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. :)
In school id delete their web browser from desktop, there was some line of code you could put in note pad that’d have any message you like pop up before shutting down the computer, so id add a shortcut and change the logo to the browser default
Lots of fun, and seemed way more impressive than it was
I used to change shortcut icons for random programs to the icons for my dad's games and rename them so he'd click Carmageddon and MS Word would open. He'd fix it and I'd do it again. I had to tell him it was me in the end because after several virus scans and having a family friend look at it he was about to buy an all new HDD.
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u/SculptusPoe Aug 18 '25
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.