It was more for show...there was an older lady that loved it when I played tricks on this guy. It made her day when I did it.
Your best computer prank
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It was more for show...there was an older lady that loved it when I played tricks on this guy. It made her day when I did it.
Also at my place of employment (very laid back) we like to send other co-workers strange messages whenever anyone stays logged on to their computer and leaves their desk. I recently sent our secretary a message from my buddies computer with a picture of a monkey attached. I then asked her, "have you ever seen a monkey like THIS before?" Really, really lame, but it is good clean fun.
Isn't it sort of no fun when you have to go deal with the pranks you've done?
We used to flip people's screens upside down with auto-rotate, and then make the mouse left handed. It took forever for people to figure that one out.
Most of the usual gags...tape on optical mice, stealing mouse balls on mechanical ones, changing the keyboard layout to Dvorak, making the wallpaper look like the desktop, etc. etc.
I've done the screen shot of their desktop and saved is as their wall paper before. I've swithched peoples letters on their keyboard. I switched their display screen so everything was upside down. The one thing that took the longest for the person to figure out was I switched the persons keyboard and mouse around. They were still connected but they were in each others spots. This was back when they were both had thier specific port.
When a co-worker was out of town and left his cabinet keys out, we locked his mouse, keyboard, and telephone in the overhead cabinet of his cubical and then took the panel off the side of his computer and threw the key in there. When he got in, we started calling him repeatedly.
Another time, we threw some bananas, an apple, and orange into the computer and closed the case. They sat in there for quite a while until we talked the guy into calling IT to upgrade his video card. He was sitting there watching as IT opened his machine, and said "well, maybe getting this fruit out of here will help the performance a little too".
Another time, we threw some bananas, an apple, and orange into the computer and closed the case. They sat in there for quite a while until we talked the guy into calling IT to upgrade his video card. He was sitting there watching as IT opened his machine, and said "well, maybe getting this fruit out of here will help the performance a little too".
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this is a good prank. i used to do this on my high schools computers all the time.
this is a good prank. i used to do this on my high schools computers all the time.
Back in the Project Vincent days at ISU (email)....
We were trying to guess what my roommate used as a password. Since we know it had to be something he would remember, we decided to try his dog's name...BINGO (no that was not his dog's name).
The next day while on campus, I changed his password on him. When he tried to log in that night from our apartment (dial-up with a 32.2 modem), he couldn't log on and was cussing up a storm. My roommates and I were busting up laughing in our rooms. The next day I changed it back and he could log on. I'd continue to change it back and forth for a day or two just to tick him off until we finally told him a few months later.
We were trying to guess what my roommate used as a password. Since we know it had to be something he would remember, we decided to try his dog's name...BINGO (no that was not his dog's name).
The next day while on campus, I changed his password on him. When he tried to log in that night from our apartment (dial-up with a 32.2 modem), he couldn't log on and was cussing up a storm. My roommates and I were busting up laughing in our rooms. The next day I changed it back and he could log on. I'd continue to change it back and forth for a day or two just to tick him off until we finally told him a few months later.
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Has anyone done the putting quarters or nickels in the office phone and then take them all out one day and have him/her whack herself in the face witht he phone since it is considerably lighter?
That is by far the funniest Office prank I have seen.
I also just discovered the "auto rotate" feature myself today. Turning it upside down is the funniest, but turning it just 90 degrees to the left was VERY hard to change back, because the mouse still moves correctly relative to the screen.
Actually, about a month or two ago my computer, I swear, did this on its own, I had never had this happen to me. I was carrying my laptop from room to room and when I got to where I was going this had happened to me. Took me about 30 minutes to figure out what I had done to make it happen.
You can try it, if you can't figure it out on your own you can TRY and PM me and I will tell you how to get it back. But it is actually fairly simple.
specifically i was thinking of the cellphone in celing tile, but...
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We have shared PC's in our area because we rotate around. All the PC's have static IP's (that have to for the work we do). We all have our own userid's we log on with etc... Anyway, some of the people I work with are not the real computer savy. If I see them surfing the web when they should be working I will use the Net Send command and say something like "You Internet history has been sent to your manager" or whatever. Kind of funny. One time I watched a guy read it and he cleared his cookies, history and did a hard shut down of his PC...
Some don't recognize that this simple command shows which PC the message came from.
Some don't recognize that this simple command shows which PC the message came from.
