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everyone know sticky keys? Well, me and our class decided it would be funny if everyone put them on and started to make the beeping noises cause our teacher is kinda crazy. She was panicking wondering what was happening... It was funny listening to about 25 computers beeping randomly...
 
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but one of my favorites is extremely easy to do.

Put a Shutdown shortcut in the startup folder of windows. Everything It loads explorer, then the items in msconfig it will goto the startup folder and shutdown the computer. It's just enough time for the person to think everything is ok, then BAM "Shutting Down"! Even computer professionals don't think to initially check the startup folder - most will goto msconfig or go another route to find the issue.
 
Also lots and lots of fun with /net send
"my friend" was the reason my college had to look into disableling messenger. Apparently they had a sudden interest why all 2,000+ computers in the school (Devry TP,IL) would get the same popup message.
 
I used to "net send" at lan parties... the service is disabled by default now... to bad.

Lets see: Obscure pranks.... um..

Here is kinda a computer related prank. I purchased a pair of wireless speakers and hid them in my roomate's room, where he couldnt find them easily. I hooked up the source to my computer and plugged in a microphone. For about 2 weeks, I was able to wisper at night, and make strange noises... animal sounds. Was really great fun... but those pranks come back 10x... so be careful..
 
Any of u guys remember NetBus Pro?!

Oh the swell times of win98 without firewalls which were still thought of as obsolete in those days. Remotely opening the cd tray, swapping keys, disabling of all the vowels and space bar, which ended up in texts like "whtsgngn?" (what is going on?) Which is exactly what ignorant people would answer after they had been sent an error popup in which they could include feedback apart from choosing "yes" or "no". I mean come on... when have you ever encountered an error message in windows in which you can provide feedback for the pc. Seriously... The kind of questions people will ask their computers, as if it were a living thinking "being". I think those are the best kind of pranks, where people really think they are communicating with their computers.
Not to mention all of the spy functions embedded in the program. Being able to view a live feed of what somebody is typing and being able to alter the text is hilarious.
The dumbstruck reactions of some people when you answer them over MSN even before they've asked the question (because they're still altering the text and you're able to see) was good for hours of fun.

Ahh... those were the days...
 
At work, our computers running AIX and X-Windows, I've easily done the "Formatting Hard Drive" prank. I supplied a "Cancel" button, but when you pushed it, it changed to "OK", then brought up a timer bar w/lots of disk activity. . . . . we all worked graveyard so it was a great way to wake up coworkers.

The funniest I ever heard of is an Urban Legend (so I don't take credit for it):

Guy got fired from some faceless corporation, so, what he does is:

1. Finds a a fax machine
2. Feeds it two or three sheets of black crepe paper taped together. When the top of the first sheet peeked out of the machine's out slot, he momentarily halted it, and taped it to the last sheet, forming an endless loop.
3. He then dialed his boss's fax machine.

So what happened is, the Boss's fax machine went through all its paper before someone noticed & managed to disconnect it. Each page was all black and wet with ink, there were hundreds of them, and they created one hell of a gooey mess. . . . .
 
BTW: here is an ucommon prank. Make people think their computer sucks... works on any XP machine.



msconfig-> Boot.ini tab -> advanced options -> Select MaxMem= -> set to 64mb of ram. Lets see them do anything on 64megs of ram.
 
Have 1, but never tried it...Not even really a prank...More like a sick joke, that if anyone found it, the shop in question would be seriously sued...A mate thought it would be a good idea to open a new laptop do a s**t in-between the screen and keys and then placing it back in it's boxs again...The look people would get for it would be priceless...That'll get a few replies reckon. We haven't done this...But you never know... :twisted:
 
I bet he tried it. Look at his name.... its PONK.

Better trick, just take a $h*t on his face, then kill him with a long long knife. Afterwards, take his laptop and smash it over his head until the keys are embedded in his skull.

Then laugh as you press the ctrl alt del keys attached to his bloody ear canal, eye socket, and forehead.

hahahah now thats a harmless prank.
 
I have 2... in 1996 when I first got on the internet I quickly realized how easy it was to fake an email from someone else... especially to the untrained eye... just go into Outlook Express and change a few pieces of information and POOF you're anyone... well, a friend had recently forwarded me a message that also had her boyfriend's email account listed... he was a real dingleberry (honestly, that was the nickname people called him behind his back) and I really didn't mind pulling a mean prank on him... so I sent his girlfriend (best friend of my girlfriend at the time) an email... since he was away at a military college they were in a long distance relationship... so I emailed her as if I were her boyfriend... confessed to being gay and begged her to understand that I still cared for her... just not in that way. She wouldn't return his calls for 3 days... she finally figured out what had happened, but not until 3 days had passed... I still laugh about that one from time to time.

In 1999 (or maybe 2000) I was taking a Windows NT course and the instructor showed us how to do connect to an administrative (C$) share on a computer... wow... that was cool... I had read/write access to the root of his drive... so I decided it'd be fun to change the OS load options (where you pick what OS to load) to list Windows 3.11 and DOS 6.22 as the options... I only changed the text labels and left the ARC paths the same... so everything SHOULD have been fine. BUT... I forgot to set the boot.ini file back to read only and his computer didn't load Windows the next time he rebooted. Whoops.
 
oh ya. well I think I made my point.... Pranks are not ment to be distructive to peoples properties... that is just plain mean and humanless. oh well ... Back to the best computer pranks...



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Yeah the notebook shizzle sandwich went a bit too far, but for some reason tool_462's story earlier in this thread made me laugh nonetheless. I wonder why...? Maybe I'm more empathetic towards notebooks which are not very easy to clean, or maybe it's because the "victim" in tool_462's post was a brag...

I don't know help me... I'm torn... I feel dirty... :cry:
 
Removed a clip from an intel processor heatsink/fan. Cause some random shutdowns on a co-workers PC ( we both work in IT). I was just shocked when they opened it up finally and instead of getting a spare clip had a whole new heatsink/fan ordered.

It was a good laugh for me, but not sure they felt amused when I pointed out the obvious........
 
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