lord_yoshi
Making fun of you
I just change the keyboard layout to Dorvak. 
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Share your computer pranks!
- Thread starter homeyg
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Chieftain
How about going to the computer that can see what all others are doing and go to a porn site making it pop up on everybodys screen!
Chairman Meow
Class IV
In some places, that could get you killedNew York Knicks said:
hbdragon88
haunted by blackness
I once set fire to my own computer...
Wait a minute...
Uhhh...
One time, in website design, this one girl was really pissing me off. We were arguing over some song lyrics. I thought it said, "let me be a freak" when she claimed that it said "let me be free." And then she called me a freak. Then I notice that she's on Google and this ActiveX dialog box has popped up. I told her to click "yes" on the box. She did...got a blue screen of death...and had to restart.
Wait a minute...
Uhhh...
One time, in website design, this one girl was really pissing me off. We were arguing over some song lyrics. I thought it said, "let me be a freak" when she claimed that it said "let me be free." And then she called me a freak. Then I notice that she's on Google and this ActiveX dialog box has popped up. I told her to click "yes" on the box. She did...got a blue screen of death...and had to restart.
TrailblazingScot
I was kittenOFchaos
Can't say I've ever messed with a computer in this fashion, I regard computers as I regard my car...you toucha my car, I smasha your face. I find the same mentality is coming into play as regarding MY parking spot...
Ok so this isn't that good of a prank, but I'm sure not many people have this.
Try the link.
http://www.google.com/search?q=5+star+voting+php+free&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Again not so great, but what ever
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Try the link.
http://www.google.com/search?q=5+star+voting+php+free&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Again not so great, but what ever
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Chairman Meow
Class IV
Phydeaux said:Ok so this isn't that good of a prank, but I'm sure not many people have this.
Try the link.
http://www.google.com/search?q=5+star+voting+php+free&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Again not so great, but what ever
All I get on that link is a 403 Forbidden error.
Chairman Meow said:
Hmm, I get,
*Error
*
We're sorry...
... but we can't process your request right now. A computer virus or spyware application is sending us automated requests, and it appears that your computer or network has been infected.
We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your computer is free of viruses and other spurious software.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again on Google."
You can use it to scare your "Old-man"
. It's not so great like I said .
The Person
Deity +2
Lots of good pranks in here... I'll use some of them on my brother. He's not a computer illiterate, but I'm the guy everybody in my family calls when they have problems.
BTW, where can I get that "net send" utility mentioned?
BTW, where can I get that "net send" utility mentioned?
Jamesds
Great Scientist
A hilarious one which fools any computer illiterate person.
Make a call to the exe, (I made it in QBASIC) I included as an attachment, in AUTOEXEC.BAT. When the computer loads up...suddenly...your worst nightmare comes true
- hard disc destroyed and cannot be read 
!! The large desription is to emphasise the 'seriousness'.
Great for April fools - tried it on my dad that night, he had me out of bed trying to fix it!!
To exit (and signal your retreat from the room!!) type Backup (case-sensitive) at the c:\> prompt.
I think the app is virus free, but do check, and please try it on someone!!
Make a call to the exe, (I made it in QBASIC) I included as an attachment, in AUTOEXEC.BAT. When the computer loads up...suddenly...your worst nightmare comes true
- hard disc destroyed and cannot be read !! The large desription is to emphasise the 'seriousness'.Great for April fools - tried it on my dad that night, he had me out of bed trying to fix it!!
To exit (and signal your retreat from the room!!) type Backup (case-sensitive) at the c:\> prompt.
I think the app is virus free, but do check, and please try it on someone!!
The Person
Deity +2
@homeyg
Thanks!
@Jamesds
I gotta try that as well...
Thanks!
@Jamesds
I gotta try that as well...
I never made any pranks, but I spotted some ways you could.
1 - Back in the DOS days, create any text file, and put the first 2 letters as MZ. Then, just type jibberish. A few extended ASCII characters add a nice touch, too. 2-3 lines will suffice. Rename it to a .exe file, and put it in the autoexec.bat file. DOS will choke when it tries to run it since it's not a real exe. Not sure how WinXP would respond to that.
2 - Once, WAY back when I had Win 3.11, I was playing around with sound effects. One was the sound of glass (window) breaking. I had my speaker volume turned up, and when mom heard it, she thought I actually broke something.
3 - "How to trick an old programmer". This one is simple, yet hilarious. Take a screenshot of an error window, and paste it into a paint program. Either leave it there, or save it as a gif file for a desktop wallpaper. When someone walks in and sees it (in my case, I had a screenshot of an error message open since I was testing something at work when the other programmer saw it), laugh as they try to click the "window".
1 - Back in the DOS days, create any text file, and put the first 2 letters as MZ. Then, just type jibberish. A few extended ASCII characters add a nice touch, too. 2-3 lines will suffice. Rename it to a .exe file, and put it in the autoexec.bat file. DOS will choke when it tries to run it since it's not a real exe. Not sure how WinXP would respond to that.
2 - Once, WAY back when I had Win 3.11, I was playing around with sound effects. One was the sound of glass (window) breaking. I had my speaker volume turned up, and when mom heard it, she thought I actually broke something.
3 - "How to trick an old programmer". This one is simple, yet hilarious. Take a screenshot of an error window, and paste it into a paint program. Either leave it there, or save it as a gif file for a desktop wallpaper. When someone walks in and sees it (in my case, I had a screenshot of an error message open since I was testing something at work when the other programmer saw it), laugh as they try to click the "window".
Chairman Meow
Class IV
Tried it in Win2K (though without putting it in autoexec.bat), and it gave the following error message:Chieftess said:
So, apparently, it works.
Done that. In my case, I sucessfully (I'm not sure how, though...) convinced someone that their printer was about to print 30,000 pages of pi... I took the screenshot by sending 30,000 pages of pi to the printer, then pulling the plug on the printer before it could print out too many pages.Chieftess said:
I also have a screenshot from Windows 3.11 of an error dialog marked "MS-DOS Error 25: Unknown MS-DOS error.", with buttons Abort, Retry, Ignore. I never used it for anything, though. (turned out that the error was from attempting to access a floppy drive that didn't have its power cable plugged in.)
The Person
Deity +2
Hmm... maybe I should write a program that writes out an error message with an OK button. When you press "OK", the same error box opens again, so you have to close it via Ctrl-Alt-Del.
Chairman Meow
Class IV
Or you could just be lazy and use VB.homeyg said:That would be the easiest thing in the world to do (once I learn the Windows API).
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