Here's some Puter Pranks I've done some of these back in the day funny shit *LOL*
Thanks ·Lord of the Pit·‡
1. In a computer room, swap 2 computer's monitor cables. When people use the computers they will be watching each others screen.
2. Try echoing some strange things into a newbie's autoexec.bat. "This computer has been infected with the newbie virus," or "I'm too tired to work today."
3. In Word 97, holding the ALT key down allows you to move or delete the buttons, even the menus. Move all of the menus so they're out of order, or, for mor e fun, move all the menus into the Window menu. Watch your co-worker go crazy! (Tip: you may want to save a backup copy of the NORMAL.DOT file found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates. Then they can at least undo the damage without having to r e-install)
4. Place scotch tape over a user's mouseball.
5. On a Macintosh, make a new folder. Place it on the desktop, and change the icon to look exactly like the folder in which everything on the computer resides. This folder is usually located on the top right hand corner of the desktop right after booting . Then change the icon of the original folder to be blank, so that there is no icon. This is best done by copying and pasting a little dot drawn in any application like Aldus or Clarisworks. Now change the title of the mimick folder to the name of the har d drive folder's name. Then change the name of the original folder to " ". (Click on the original folder, hitting the return key, let the title highlight, and hit the space bar.) Then move the original folder, which is now changed, to the lower l eft corner. Then move the mimick folder where the original folder previously was.
6. Unplug the mice and keyboard just enough to make them inoperable. Most users will reboot hoping to solve the problem. Time them for fun!
7. Have fun with Microsoft Word's AutoCorrect feature. Try replacing their name with "is a dork" every time.
Using ResEdit, make open "icn18" in the System folder. Take an icon, like the Trash for example (res# -3993) and copy and paste it to the "New Folder" (res# 3999). All the folders will show up as Trash! As will all New Folders created from the File Me nu!
8. On an Amiga try swapping the mouse into port 2. Easy!
9. Take ONE key off the keyboard and take the spring out. A good one is "E" -- see if he or she can write that thesis without it...
10. One of the dumbest keys on the keyboard but one of the best for a great shen is NumLock. Newbies always wonder why "8" always movers the cursor up, and "3" does a PgDn!
11. Put a "Clapper", a sound activated on/off switch, in line with either the CPU or the monitor. Then make any sharp sound to turn the power off. When the user starts banging around, things will mysteriously begin to work again.
12. It is possible to play sounds remotely on some workstations (Sun SparcStations for instance). You can have all kinds of fun playing sounds like flushing toilets and other unual sounds.
13. Run a graphic slide show on the overhead computer projectors found in many computer rooms and large lecture halls. Very effective if done before a large class. You may wish to superglue the drive doors shut as well as all the relevant power switches i n the "on" position and the power cables to the wall and hide the keyboard.
14. Write a small program that prints "Formatting C:" and starts printing a series of dots at interevals afterwards. Simulate disk access by continuously creating and deleting an empty text files.
15. Write a daemon that sends each individual page of a print job to a different printer on the network. Select the printer at random.
16. Rig the spring in a Macintosh floppy drive to fire the disk a goodly distance from the machine upon ejection.
17. Flip the write protection switch to the on position and give it to the newbie. It will keep him occupied for a while!
