PC/Keyboard pranks.

[Melvang]

Have any of you actually pranked your wife/girlfriend/roomate with anything regarding their PC or keyboard? 

The only one that I have done was screenshot and then hiding icons and taskbar on a different side of the screen.  He with nuts for about 2 hours before I had to fix it.  I just made him go smoke so I told him a file got corrupted and I had already gotten a copy of it off my computer to fix his.

Posting this after seeing this thread and having way to many evil ideas going through my head.

[C5Allroad]

I've only really placed the keys in different orders.
This site is full of evil, evil people. I like it.

[katushkin]

Cress.

Find someone who uses your normal office keyboards, and if they take a Friday afternoon off or they are out of the office for a couple of days, put a few skinny lines of cotton wool between the switches of their board, add a healthy dose of cress seeds and add water.

Come monday morning they will have a garden growing from their keyboard.

[sth]

If you have multiple systems side by side and/or back to back, it's always funny to swap which machines are using which keyboard. you can also just change the layout setting -- particularly good if you change from QWERTY to QWERTZ or AZERTY, especially when entering passwords

[fohat.digs]

Find someone who uses your normal office keyboards, and if they take a Friday afternoon off or they are out of the office for a couple of days, put a few skinny lines of cotton wool between the switches of their board, add a healthy dose of cress seeds and add water.

I was going to suggest this, too.

[baldgye]

Did it all the time at school when people would leave there laptops on there desks and everyone was on XP...

login as admin take screen shot of bkground with icons, set as wallpaper, delete all icons and hide the task bar.... good times

[Findecanor]

Phantom keystroker on ThinkGeek. It is out of stock, but here are plans to make one from a Teensy.

[Zeal]

Phantom keystroker on ThinkGeek. It is out of stock, but here are plans to make one from a Teensy.

Imagine playing an MMO/FPS at a mini LAN party with friends. the random mouse movements would screw up anyone's sniping.

[noisyturtle]

A drop of LSD on each cap, then when they start tripping, hit 'em over the head with a brick, strip them naked, and leave them bleeding on the side of the highway while you empty their bank account and rob their apartment. HAHAHAHA SUCH PRANKS, GOOD TIMES!

[IvanIvanovich]

I'm more fond of subtle pranks... like replacing the link select pointer with this:


I also used to love replacing the Windows boot screen with this:

[C5Allroad]

Oooooooohhhh. That looks really evil. I like this thread a lot... I now have a few different forms of revenge. Both on cars and computers.

[Pac Caps]

Find someone who uses your normal office keyboards, and if they take a Friday afternoon off or they are out of the office for a couple of days, put a few skinny lines of cotton wool between the switches of their board, add a healthy dose of cress seeds and add water.

I was going to suggest this, too.

That is just pure evil.

[quickcrx702]

A buddy of mine kept getting viruses on his PC by clicking stupid links when watching porn.  I ended up fixing his PC three times in one month.  This was about ten years ago when we were in our early twenties.  I went over to his house all the time to get drunk and smoke tree, so I couldn't just avoid him.  Plus he always stocked up on top shelf Cognac and Scotch which I drank for free, so I was always stopping by.  I fixed it the first time, no problem.  The second time I fixed it, I gave him a warning to stop wasting my getting f'd up time, and told him to stop doing what he was doing.  The third time, again within a month, I decided to mess with him.  I downloaded a picture of tubgirl, put it in his Windows directory, and gave it an unsuspecting name like system.jpg.  I then opened gpedit.msc, defined a local policy which set his background to the tubgirl image, and also defined a policy preventing him from changing it.

I told him that I would not fix the desktop background for at least a month, and that it was appropriate punishment.  At the time, he still lived with his mom, and he had the only computer in the house.  About a week later, his mom needed to use the computer.  LOL she screamed when she saw it.  I didn't understand the conversation that followed, because they were speaking Chinese, but I heard my name mentioned.  When she asked me if I had anything to do with it, I told her no, and that her son obviously has issues with unusual pornography.  I also said that it's his computer, and that he could change it to something less offensive if he really wanted.  She ended up believing me, and continued to ***** him out, because she had caught him watching porn before.  It took him about two more weeks of searching the internet before someone helped him figure out what I did.  He was pretty pissed off, because his mom thought he was some sort of sicko.  I had a lot of good laughs at his expense every time I came over before it got fixed.

[quickcrx702]

In case you are not familiar with tubgirl, you could do a google search, but I recommend against it if you get disgusted easily.

According to http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tubgirl :

A famous internet photo of a fat asian lady in a bathtub gushing orange diarrhea onto her face and into her open mouth.
Can be found with a quick Google Image Search, but I guarantee you, it will kill your boner.

[TacticalCoder]

I also used to love replacing the Windows boot screen with this:

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Reminds me of a great prank I did with a friend to another friend back in the Commodore Amiga days.

We were at our friend's place and his father called him for some help in the garden or something, telling it would only take a few minutes... For whatever reason we decided to launch "Deluxe Paint" (a pixel painting program) and to reproduce the screen looking like the "guru meditation": so basically red text surrounded by a blinking red rectangle.

To make the red rectangle blink, we set up a "two colors" cycle inside deluxe paint.

And for the text we wrote something like: "Your computer is broken. If you turn it off you will never be able to turn it back on again. Guru meditation #00000025.00000019"

When our friend came back we told him we didn't know what to do, that apparently his computer had a weird problem  :))

His reaction was priceless. First he read the message (we were all young and non-native english speaker) then his eyes went wide open and he looked at us and started repeating: "What should I do? What should I do?". And my friend and I were like: "I don't know mate, but I wouldn't try to restart it!".

Now the real funny thing is that we did that in a few minutes and the resolution we used wasn't even the same as the one the guru meditation was done in and the text/typo of the letters didn't match. But it made the thing even more likely: we were adding "See, that guru meditation looks a bit weird compared to the others, it's looking different", making the thing even more scary  :))

And while he was starring at the screen we were trying so hard not to laugh... It was more than twenty years ago and we're still laughing about it when the subject comes up :)