Computer pranks

[mranderson]

OP needs to meet some real women and fap less in his darkened basement to pictures of Kathryn Janeway performing sex acts on seven of nine..... ?

And then you woke up

 

[Freefaller]

Selotape on the mouse sensor - if done properly can be hard to spot at a quick glance.

 

[mranderson]

I think ones that work intermittently are the best ones. Selotape on the mouse sensor for one day. Remove it the other day etc.

 

[MaxP779]

Was just going to post what the OP did Best prank IMO.

A quick one if someone just looks the other way etc is alt + arrow key down. On the intel integrated chips this flips the screen upside down.

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

Was just going to post what the OP did Best prank IMO.

A quick one if someone just looks the other way etc is alt + arrow key down. On the intel integrated chips this flips the screen upside down.

Or Win+P and set to projector only on Win 7 (nearly caught myself with it when testing it ).

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Selotape they keys and phone down

 

[sandy10]

You're just CRAZY OP!

You'll be bluetacking a colleagues phone down next, then ringing him....

**snigger**

 

[HecFam]

Waterprint something on clear plastic, open up the monitor and put it on top of the screen, then close. Permanent waterprint (until they open it up).

 

[darael]

Bit of electrical tape over the optical sensor of a mouse works wonders. Even better if you can get electrical tape to match the colour of the mouse.

 

[*Moangroan*]

When some1 has made me angry I lower their pc chair by 3 inches and they think they have shrunk for weeks until I tell them......lol

 

[RoboCod]

Some I've done then sat back and enjoyed:

Swapped mouse ports with neighboring computers.

Removed trackball/placed tape over mouse laser + unplugged mouse.

Took screen shot of desktop. Pasted screen shot into powerpoint. Copy & Paste initial slide consisting the "desktop" for umpteen times. Press F5 to begin powerpoint show. (works well in conjunction with the two above).

Switched one or two keyboard keys around. 'M' for 'N' is always a good one.

Yeah, badd ass me.

...oh yeah, not computer but still funny office prank - sellotape over the phone receiver. Hilarious when they pick up and answer, really confused to find it keeps ringing.

 

[mo9204]

What about the time? how can you go about that

 

[SinaiSound]

An old one at school years ago was when the PCs booted into DOS and you had to launch windows 3.11 manually

PROMPT "Are you SURE you want to format C:\ ?"

Amusing

 

[mranderson]

Getting closed to 1st of April. Some very good ideas already but not much in regards to remote desktop pranks.

 

[ubersonic]

Used to do this stuff all the time in college:

Connect a USB wireless mouse receiver in the back and move their mouse while their doing stuff.

Spam them with netsend.

Change every single sound event to Quagmire sound clips.

If WoW is logged in change their macros to spam I LOVE STARFISH!

If you have the time remove the optical drive and floppy if the is one then fix them back in upside down.

Set the BIOS to wake their PC at 5AM.

Code a VB6 application that throws a generic error then hides itself from the taskbar giving the impression the program has died, then it runs an infinite loop creating directory's on the C: with incrementing numbers.

Change the name and icon of some shortcuts to appear as each other.

Email a tutor with sexual advances.

Mailbomb the college network.

Unplug the Ethernet cable, then laugh as they sit their waiting for the connection to be resumed.

 

[mranderson]

Set the BIOS to wake their PC at 5AM.

They wake already at 7am as all are work PC's. Had thought of making them shut down at 16:45 and see how many would bother to switch their PC back on instead of going home but it could be dangerously counterproductive.

 

[estebanrey]

I had to write a program for my work that sends mailshots out, when coding the email client I realized that you could put anything in to the "From" field and you could spoof any email address you wanted. I know you can bring up the 'from' box in Outlook but when I tested trying to send myself a mail from someone's else's address it just failed in Outlook, but not with the application I built.

So I took my bit of code and wrote an app specifically for that task. Did a few pranks with it like sending a mate an email from his mature female boss admitting that she fancied him. Sent other colleagues emails from the top boss telling them they're getting a huge payrise. I sent someone who didn't work at my place, who was a keen singer a message from '[email protected]' inviting them for an audition.

Now I just use it at Chrismas to send everyone a mail from [email protected]

Oh the joys of spoofing.



Oh and.....

 

[kayomani]

If your in close proximity plug in a usb keyboard without them noticing then press keys randomly through out the day.

Also works with mice and people trying to play FPS games..

 

[mistercrabb]

Change the Internet Explorer shortcut to point to c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t:5 -c "byeeee"

Set the keyboard language to American (subtle, yet infuriating).

Set random filetypes to open in notepad by default.

 

[WillyNelson]

So I took my bit of code and wrote an app specifically for that task. Did a few pranks with it like sending a mate an email from his mature female boss admitting that she fancied him. Sent other colleagues emails from the top boss telling them they're getting a huge payrise.

And you didn't get fired...?