Computer pranks?

What have you done to mess with your friends?
I've done the screenshot of the desktop and making it the background and then move the folders somewhere else and

Back in school we had this idiotic system in place on our computers where if you go on a porn site it instantly takes a photo and prints it off in there office. Then they send it home in a letter addressed to your parents.

So naturally the moment THAT got out you couldn't leave your **** computer while in that class cause guarenteed someone would come along and type in some site. You can call that a prank. It was funny just as long as it wasn't you.

^ never knew about that.

once when my friend was away, i changed the mouse to a left handed mouse. this way the right click became left click etc.

I think they only prank I've done was the high contrast thing Southrend posted, but I've done illegal things!

I got into my friends Word settings and got Autocorrect to change "the" to "doughnuts" and "or" to "bananas". It took him about a week to figure out what was wrong and then change it back.

People in junior high used to remove the mouse balls (before optical/laser mice). The next year the mice were glued shut, so you couldn't even clean them

I tend not to talk about my pranks or possible pranks

I remember getting a wireless mouse hooked up to the family computer, then taking the mouse into the other room and moving it randomly when my sister would try to do something.

Honestly I haven't done much to prank people. I remember having prank programs for my own use, but I didn't use them against other people.

I do, however, remember a few pranks that others have done:
- Auto-correcting common words to other words. Works best if it isn't too obvious (ex: the => and | though I remember someone changing something quite common to '****' or some other curse word. Ah, 7th grade.)
- Moving the login window to one corner of the screen so it's hard to see
- Switching monitor, keyboard, or mouse cords with other computers.
- Setting the background to a BSOD screen and hiding icons
- Making the background a webpage, hiding icons. Alternatively, making it a static webpage (just an image) and hiding all icons.
- Tapping the insert key when someone is typing + not paying attention (seriously, who uses the insert key?)
- Changing default sounds (though most public computers seem to keep the sound low now)
- Edit a hosts file to forward a few popular sites (ex - school site, google, yahoo/aol (back in the day), etc) to 127.0.0.1 or some random other address

Though the one I've done before is log into an open wifi spot that hasn't had any router settings changed and block sites / key words on random days. Logged into someone's router and blocked porn, virus, ***, help, and other key words on random days. Would also block access to Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc for other days of the week. It'd be easy to change the SSID for the access point too, and I did one a while back that had dual antennas so I named one Virus and the other Malware.. They stayed like that for almost a year before someone ended up changing them.


Anyway, in general, I don't mess around with people's computers. When I do end up doing something, it's generally harmless and often points out problems with their security. For those who've read this and haven't encrypted any wifi spots you have access to with WPA or higher, FOR SHAME.

No, because he wants to save them up for an April Fools joke on one or all of us poor mods. The travesties we have to deal with!

I actually don't think I've ever pranked anyone on a computer. The last thing I can remember was a rick roll in 2007.

I've gotten lots of good ideas from this thread though...

ooo remember those youtube videos where somebody screams. i remember bib user and i did that to creepy.
so many years ago, i remember creepy always fell out of his chair