I pranked a kid at school who claimed to be a tech buff by just turning off his monitor and it had him fooled *rolls eyes*.

Ok now this is cruel and hard to work out depending on your victems knowledge. I take no responsibilty for youe health...

If you are using outlook go to the >Tools>Options dialog and select the "Spelling Tab" click "Autocorrect Options" and replace a common word like your company name, your victims name or my favourite "the" with something else. I've leave the degree of rudeness / funnyness up to you depending on your workplace ;).

Quote: Original post by Dave
I pranked a kid at school who claimed to be a tech buff by just turning off his monitor and it had him fooled *rolls eyes*.

Was said kid later seen heading towards some poor sap's machine with a fork in his hand and a malicious glint in his eye? [wink]

Wire the mains to the keyboard? THAT would be funny. And lethal.

Remote desktop is always fun.

A long long time ago I had to use terminals (I told you it was a long time ago) that just had the numbers marked on the numeric keypads - no arrows, etc. Swapping the 123 row with the 789 row and then watching the reactions of novice users was always good for a giggle.

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Quote: Original post by Dave
I pranked a kid at school who claimed to be a tech buff by just turning off his monitor and it had him fooled *rolls eyes*.

Was said kid later seen heading towards some poor sap's machine with a fork in his hand and a malicious glint in his eye? [wink]

Maybe you have just solved the mystery.

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What else could I do?

It might seem a little extremme, but you could connect a nuclear warehead to his power button. I'm pretty sure that would turn you into a winnar.

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A long long time ago I had to use terminals (I told you it was a long time ago) that just had the numbers marked on the numeric keypads - no arrows, etc. Swapping the 123 row with the 789 row and then watching the reactions of novice users was always good for a giggle.

Rearranging the keys in alphabetical order can be fun too - if the subject isn't a touch typist. If they are - maybe there is a way to remap the key settings to alphabetical order too?

When we were in college, we used to use "net send" to display pop ups on each others screens over the network. Combined with a batch file or excellent timing, this could have hilarious consequences. Eventually some administrator turned it off, ruining our fun.

Perhaps your friend needs a new screensaver.
Bluescreen-screen saver.

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When we were in college, we used to use "net send" to display pop ups on each others screens over the network. Combined with a batch file or excellent timing, this could have hilarious consequences. Eventually some administrator turned it off, ruining our fun.

Oh, some kid at my high-school once wrote a primitive batch file that simply looped infinitely, sending a message to some computer via "net send" -- and this batch was set-up to autostart when you logged in. It was pure evil -- a class came into the computer lab, logged in and one kid started to complain that they've got this annoying, system-modal dialogue on their screen -- the network admin pointed his finger to another kid who was like "WTF? I didn't do anything!"