The Old Frozen-Screen Prank

This is a nice April Fools prank that will result to the victim lobbing many calls to tech support. The trick is that when the victim tries to click on an icon on his/her computer the computer will not respond to the clicking. In fact it won't even highlight the icon.

This is for the April Fools Contest so please vote for it. Thank you

Step 1 Requirments

You will need
1. A computer that can hide the icons. All windows can do this. I use a XPS 400 which will hide the icons
2. Victim

Comments

[Pe-ads]

Lolage! I have to try this on someone sometime... though to make it look real you'll either have to cut the Windows bar from the bottom, or hid that. Hiding it would be funnier, because then they couldn't even access the Start menu. :D

[snaketon]

you could access the start menu by pressing the windows button on your keyboard

[RGalliath]

the funny part is people arnt smart enough to know that.

[Pe-ads]

I know, but it would still be funny. Besides, when their mouse moved to the fake Taskbar, the real Taskbar would pop up anyway.

[Super_Nerd]

Deactivate the taskbar, and then put it at the top of the screen. Then let them struggle to make their computer run.

OR!

Kill the explorer process. This way the start bar is gone until you restart explorer or the computer.

[Pe-ads]

Yeah, not sure why I didn't think of that the first time :-P

Killing Explorer is much more fun >:-]

[chicken run3]

in windows 7 i believe it will start itself if the system finds the process missing

[Super_Nerd]

I tried it before and it didn't start itself. I started it later. And later when i rebooted my machine, it told me that the explorer process had recovered from a shutdown.

[Poiujm]

you can also auto hide the start bar to get more madness

[rhino]

The easiest way is just to display your screenshot in an image program using full screen display. Even your task bar is covered. I take a screenshot of the desktop. I do this a lot and it leaves people scratching their heads until they figure out to right click and get the menu to exit the program. I use ACDsee.

This is a great instructable though. I did not know you could hide your icons.

[snaketon]

i know a quicker way;
right click and go to arrange icons by and the un-tick show desktop icons!
its much quicker!

[alexplay123]

dada :)

It's preety good....

[chamster]

How do u hide the icons?

[knexguy92]

Right click on the screen, click "arrange icons by", then click "show icons" (which should have a tick next to it) and then the icons will disappear.

[chamster]

LOL!! I HAVE to play it on my little bros! They are crazy about their computor time. So they'll be freaking out when i play this on them!

[ducktape.mac]

hey if you have little brothers than you can take a screen shot of your desktop and just leave it open. this takes all of three seconds. but if your brothers are over like 7 then they might figure out pretty fast.

[dark sponge]

 Better yet, end explorer.exe from the task manager. Now the taskbar doesn't work either!

[jules15]

sweet thx

[knex_mepalm]

 permanently?

[dark sponge]

 Only until you you go to task manager > new task > explorer.exe or until you reboot the computer

[myrrhmaid]

Oh You wouldn't! That is a hilarious prank! I can't wait to try it on an unsuspecting someone! Thanks for the laughs!

[zitz]

that pc looks like mine on the inside