Great work colleague prank

[OfficeTechs]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897558.aspx

BSOD screen saver.

Leave it to run and watch it do a fake reboot.....

 

[citizensmith]

or take screenshot of desktop, set as wallpaper then remove most of real icons so only some remain that do work when clicked
slow day so far

 

[katz]

LOl - that's great!

 

[LedHed]

Here are some good pranks

Put some electrical or masking tape over the mouse sensor.
Change the desktop background to a hideous color and then lock out the display settings in Control Panel with gpedit or registry hack.

One of my co-workers did a search of every .exe file on a system, he then created a shortcut for all of them and placed all of the shortcuts in the startup folder. (The system did boot...23 minutes later)

I miss the mouse orientation wizard that win98 had. I used to run it on my co-workers' computers but when it would say "Move the mouse up and down" I would move it Left to Right and vice-versa (Very funny)

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

A place I used to work years ago....was a tech house, we used to get pretty dang nasty with the pranks. This was back in the Win95 days....I'd whip up a bat file and stick it in their startup folder...and the sh|t would hit the fan soon as they logged in...lol. But back then..there was a blue screen screen saver..and that was one of the nicer pranks I did..where I didn't feel like actually rendering their computer un-bootable.
And especially at LAN parties...those people that would share out their entire "C-Drive"...heh...big mistake if I was on the network.

 

[ZenTree]

Place I used to work used to replace shortcuts with a link to batch file that shutdown the computer. They got pretty good with setting the timer, so you ALMOST had enough time to abort the shutdown, but not quite.

I ended up having shortcuts for a batch script to stop the shutdown on me at all times.

 

[stidham]

One of our favorites to pull on people was replace the Windows Start up sound with this wav. It just says "HEY EVERYBODY, I'M LOOKING AT PORN OVER HERE" We'd always reboot their machine for them when we were done. They'd just think that XP crashed and forced a reboot, and we'd turn their speakers up just to be sure.

Another one for any old mainframe people out there: In TSO, I knew REXX programming so I would go into their logon clist and the after it would do all it's file allocations and all the other stuff it was suppose to the last command was, yep you got it. LOGOFF. hehe I could almost count from the time a person would sit down until I heard "DAVE!!!"

 

[SimonG]

A techie I used to work with was caught by the BSOD screen-saver

Talk of mouse tricks reminded me, years ago a pc mag did blind tests of computer support houses, one of their tests was to set the mouse to left-hand operation before calling!