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Haunted computer.

The other day I was working on my computer files when this weird thing happend. My screen flashed and my computer crashed. OF coarse i lost all of my files. But then when I logged back on, I had this picture as my background.Either my computer is haunted, or someone hacked it. But either way...how would you take almost like a screenshot while you are working on the computer?And what does this picture mean?
PS THOSE OF YOU LOOKING AT THIS AFTER THE DATE OF 4/29/08 AT 3:20 I NO LONGER NEED YOU TO COMMENT ON THIS PROBLEM. YOU MAY FEEL FREE TO USE THIS PAGE AS A CHAT ZONE, OR TO ASK ME QUESTIONS.

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Sep 20, 2008. 5:13 PMultimatesx9 says:
not as funny as what i did to my sister, she was out of the room still logged on to her account, so i took a screenshot of her desktop, put in paint, saved it in the WINDOWS folder, set it as my sisters BG, hide the task bar and moved it to the side (literally), hide the icons, and you should have sen her face, she kept on clicking, with nothing happening, called me, i said that there was something wrong her desktop, she gave me the pc, i logged on to see if mine was working (to her), went back to hers, and god was she pissed, she saved her GCSE to the desktop, and when she wasnt looking, i unhid the icons, and showed her it worked, she looked away again (at the tv i think) i hid the icons, and kept doing that until she thought that it didnt like her, next day i said how i did it, worst thing i did that day.......
Apr 16, 2008. 3:29 PMkillerjackalope says:
I didn't violate it, promise...
Sep 19, 2008. 10:29 AMPlasmana says:
LOL!
Sep 2, 2008. 8:37 PMREA says:
too easy to do. i can do better.
Apr 17, 2008. 7:03 AMGoodhart says:
Do you have an active Firewall running ? I don't see the icon in the tray, and if you have the default firewall, that is hardly a firewall. Sounds like you have been "invaded"
Apr 29, 2008. 11:38 AMxACIDITYx says:
He totally did this in paint. Look at the Save Icons and the Printer Icons above where it says "doomed". They still have the gray around them from when he copied and pasted them from the Save and Printer icons in the Word GUI.
Sep 2, 2008. 6:12 AMGoodhart says:
nevertheless, I have seen the: edit edit edit repeated button problem on my own machine once. It was quite weird ( MSIE ? )
Apr 29, 2008. 3:33 PMGoodhart says:
Your monitor has much better resolution then mine does I can see. :-)
Apr 29, 2008. 3:35 PMxACIDITYx says:
My monitor is a laptop monitor. I copied the picture, pasted it into paint and then zoomed in =)
Apr 29, 2008. 3:44 PMGoodhart says:
I see. :-)
Sep 2, 2008. 4:38 AMDrCoolSanta says:
You would make out the little grey better on bad resolution monitors. And that it is possible that a glitch might still have the buttons in there.
Apr 29, 2008. 11:44 AMxACIDITYx says:
Also, if you lost all of your files, why would you have a Grade 7 folder with Power Point Presentations in it, 4 Microsoft word documents open, GradeQuick, and Excel. Sounds to me like you're trying to fool us.
Apr 29, 2008. 11:49 AMxACIDITYx says:
And look at the times. Screenie took at 11:52, forum topic posted 12:03. That's enough time to do a Paint touchup and post a new forum topic. It obviously wasn't posted as his desktop background as he said because there are absolutely no icons in front of the word document; not even a recycle bin, which would be there even if he lost all of his icons. Where it says 'ILL", there are way too many spaces before it. Also, the picture isn't the size that a real screenshot is, so it must have been shrunken.
Apr 28, 2008. 11:25 AMxACIDITYx says:
That's quite a prank! IMO, you photoshopped this. Really, I think you did. Multiple edit thingys and pictures in the Save As screen? ... Good one.
Apr 29, 2008. 11:35 AMxACIDITYx says:
... Did you do this in paint?
Apr 17, 2008. 7:00 AMgimmelotsarobots says:
He he he. Yeah, It was definitely a prank.
Apr 16, 2008. 7:09 PMLithium Rain says:
Probably a virus or a trojan.
Apr 16, 2008. 3:27 PMSpl1nt3rC3ll says:
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