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Easy and fast prank on windows computers

Easy and fast prank on windows computers

this is an easy prank you can do to a friend that loves his computer... say hes in the bathroom for 15 seconds??

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Step 1First...

first you want to bring up task manager
do this by pressing control+alt+delete

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Sep 18, 2008. 1:19 AM

admin says:

This is a great Instructable, but you need to add a main image of the final project to the intro step. Please do that and leave me a message when you have so that we can publish your work. Thanks!

Aug 9, 2011. 6:17 AMzapper067 says:

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HOW TO DISABLE TASK MANAGER
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Run 'gpedit.msc' without the quotes.
Find System in administrative Templates
Find Ctrl-alt-del options then press + and enable 'disable Task Manager'
To renable Task Manager,simplt put it to 'not configured'.
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Regedit option
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HKCU or HKLM/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/policies/system
Add a DWORD value "DisableTaskMgr"without quotes,the CAPS on D,T and M is a must.Change the value to 1.Renableit just put it to 0.

Mar 21, 2009. 4:19 AMxc1024 says:

Don't forget to hide all the icons first and set a BSOD wallpaper ;-P. Hiding icons is as far as I remember : right-click on desktop, then icon arranging menu and untick Show desktop icons.

Jun 3, 2009. 5:58 PMINSTRUCTUBAL (author) says:

hah, i just tried it on my mom with a BSOD, nice idea. she almost broke into tears because she was in the middle of a very important email haha!

Aug 5, 2009. 5:55 AMxc1024 says:

If you're serious about this, you are really evil.

Mar 21, 2009. 5:19 PMINSTRUCTUBAL (author) says:

nope, you dont have to hide the icons. when you delete explorer.exe the icons and taskbar go away

Aug 5, 2009. 5:58 AMxc1024 says:

Yes, but if you reboot the system, log out then back in, or start Explorer through taskmgr, icons appear again. Icons are hidden to fool even someone more advanced.

Aug 5, 2009. 11:17 PMINSTRUCTUBAL (author) says:

were not trying to give them a heartattack, i mean, whos going to think of opening explorer.exe from taskmanager? and no, rebooting it does nothing, ive tried it and i was scared shitless when i did this to myself accidentally