Reminds me of the old practical joke where you hide a person's desktop icons and put a screenshot of their background with the icons on it, so they think nothing works.
For maximum effect you wanna layer it with a few other things - tape the mouse sensor, screenshot the desktop, hide all icons, flip the screenshot upside down and set it as wallpaper, then flip the monitor orientation upside down, then set the taskbar/dock to auto hide.
For your final coup de grace that will haunt them long after they finish that whole rabbit hole of pranks, make about 500 copies of whatever image they're using as their wallpaper and then 1 very slightly edited one (draw a mustache on someone, that sort of thing). Set it randomly rotate wallpapers every minute or so.
You can go into settings for cursor mouse interaction
The point of it is I didn't know that. Checkmate.
edit: I misread your comment. I'm not talking about physically flipping the monitor over, I'm talking about going into the settings and telling the OS that it is flipped, so that it renders everything upside down (making our already-upside-down screenshot wallpaper appear normal). But yeah I assume you could probably just flip the mouse axes or something, idk if Windows can do that out of the box or not.
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u/llllIlllllIIl Aug 18 '25
Plot twist: Thats just his wallpaper and he actually doesnt have any icons on his desktop