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Best computer prank for roommates

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Originally posted by: Scitex
Download Knoppix, burn to CD and stick it in before shutting it down. When they boot up they'll be running Linux (assuming they boot to CD before the hard drive).

I second this, my buddy did this to a co-worker on a new server being set up to roll out Windows 2000 AD. There wasn't alot of laughter at 1st, but he wasn't fired either.

 
I once changed the standard windows ding sound to a laughing wav file. Then installed an app that made the standard speaker sound card-like capable in software. Wish I could find that little app again. Then every so often I would hear aaaahhahahahahah from where I was sitting and curses followed hehe.
 
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
Originally posted by: jhu
install remote control software on their computers and control them from anywhere!!! hahahahahaaa!!

yeah install remote desktop privileges and demote their user account to regular User. you'll have admin from your desk, and then can toy with them forever 😀

man someone did that to me b4...and he saw me looking @ pron and stuff from his comp..he can see what i was doing..goddamn it!!! and then my computer went black..and text started to come out "i am God, stop masturbating...you LOOK DOWN UPPON ME!"...for a split second...i was scared sh!tless

AHAHAAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAHAAAHAHAHA
 
Originally posted by: theNEOone
go in word and do the spell check auto replace. i did this to my roommate. me and my other roommates were fvking cracking up.

i.e. have "the" autochange to "buttsex", have his last name auto change to "IsGay" so all his reports are titled [First name here] IsGay, etc etc etc the list is endless.

OH MY GOD! You sir have made my day 😀
 
Set auto scheduler to run a script that net sends to all other PC's every 5 minutes "Are you there?",or to run defrag every half hour.
Get a firewall block certain ports (Say, MSN Messenger, but IE still works) or block certain websites (like, block Yahoo)
Remap keyboard to use Russian or something instead of English
 
One more...

There used to be this website, if you went to it it continually popped up this picture of a guys big red inflamed pucker hole. I mean, pop up pop up pop up. You couldnt close then fast enough. Essentially, it was log out log in to satop it.
Set that as there homepage 😀
 
Originally posted by: dethman
yeah you're a dumbshit. 😀 j/k.

<-- med student who personally knows 3 dental students who couldn't get into med school so they went to dental school. 😀

yeah those are the guys that are driving our suicide rate through the roof. I hope you enjoy your residency 😀 jk.
 
Make a shortcut to "rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation" and give it the same icon as IE and place it on the desktop while hiding the real IE icon.
Replace the Windows start-up .wav file with a long annoying .wav file.... like... Macarena.
 
Simple and effective; switch their PSU default voltage from 110 to 220V DC and watch them cry over "dead" computer.
 
Right click on My Computer
Click Manage
Right click on Computer Management (Local)
Click Connect to Another Computer
Enter computer name
Click on Disk Management
Right click on DVD/CD rom drive
Click Eject
 
Originally posted by: her209
Right click on My Computer
Click Manage
Right click on Computer Management (Local)
Click Connect to Another Computer
Enter computer name
Click on Disk Management
Right click on DVD/CD rom drive
Click Eject

what will happen?
 
Get a cordless mouse and plug the receiver in the back of their computer, next to their normal mouse.

Now play around with it while they're trying to use the computer 🙂
 
One of my really computer illeiterate mates...I built his PC....everytime I used to visit I would change the sound effects to clips of me and my mates doing impressions of him...or clips of songs he hated....he LOVED it...

He would then spend a couple of hours trying to find the files and delete them because he didn't know about sounds in control panel......or the fact that I had hidden the files and then selected "do not show hidden or system files" and he didn't know how to turn that off either!
 
Originally posted by: theNEOone
go in word and do the spell check auto replace. i did this to my roommate. me and my other roommates were fvking cracking up.

i.e. have "the" autochange to "buttsex", have his last name auto change to "IsGay" so all his reports are titled [First name here] IsGay, etc etc etc the list is endless.

LMFAO!

I did something similar at college, replaced "The" with "The Smelly"....should have seen the notes the teacher wrote on his work...."What does this mean?" "I'm not sure what you are trying to say here!?" when there was things like "The Smelly company is trying to setup the smelly business plan...." he only got a flat pass anyway, which is the same grade he got for every other assignment.....so no harm, no foul!

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Originally posted by: her209
Right click on My Computer
Click Manage
Right click on Computer Management (Local)
Click Connect to Another Computer
Enter computer name
Click on Disk Management
Right click on DVD/CD rom drive
Click Eject
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what will happen?

The CD-ROM drive will eject...I remember doing this to someone at work...everytime I clicked eject...there was a drive whirring noise followed by a huffing....

Jamie
 
There's a website somewhere that makes it seem like Windows is uninstalling and tries to install MAC OS 9(?) in place of it. Goes full-screen so it looks completely real for an unsuspecting n00b.
 
Originally posted by: AnyMal
Simple and effective; switch their PSU default voltage from 110 to 220V DC and watch them cry over "dead" computer.

I did that to my know-it-all computer teacher. He tried convincing all of us that the motherboard was dead. Then I walked over and said "The voltage messed up"...
 
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