5 Great PC Computer Pranks

Here are five great computer pranks to pull on your friends for April Fools day.

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Step 1: Remap the Keyboard

This prank remaps letters on the keyboard to other letters. For instance, you can change the "i" key to type a "g" everytime someone presses it. Here are the steps:

1. You must download a free application from RandyRants called SharpKeys and install it.
2. Launch the application and click the "Add" button to add a new keymap.
3. Select the key that you want to map from the column on the left and choose the key that you want o map it to from the column on the left.
4. Click "Write to registry" and either logout or restart the computer to commit the changes.

To remove this prank, just open up the Sharpkeys program again and select the keymap you created and hit the "Delete" button. Then hit Write to Registry and restart again.

dliang says: Apr 9, 2011. 1:30 PM

When I try to download things from RJL pranks, Mcafee says there is a trojan virus in it and deletes it!! wtf??!!

camferret says: Mar 9, 2010. 11:45 AM

Hehe at home and at school if you hit shift+alt+PrtSc it goes in to high conrast mode its sooo funy =P

james4 in reply to camferretMar 24, 2011. 4:14 PM

awwww this is AWESOME

knex_mepalm in reply to camferretApr 27, 2010. 5:07 AM

Scary, I accidentally did this and my dad was like: "What the hell man, you need glasses, stop messing wit it *press shutdown button*"

chamster says: Oct 1, 2010. 7:02 PM

ha ha! : )

blaqhelx says: Feb 4, 2010. 9:01 AM

These are nice but they should have added CTRL+ALT and ARROW key. this flips the display in the direction of the arrow key (i.e. CTRL+ALT & down arrow turn the monitor upside down)

Duct Tape Dude in reply to blaqhelxFeb 15, 2010. 3:51 PM

Does the CTRL + ALT + down work with Vista?

timothymh says: Feb 13, 2010. 6:04 PM

On a Mac to reverse the colors just hit ctrl-option-command-8. Since this is pretty widely known, go to keyboard prefs and go to keyboard shortcuts. Find the screen changing thing and change it to something else. Have fun :)

erikals says: Jul 30, 2009. 3:03 AM

good stuff. Is there an autocorrect feature in OpenOffice.org 3? That's what I use everyday.

mckay23 in reply to erikalsAug 10, 2009. 4:02 PM

yes, there is. it is under tools\autocorrect. the difference between ooo3 and any other (microsoft) writer is that ooo doesn't have pre-assigned corrections. you have to enter every one individually (unless there is an extention for that that i don't know about).