Great computer prank

This is an awesome prank to do at your work place or school. your prankee wil be clicking for hours.

Step 1: Copy their desk top picture

all you have to do is press the prt scr/syssqr button (the print screen button)

Comments

[tunkenstein]

Instead of moving all the icons to the recycle bin, you can just right-click the desktop to get the option to show/hide desktop icons.

[Dollar1234]

Please , send me all the computer weaknesses..
And i want all the tricks how to hack a computer......

[blodefood]

I did a variation of this one at work.  It was a lot quicker than this and required only a few keystrokes.   Print Screen.  Open Paint, Paste, Flip, Horizontal, View Bitmap.  A few chuckles from your co-worker, nobody gets fired and back to work.

[RGalliath]

Or you can hit cntrl + alt + arrowkey and it will flip the screen up side down.

[RGalliath]

its also fun to change all the link on the desktop. They will be very confused when everytime the hit "internet explorer" it opens up a random file or message or that "special" .bat file you made

[NE patsrock]

funny

[reggad]

Actually, all you have to do is right click on the desktop, go to arrange icons. One item should have a check mark by it saying "show desktop icons". click on this and the icons will disappear.

[king kolton9]

No but then they would know that somethin is up immeadietly. (I know that it's late.)

[freakyqwerty]

thats the easyer way

[chamster]

What i did was i cut and pasted it into my pic. library then if u want to undo it, u right click on it click send to, then click desktop. another copy will appear on ur desktop. though one copy will stay in ur pic. library, unless u delete it.

[jnottingham13]

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[magganrchy]

After you capture the screen ( [prnt scr] button) just go to paint or the like, go to edit, then push paste

[TATcreator]

Wrong!

[Kye37]

Actually that's exactly how its done (press Prt Scr button then open paint then edit paste then save the picture then replace the current desktop wall paper with it.), if you think its wrong can you please explain why you think its wrong :).

[TATcreator]

Please ask the previous commenting user to explain his comment, so that we may explain ours to you.

[Kye37]

I thought he did explain it very well, he said press ptrn button on the keyboard which takes a screen capture, he then said you paste it in paint, did he not?, then you replied to him saying Wrong!, then I asked you why you think what he said was wrong, don't know why I'm pointing all this out because I wrote the same thing in my last post.

[TATcreator]

We apologize, it may have been a misunderstanding. We believe that there was a problem jnottingham left in his comment that magganrchy answered incorrectly, but we cannot recall the comment that was removed.

[Kye37]

Thank you I appreciate you taking the time to clear it up.

[skunkDaDog]

There is a problem, not all of the icons can be cut and secondly how do you paste the image?

[fraggle]

another great prank... go into someone's word program. go to their automatic spell check. add words in there that they will definitely use and make it change them to something else... like, make it change the article "a" to "duck" and "the" to "dog food" did this to a friend once... i don't think he was too happy. but it was funny to me. i think i had about 20 words changed in there.

[totos]

u could rightclick on the desktop select "arrange icons by..." and deselect "show desktop icons" instead of putting them all into the recycle bin.

[azbo1]

Dude all good but there is a program: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/transbar.html
wat u do is put this on th comp then set it to start with windows and if you set the slider to invisible (not 0% opaque) you cant use the taskbar ...

even better

[odama666]

something else you can do after you set that as the back ground is open task manager go to processes and kill explorer.exe . then you can't use the start bar either =]. to get back simply open task manager click run and type in explorer

[xenongamer]

Or you could just have the icons hidden right click :.....Hide icons good prank though! it would stir up the "expert" that would not be able to do anything!

[Transquesta]

The simpler (and decidedly more sinister) method: 1 Download a program which will make the taskbar transparent (Transbar, for instance); 2 Right click and select Hide Icons; 3 Run the program listed above and set the bar to totally transparent, then press OK/close the dialog; 4 Select the previously captured image (or not) in Desktop Properties and click OK.. You're done. Unless your hapless victim has a program launcher running in the background someplace, his/her ONLY way back into the computer will be through the right-click menu or by pressing the Windows button on the keyboard. I figure this is good for about a minute or so of stark panic for the average user. :-)

[wannabeharleyguy]

If you want to get creative with it take a screen shot of the screen saver instead of the desktop and then set the taskbar to auto hide.

[Aar000n3y]

This has been done already

[LMO]

You can also right click on the desktop and unclick "show icons" under "arrange icons" to get rid of the real icons in this step. It's a little bit quicker this way.

[JonRisk]

If you right-click anywhere on your desktop you can hide the icons easily without deleting them to the recycling bin. Just right-click and unclick the "hide" button to undo the prank.