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Funny tricks to play on someones computer??

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Originally posted by: Pacemaker
Oh yeah and

Ctrl+Alt+Up ; normal landscape screen orientation
Ctrl+Alt+Left ; 90 degree screen orientation
Ctrl+Alt+Down ; 180 degree screen orientation
Ctrl+Alt+Right ; 270 degree screen orientation

Usually messes with their heads
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... That only controls my Winamp.
 
Originally posted by: sisq0kidd
Print screen the deskop. Save it to a jpg file.

Right click on desktop, don't show icons.

Auto hide toolbar, put it on top.

Set the background to your print screened jpg file.
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that's what i did to my friends' computers all the time. it was quite funny to see friends getting frustrated.
 
Next thing I'm going to do is change their mouse speed to incredibly low (with annoying trail!) and then flip their moniter 90 degrees.... should be good 😉
 
It can be fun to set their background to, say, bananaphone, or badger badger badger. You'd be surprised how many people have trouble figuring out how to get rid of it.
 
Putting in a live cd linux distro, like knoppix, and setting the bios to boot from the cd drive works wonders.
 
I did this one to a buddy of mine.

There is an .exe that is flash, It comes on with a wicked siren sound and the screen flashes, "I AM GAY" in huge bold letters.

I put it in his startup folder and cranked his speakers to the maximum.

Well, at 9:05 his PC finally fired off the siren, he was at the coffeemaker about 30Ft away and I nearly pissed my pants watching him do the kenyan dash for his cubicle.

I don't think I will ever laugh that hard again in my life, there were literally 20 people around his cube by the time he got to it.

Dave 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Hammyton
I need to play some tricks on some friends and coworkers to just lighten the mood up at least here, its fricking dull 🙁 I've been reversing peoples left and right mouse buttons but thats getting old! any other ideas??
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edit command.com
 
Screen cap their desktop. Then hide all icons, and taskbar. Set screen cap as the desktop.

You sit back and laugh as they try to click "start" and their icons.

I know this was suggested much earlier, but I would have to say this is the most effective and easy thing to do.
 
Originally posted by: lokiju
Originally posted by: lozina
Originally posted by: Pacemaker
Oh yeah and

Ctrl+Alt+Up ; normal landscape screen orientation
Ctrl+Alt+Left ; 90 degree screen orientation
Ctrl+Alt+Down ; 180 degree screen orientation
Ctrl+Alt+Right ; 270 degree screen orientation

Usually messes with their heads
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doesnt do anything on my laptop
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Doesn't do anything on my desktop.

WIn XP Pro FWIW
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This is a feature of Intel integrated graphics drivers. It'll work on practically every beige box office machine(unless the person who built the image turned it off); but your mileage may vary with other systems.
 
Originally posted by: Tiamat
Screen cap their desktop. Then hide all icons, and taskbar. Set screen cap as the desktop.

You sit back and laugh as they try to click "start" and their icons.

I know this was suggested much earlier, but I would have to say this is the most effective and easy thing to do.
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Another for this idea. Also, it can be even funnier if you put a 'Horse Pr0n' folder on their desktop and watch them desperately try to delete it.
 
Originally posted by: sisq0kidd
Print screen the deskop. Save it to a jpg file.

Right click on desktop, don't show icons.

Auto hide toolbar, put it on top.

Set the background to your print screened jpg file.
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Did not know about that one, that is going to make this trick even sweeter (used to move icons to a different folder).
 
right click internet icon (IE, Firefox, w/e) go to compatibility, check "run in windows 95 mode", "run in 256 colors", "run in 640x480 res" then click apply. sit back and watch them go nuts
 
Originally posted by: TheoPetro
right click internet icon (IE, Firefox, w/e) go to compatibility, check "run in windows 95 mode", "run in 256 colors", "run in 640x480 res" then click apply. sit back and watch them go nuts
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What OS are you doing this on?
 
Originally posted by: akshatp
Originally posted by: TheoPetro
right click internet icon (IE, Firefox, w/e) go to compatibility, check "run in windows 95 mode", "run in 256 colors", "run in 640x480 res" then click apply. sit back and watch them go nuts
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What OS are you doing this on?
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windows XP
 
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