Top 10 Tech Pranks: Harmless and Fun IT Jokes
- Thread starter dkpope
- Start date
theUnforgiven
Posts: 67 +12
Last edited by a moderator:
Sausagemeat
Posts: 1,597 +1,423
Press Alt - F4 just before saving to do final spellcheck.
Also nice for unattended computers, FakeUpdate https://fakewindowsupdate.com/
Here's one! delete system32 Then blame it on that jerk that works in your facility!
Plutoisaplanet
Posts: 1,324 +1,935
I know this is 3 years old (the article was just reposted) but you can do step 3 last to make this much easier.
Daniele 00
Posts: 159 +121
Combine prank n°1 + n°9 (but rotate also the screenshot of the icons)
p51d007
Posts: 4,421 +4,479
April fool's day is for AMATEURS. Everyone EXPECTS a prank/joke on that day.
I'm the joke/prank guy at my office and I don't even bother on April 1st. It's more
fun to watch coworkers wondering what joke I'm playing on them on April Fool's
day, when it turns out the joke is on them, because I don't on that specific day.
I'm the joke/prank guy at my office and I don't even bother on April 1st. It's more
fun to watch coworkers wondering what joke I'm playing on them on April Fool's
day, when it turns out the joke is on them, because I don't on that specific day.
MaikuTech
Posts: 1,128 +190
You be surprised of what you would run into with business supervisors that let employees run the show.
If you want to run a quick funny joke via through computer and not get terminated at the end of the day.
Slap this as desktop wallpaper, hide the icons, start button taskbar.
Move the mouse and keyboard into a safe spot where they can find it.
Watch them shreek in fear, any regular tech savvy will figure out its fake and normally doesn't happen.
Anyone else would freak out and have a melt down for the next 10 minutes.
I get that effect all the time with touchpads as my "lazy" thumbs brush them all the time. If a pad is too sensitive, I activate my "handy" Thinkpad Tablet 2 bluetooth keyboard: no touch pad; just a wonderful optical Trackpoint, and the bonus of larger keys and more "real" keys such as PgUp, PgDn, Home, End, etc since there is more space for keys without the touchpad or adjacent wrist rest areas.
Nobina
Posts: 4,645 +5,738
I used to put a piece of tape over the barcode scanner for one of my colleagues. He's pretty clueless when it comes to these things and we would watch him as he's raising his hands in disbelief. He then calls the maintenance and starts walking around while we take the tape off. Maintenance comes and tries the scanner, it works perfectly and they think he's ****ing with them. He even got fired later cause he was going to the restroom all the time, unsurprisingly for us, he was drinking there thinking we couldn't smell it.
And this middle-aged guy, he's also tech illiterate, I turned his monitor off and he thought it was broken. It's not much of a prank but that depends on who you do it to.
And this middle-aged guy, he's also tech illiterate, I turned his monitor off and he thought it was broken. It's not much of a prank but that depends on who you do it to.
TheBigT42
Posts: 918 +1,040
At one place I worked....A manager pranked one of his employees. He added a speaker splitter to his computer. Then ran an audio cable to his computer. He would randomly play strange sounds on his employee's computer.
The manager informed IT of this so we never "figured out the problem"
This went on for about 6 months until the manager played a clip saying something like "your computer is infected with virus #3820". He called IT and we said we couldn't come look today (know what was going on).
The employee shut his computer down and went home. The manager had to call him and admit what he did.
The manager informed IT of this so we never "figured out the problem"
This went on for about 6 months until the manager played a clip saying something like "your computer is infected with virus #3820". He called IT and we said we couldn't come look today (know what was going on).
The employee shut his computer down and went home. The manager had to call him and admit what he did.
PanfiloTexas
Posts: 31 +21
A co-worker of mine hated George W. Bush, I used group policy to change his wallpaper to a picture of Bush. he would change it to whatever and when he restarted his pc he came back. I would never tell him how to fix it, said he was in IT and should be able to figure it out. After 7 years of, we were bought out by a larger company and lost access to group policy. They absorbed all our old policies. I left the company a few years later. He finally retired 15 years after I change his wallpaper, it followed him around since it was attached to his username. He emailed me after he retired with his middle finger up and said he no longers has to see Bush.
Another thing I would do to people, I won't dare do it on a SSD, well I did and it caused it to fail, I wrote basic batch file that would create a text file copy itself and delete the original. Everytime it copied itself it would double in size. Once it got to the point where it was writing a 1024 meg text file and trying to delete a 512mb text file you computer would become painfully slow. It would continue until the pc locked up or you restart. One guy I drop it into the start menu so it would run everytime he turned his desktop.
Another thing I would do to people, I won't dare do it on a SSD, well I did and it caused it to fail, I wrote basic batch file that would create a text file copy itself and delete the original. Everytime it copied itself it would double in size. Once it got to the point where it was writing a 1024 meg text file and trying to delete a 512mb text file you computer would become painfully slow. It would continue until the pc locked up or you restart. One guy I drop it into the start menu so it would run everytime he turned his desktop.
p51d007
Posts: 4,421 +4,479
One of my favorites back in the old windows 3.1 days, was to set the orientation of the mouse backwards. I'd turn the mouse 180 degrees, set the orientation, then turn it back. It was fun to
watch the look on their face when they would move the mouse left, it would go right, up it would go
down.
One time, when I was working a 911 shift, the midnight person was TERRIFIED of computers. Before hand, we had always done everything by paper. So before she came in, I went into the settings for the screensaver. I set the delay for 3 hours, so it wouldn't kick in until it died down.
I got a phone call about 4am saying I'm going to kill you! I used the markee saver and wrote this to be displayed: "Warning! All data on computer hard drive is deleted, contact your system administrator".
watch the look on their face when they would move the mouse left, it would go right, up it would go
down.
One time, when I was working a 911 shift, the midnight person was TERRIFIED of computers. Before hand, we had always done everything by paper. So before she came in, I went into the settings for the screensaver. I set the delay for 3 hours, so it wouldn't kick in until it died down.
I got a phone call about 4am saying I'm going to kill you! I used the markee saver and wrote this to be displayed: "Warning! All data on computer hard drive is deleted, contact your system administrator".
For prank #1, you don't need to do all this to turn the screen upside down.
For Windows: Right click on the Desktop > Display Settings > Change the screen orientation to Landscape (flipped).
Just press Ctrl+Shift while pressing the down arrow key twice. The other arrow keys also work with Ctrl+Shift. Have fun.
For Windows: Right click on the Desktop > Display Settings > Change the screen orientation to Landscape (flipped).
Just press Ctrl+Shift while pressing the down arrow key twice. The other arrow keys also work with Ctrl+Shift. Have fun.
Athlonite
Posts: 500 +235
Plutoisaplanet
Posts: 1,324 +1,935
StrikerRocket
Posts: 265 +240
This is why I always lock my computer when leaving the keyboard, either at work, or at home where my kids, who don't know much about computers, could wreak havok on it real quick...
Similar threads
Latest posts
-
Samsung's Odyssey OLED G6 is the world's first 500Hz OLED gaming monitor- Daniel Sims replied