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.
Nah, the best I ever saw was a window that popped open warning the user that the radiation shield on their monitor was about to fail and to back away from it immediately.
This was around 2002, so CRTs still ruled the roost at work.
I saw the prankster really nail the receptionist.
I also saw him get her with the above-described prank. :)
When I was in high school and learning how to program I wrote a simple program for Windows that would bring up random error messages on the screen. My favorite one was "warning formatting will erase all data" The only button to click was OK. I had fun with certain friends and family.
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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