Hehe, there have been a share of funny computer pranks that I've pulled on people before. Most of them I pulled on my family put one time I pulled one on my computer teacher when I was in high school. The look on his face of classic, hehe.

Ok, here they are as I remember them:

1) On April fools day of 2001, I pulled a prank on my mother by fooling her in believing that her computer's hard drive had crashed and needed reformatting. What I did was code a simple bat program that print the words in Dos saying "An error occurred while reading the C: drive. Windows cannot load. Press a key to continue". My mother was going "Oh no! I still have my taxes to do! Aaron, help me fix my computer!" so I told her to just press a key and the next screen said "April fools!" In big bold letters. Her and my family's reaction was simple priceless.

2) I pulled a prank about sometime early last year or so with a computer voice recording that played when she turn the computer on. The voice, done using a robotic tone, went "Charity... it is I, your computer. I have come alive and I want to get revenge for all those times you used my keys with only six fingers. I insist that you use all ten fingers or I'll reformat my hard drive just to piss you off!". I replaced the default sound for when windows log on with this sound and waited for my sister to turn on her laptop when she had the chance. Later that night, she does so and while I was on my computer doing other stuff, she comes in all spook saying, "Aaron, did you do something to my computer?" I just said, "I don't know what you are talking about?". Then she said, "Are you sure because my computer just said something creepy!" I then confessed and I was roaring with laughter. She just said "Oh, you punk!" and went away. LOL.

3) Back in High School sometime before 2000, I was bored while sitting in my computer class so I decided to do some fiddling with the computer's software. I loaded paint shop pro and an idea had hit me to try to see if I could fool someone with a fake screen. What I did was I took a snapshot of the desktop with the print screen key while a alert box was shown and then replaced the message of the alert box with the message, "This is the devil speaking. I have taken over this computer. If you want it back, you must click OK to give me your soul." After doing that, I showed a classmate it and he said it would be funny to show the teacher that. So I called the teacher over and said "Hey, I think there is something wrong with my computer?". He look at the alert box and his eyes grew as big as sausers. Man, his reaction was simply priceless, LOL!! Anyway, I revealed to him then that I just created that with PSP and he was pretty mad. He told me, "Don't you ever do that again!" and went away. My classmate was laughing his *** off.

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Screenshot of the desktop, place as background, and hide desktop icons. It makes people pull their hair out

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On one of the school computers in 6th grade, I changed all of the icons and menu items to open ms paint drawings instead.

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ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

I like making a batch file that puts the net send command on infinite loop. If I'm feeling really nasty, I go to msconfig and put the bat file in the startup list. it will drive them nuts unless they know where to find it.



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On the old POS macs we had at my HS, there was a little exe used to shutdown the computer (it was an actual undeletable file). I would copy it, rename it, change the icon, and place it on the desktop labeled "Games" or "Porn" or somesuch. Or I would send it through the network to one of the other kids in computer class and say "hey, this is cool, check it out". Then a few seconds later, "Mr. Still, my computer turned off!". I put in the startup folder also.

I am permanantly banned from Circuit City for changing the screensaver and logon passwords on the display PCs (the original password was the Circuit City store number). I also changed the virtual memory to 1 and restarted the PCs. I'm no longer permitted to enter Circuit City #3472.

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how did they catch you?

just for fun, grow a beard and try going in and see if they reconize you.



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Yep. Did that to my physics teacher.

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I changed all the local Staples computer screensavers to "SHOP BEST BUY!" It got a chuckle out of all the people working at the time.

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"Honey, you got real ugly."

After doing it on a half dozen different ocassions, I got careless and got caught by the manager on the "Users and Passwords" page.

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still, grow a beard and go in. Do they have your picture posted someplace? even if they do,
you may be okay. The turnover rate there is pretty high, so chances are, the floor manager that caught you has been moved to another store or quit since you got banned. The sales people there work on flat comission and they have more important things to do than watch for you and narc you out. People like that are usually just temp-worker whinos, or part-time HS kids on the weekends. Not the sharpest tools in the shed, by any means.

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1. why would you do that to your mother.

2. see 1.

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Set autocorrect in MS Word to replace "to" with "you are stupid".

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Yah, that one's a classic.

Also good is the "slippery mouse", which basically makes the mouse pointer slide all over the screen when you try to move it... good stuff.

If there are computer-illiterate people going to be using the computer, move the start bar to the top of the screen. It really pisses them off, because they don't want it there but they can never figure out how to move it back down. As well, you can stretch the start bar such that it takes up half the screen, or you can hide it. Simple, but hilarious.

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"The interesting thing about video games is the way you can take about 50 shotgun blasts to the head and be instantly healed by a little white box with a cross on it."

(this is inspired by a similar event, i don't remember where i got the idea)

I managed to get the network password to my school, so I set every printer in computer lab to print out 4000 pages saying FEED ME PAPER in about a size 40 font.

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I generally "behave". However, my brother once set up a network-wide system message that went through the ZeroWing Intro cutscene (i.e. All Your Base Are Belong to Us!!!).

Also, I'm not to averse to printing off huge (100s of pages) documents, presuming it's not a password-logged network (so I stopped doing this now that I'm in college)

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I remember, in grade school how easy it was to surf the web, even though it was disabled.

We also make files within files within files about 20 or 30 times over, and then put a shortcut on the desktop and replace the shortcut's icon with something ok, and renamed the file to some other name. They never found any of our games, hacking files, or any of the network tools.

Another fun thing is using MSWord's Netsend feature. Good times.

JediKirby

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Live on, Adam.

One day before a computing lesson me and my friend went around every computer and swapped the keyboard and mouse and monitor with the computer next to it.

Because the input and output devices have been swapped, you don't notice anything wrong... until it crashes (Which those computers liked to do, a lot.) and you have to hit the reset button. You hit the reset button on the computer in front of you and the one next to you goes off

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i once took all the hardware out of my case of my computer and took a dump inside of it. i thought it was funny.

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Ah yes! I remember messing with cords like that... Another good one was removing the ball from a mouse (back in the good 'ol days before optical mice were standard).

Of course, In more recent years, computers were loaded with the "DeppFreeze" program to erase any changes. Fortunately, I could just install inside the WINDOWS folder, and it left everything alone, so I could install and play games there. Also, most web filters grade schools use only block domain names. Thus, I merely needed the IP address of a blocked site (from a computer that wasn't blocked), and I could go anywhere.

Unfortunately, with the advent of Windows XP Service Pack 2, my college has managed to make all the computers incabale of doing anything that doesn't use Microsoft Office or Internet Explorer... All access to drive C: is blocked, and only Microsoft programs can access the Internet. D***! I'll find a way arround it sometime...

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Prepare for fun, I shall explain to you how to get around most barriers with Win2k/XP.

A. I assume when you go to My Computer (If you even can), the C drive does not appear? There are 2 ways around this:
1. Go to internet explorer. Type C: and hit enter, see if it works.
2. IF IT DOESN'T, do this. Right click on the desktop. Go new > shortcut. For the location, type c:\ and hit enter. Give the shortcut a pretty name, and finish. Voila, access to C drive.

B. Now, with your access to the C drive, you can have a hell of a lot more fun. Hopefully your account is labled "administrator" or under the "Administrator" group. If so (the account can be limited immensely, it doesn't matter), do this. Go to the C:\WINNT\system32 folder.
C. Find compmgmt.msc. Run it, and when it opens (if it doesn't let me know. That's when it is REALLY restricted, then it gets horridly ugly to crack. Rarely it is, however, as long as you are in the administrator group), go down to Local Users and Groups. Open that, and go to the users folder. Find Guest. Double click on it. If the "Account is disabled" box is checked, uncheck it. If not, leave it. Now, go to Member Of, and click Add... . Add it to the Administrators group, and click OK on everything.
D. Go back to the system32 folder, and find cmd.exe. DO NOT RUN IT YET. Right click it, and create a shortcut. Right click on the shortcut, and go to properties. Click on the shortcut tab, and check "Run as different user". Okay it.
E. Run the shortcut. A windows will pop up asking for a username and password. Tell it you would like to run the program as: Username: Guest. Password: (Either nothing, or guest. I'd try guest first.) Domain: Don't touch, it's fine. Hit okay, and you should have command prompt.
F. From here, you now have full unrestricted access. Anything you run from command prompt will be run as an Administrator. Type explorer and hit enter if you wish to browse the computer without restrictions. Type regedit if you want to remove the restrictions completely from registry. I think you can figure it out from there.

If this scares you in any way, know that my experience is from breaking my school's restrictions over the past 3 years with a dedicated team of linux and windows buddies. Together we took down internet restrictions, system restrictions, (we all had laptops provided by the school) and had our bit of fun also.

For example, this wonderful trick:

Kid is in class taking notes on his laptop. Nature calls. He asks the teacher to go to the bathroom. Thinking quickly, me, and one of my buddies grab it. Of course, the kid did not lock his computer down (we are all taught how, so that's not why. He was just stupid.). We first do the commonplace manuever. We take a pic of his desktop, and make it his background. We then remove his icons via active desktop options. (So it looks as if the icons are there, but non-functioning.)
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. We open up Task Manager. We find explorer.exe. We end the process, and voila, no more task bar. No more start menu. That means, NO FIX FOR HIM. (Well, we know, but most don't. CTRL+ALT+DEL, open task manager, use the run command in task manager to restart explorer.)

Needless to say, he was pissed. He thought his notes were lost. He was about to take the battery out before we stopped him

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net send * TEACHERS ARE SATAN

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Hahahahaha! oops.

One really cannot get away with that here at CSUSM. We're able to track down stuff like that in no time. I accidently did a bcast on the UNIX machine. 5 minutes later I get an e-mail from UNIX admin saying "Don't do that again." If I do a "net send *" I can expect to have network access stripped for a brief period of time. CSU San Marcos is on top of things.


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Modified the hosts file on a collegue's computer to resolve all his IE favourites to a series of dating/porn sites

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Pagewizard_YKS: "making your own lightsaber doesn't make you a nerd... "

My friend was being a moron goofing off in MSWord, and he was just typing random things like "MY PENIS IS HUGE!!!" right then the teacher walks up behind him and I kind of signal the teacher "shhh!" So then I ask my friend if I can type and I type in "Look behind you." he turns around and there is the teacher waving at him..My friend just looks and says "Oh, sh**"

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That's one of my personal favorites, along with reversing the direction of the mouse and disguising icons.

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The best ones I ever did at high school was really basic stuff like NetSend and changing the shutdown screen to read "It is now safe to s*** on your computer"

I never figured out how to do anything special and going to a school where no one knew how to use a computer properly didn't help that. Mind you that's all changed now, I wish I knew some of the stuff I know now back then.



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When I started at ITT, I changed the start button text on a bunch of Windows lab computers to say "gbk was here". The non-IT professors thought we got a virus...they were calling it the "gbk virus".


It struck again the week I graduated.

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Awesome. You could always place .bat files so that upon logging in, they automatically log off. XD

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I love this stuff. I should bookmark this thread.

Me, I've never really done stuff like this, at least at school. Too much of a punishment if you get caught.

Aye, we need sticky threads. This is a must-read.

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"I have no clue why people trust statistics like that. 99% of the time they are made up." - Raoul Duke

Pommy - Yes! That hands down is the best prank you can pull. I've done it to my mom so many times. She gets so frustrated.

Pulling it on people who are fairly computer illiterate is funny.. they understand basic things .. Word.. but not the greater functions of them as AutoCorrect. They never figure it out.

This one time I was at a friend's house, and while he was sleeping I took his computer and went home.

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I have found that you can transform your character solely by the power of belief: as you believe yourself to be, so you shall become over time.

one network for 4 counties? That's f***ing huge. fortunately, it gives you time to get away before people find you.

I used netsend to spam my school's network with bogus advertisements for viagra and Enzyte. I also made up some s*** that you could solicit hookers that will do anything in a certain parking lot on campus after 6 PM.

I then logged off and got the hell out of there before people came looking for me. Never got caught.

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[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited September 01, 2004).]

Back in the days of Win95 and 98, there used to be a .sys file in C:\ that was actually a bitmap that you could easily modify in MSPaint.



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Ummm...it's been years since I've done it, but I think there was a few .sys files in Windows 95 that could be opened up in Paint which were the bootup screen and the shutdown screen. It was just a matter of messing about with it until you got the desired effect and saving it as a .sys, restarting and voila.

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logos.sys

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My friend once replaced my desktop with a pic taken from a tranny-granny porn site and din't tell me.
Heh.

-Your sister has 6 fingers?

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