started moving his mouse from another room after he got out of the shower wearing a towel. he was listening to MP3s while drying off. of I rewinded the track a couple of seconds to get his attention..

...then started moving his mouse to the desktop to his huge folder of guitar tab files he had been collecting. I selected the folder and pressed shift+delete

"Are you sure you want to permanently delete the folder 'guitar tabs' and all it's contents? [yes] [no]"

I moved the cursor slowly between the 2 options bafore hearing him in the next room screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

he was pissed, lol

lol do that on your mother's pc.... when she is afk open up loads of lesbian porn links when your dad goes to use the pc, using your laptop, just make sure your in the room to watch the awkwardness between the couple.

Local-womanizer · 01-03-2012 04:16PM

In computer class in secondary school one of the lads in the class clicks a shady looking desktop icon, the screen goes mad flashing with a cock on it. All we heard from the computer was "SMALL PENIS ALERT!!!!WARNING!!!" and alarms going.

He panicked and tried clicking the pop up box that said close but it kept moving on him. Eventually it let him click close but a new verbal warning sounds "WARNING, THIS MAN HAS A SMALL PENIS!!!"

Fun times.

Nothingbetter2d · 01-03-2012 04:18PM

Local-womanizer wrote: »

In computer class in secondary school one of the lads in the class clicks a shady looking desktop icon, the screen goes mad flashing with a cock on it. All we heard from the computer was "SMALL PENIS ALERT!!!!WARNING!!!" and alarms going.

He panicked and tried clicking the pop up box that said close but it kept moving on him. Eventually it let him click close but a new verbal warning sounds "WARNING, THIS MAN HAS A SMALL PENIS!!!"

Fun times.

that guy was you wasn't it? :rolleyes:

Local-womanizer · 01-03-2012 04:22PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

that guy was you wasn't it? :rolleyes:

Good heavens no! I'm a Eunuch so I have no need to worry about such frivolities thankfully.

Standard Toaster · 01-03-2012 04:47PM

I once renamed 'My Computer' to just 'Computer'

I'm crazy like that.

smash · 01-03-2012 04:47PM

Standard Toaster wrote: »

I once renamed 'My Computer' to just 'Computer'

I'm crazy like that.

Do you have a wacky Wifi name too? Sometime like "I can hear you having sex"...

Standard Toaster · 01-03-2012 04:57PM

smash wrote: »

Do you have a wacky Wifi name too? Sometime like "I can hear you having sex"...

"Pretty Fly for a Wifi"

Spacedog · 01-03-2012 06:08PM

Back in CBS in the 90's, we had a mad fella for a computer teacher, didn't know anything past punching cards and basic spreadsheets. He once threw a kid in a chair across the lab for messing. there was only 1 computer with internet back then, and 1 of the lads beside me was using it to look up porn and there was a bunch of lads all around us, I unplugged the speakers from the back of the PC and plugged into my walkman under the table.

Put on FM104 for some tunes and the speakers, so the teacher (Jack) comes over thinking I put a CD ROM in the drive and was playing loud music. so he runs over and shoves a load of kids outta the way, starts opening the CD drive to turn off the blaring music, it's empty. he turns the volume down on the speakers, no effect - I turned the volume up on the walkman at the same time. he pushed another kid out of the way and grabs the keyboard, desperately ctrl alt deling to turn off the sound.

An ad for copperface jacks comes on the radio, and 30 kids start singing the jingle for copperface jacks with him (Jack) in the middle, I turn the sound louder on the speakers, the lads sing louder. he thinks they are making fun of him having never heard of the new nightclub on harcourt st. he is increasingly agitated and is pounding the keyboard at this point, fumbeling for the power switch and power chord, anything.

An ad for toblerone comes on next "triangluar chocolate from triangluar bees.. please give me toblerone" as the jingle played, again the lads surrounding Jack began to sing along, as I increased and lowered the volume, the lads sang lower and louder in kind, it was very subtle. At this point the man was FREAKED, turned off the computer, still the noise!

as the jingle ended "...please give me..." I pumped the volume to the max and took a deep breath for the last word ... "...TOBLERONE!!!!!" roared 30 lads spontaneously, none more than 2 metres from the man. I immediately turned off the sound, and there was a dead silence.

The look on Jacks face was like when Fr. Ted kicked Bishop Brennan up the arse. he didn't believe what just happened and wandered off disorientated to get some air.

Carter P Fly · 01-03-2012 06:15PM

A fun one is to swap the M and N keys on peoples keyboards.

Another one used to be to swap the keyboard and Mouse connectors around. Neither would work and was a pain to find out why. USB killed that fun.

Standard Toaster · 01-03-2012 06:19PM

Back in the old Gateway days if someone was away for a few days we'd power off their workstation and set flick the power tab on the power supply to 110 volts.
Cue the massive BANG when they fired up the machine on their return :pac:

Another was to set the windows startup sound to the Father Ted theme tune and set the speakers to max.
Hilarious hearing that being blasted over the floor while victim scrambles for the removed volume knob :pac::pac:

full_irish · 01-03-2012 06:55PM

I'm pretty sure lemonparty.org did that too... not sure if it still does and not wanting to go on it to investigate either

Flesh Gorden · 01-03-2012 07:25PM

Back in secondary school myself and a friend went onto main server that held everyone's personal files

Hit Ctrl+A and then selected 'hide files'

There was chaos over it as everyone's files disappeared and the teachers only had a very basic knowledge of the system

No idea if they ever figured it out, we tried to fix it but no hope.

BrokenArrows · 01-03-2012 07:40PM

Changed all the splash images for computer programs on a mates pc to porn.
I've also done the ops trick a few times.

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