Ways to screw with a PC running WinXP

[Guest Smues]

I've only got two days left to fuck with one of my co-worker's machines. He's not very computer savy so fixing anything I do takes him a long time and makes me laugh. I'm not looking to do anything that'll really fuck up his machine, just annoying things I can do. I've already fucked with all the accessibility options (sticky keys, filter keys, toggle keys is particularly awesome, and high contrast mode too) and changed all his windows sounds from the default beeps and bloops to "doh," "huzzah," and playing the Reading Rainbow theme when he boots up.

 

So what other minorly annoying but utlimately harmless tricks are there to fuck with in Windows XP?

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

Obviously change the wallpaper and screen saver.

 

 

Also, if he can't type without looking, move around the keys on the keyboard.

 

Make it so that when it goes to screen saver, he has to type in a password. Make your own password.

 

I'll think of others later.

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

Here's a good one.

 

 

Take a screen shot of the screen (make sure to make sure the cursor isn't visible on the screen while taking the screen shot). Make that the wallpaper. Make sure to hide the the taskbar and the icons.

 

 

They'll try to click on icons and the start menu, but it won't do anything.

[JJMc]

Set his homepage to a big picture of a cock.

[Dandy]

Clever, JJ.

[Guest Smues]

Wanted to move the keys around, but I couldn't get the keys out without breaking the keyboard. The background idea though (of his desktop, not a cock) is brilliant though. I'll have to do that tomorrow.

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski]

Maybe you can can change the OS's default language from English to Spanish.

[OldSchoolWrestling]

Not sure if this is just for laptops as that is what I am on but change his Power Options Properties so that it turns off the Monitor, Hard Disks and Goes to Standbay after 1 minute.

 

Change his Internet Security properties to High. Cookies Privacy to Block All Cookies. AutoComplete Forms with fake names.

 

Use the Scheduler to run programs daily. You can choose the program, such as something goofy like Solitaire.

 

Set up other user accounts with stupid names so that he sees them all when he tries to sign in each day.

 

Change the Mouse settings to either very slow or very fast.

 

 

[ZGangsta]

Here's a good one.

 

 

Take a screen shot of the screen (make sure to make sure the cursor isn't visible on the screen while taking the screen shot). Make that the wallpaper. Make sure to hide the the taskbar and the icons.

 

 

They'll try to click on icons and the start menu, but it won't do anything.

This one is a classic, we made my buddy's girlfriend pretty much start to cry with this.

 

 

Set his homepage to a big picture of a cock.

Fail.

[Guest Smues]

Not sure if this is just for laptops as that is what I am on but change his Power Options Properties so that it turns off the Monitor, Hard Disks and Goes to Standbay after 1 minute.

 

Change his Internet Security properties to High. Cookies Privacy to Block All Cookies. AutoComplete Forms with fake names.

 

Use the Scheduler to run programs daily. You can choose the program, such as something goofy like Solitaire.

 

Set up other user accounts with stupid names so that he sees them all when he tries to sign in each day.

 

Change the Mouse settings to either very slow or very fast.

 

I love the scheduler idea. I'm gonna make a different program run every 10 minutes or so for his last day tomorrow. Awesomeness.

[Guest Smues]

Wow Windows scheduler is awesome, I wish I'd known about it sooner. I just set this machine to load up a bunch of random crap throughout the morning, finishing off with an MP3 of Meet the Mets and then the Reading Rainbow theme. Good times.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

There's a moronic bitch on second shift in my office. She looks at keys when she types, so the girl on days and I switched around the M and N keys. Drove her nuts. Fuck with the mouse sensitivity.

[BX]

Why are you doing this?

[Perfxion]

My favorite childish prank is the same as the fake background.

 

Add a folder, call it porn.

take a screen shot with pointer not visible.

make new picture desktop background.

hide the task bar from fool.

Now they have an unable to delete folder.

[Guest Smues]

Why are you doing this?

A. Because he was leaving,

B. I'm immature,

C. A few weeks ago when I was out of town he thoroughly fucked with my desk. Tied the wheels of the chair to the desk with multiple strings and ropes, unplugged my monitor, and fucked with just about everything possible that's on my desk. Removed the lightbulb from my lamp, jammed my 3-hole punch, jammed my stapler, put tape on my phone and the attachment on my phone, cranked the bass and turned the treble all the way down on my speakers, cranked the speaker on my phone, and fucked with my 10-key so the tape just looped in a circle. And other things I probably haven't discovered yet.

 

It's all in good fun.

[Sideburnious]

There's a way (which I forget) in which you can get the screen to go sideways. I believe it's for those monitors you can turn. Usually it happens when you turn the monitor, but I think there's also a command prompt for it.

[AntiLeaf33]

There's a way (which I forget) in which you can get the screen to go sideways. I believe it's for those monitors you can turn. Usually it happens when you turn the monitor, but I think there's also a command prompt for it.

 

Ctrl + Alt + arrow key (down for upside down, left for left, etc)

 

Always a classic way to piss people off

[JJMc]

Set his homepage to a big picture of a cock.

Fail.

 

 

Yeah, I know. Someone did that to my computer in a programming class in high school. They also made it play a LOUD sound clip on startup that said "I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORN!!."