Ten epic Windows 7 pranks you absolutely must try
Summary: Ready to get your prank on? This isn't your average, run-of-the-mill Windows prank list, so pull up a chair and stay a while! There's plenty to learn here and lots of laughter to be had by you at your victim's expense!
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Based on another age-old prank, here, you basically create a shortcut on the desktop that looks like the Internet Explorer icon, but when double-clicked, triggers a shutdown mechanism with a message that says whatever you want it to say. Here's how you do it:
1 - Right-click on the desktop, hover over "New," then click "Shortcut."
2 - When the window pops up, paste all of the following into the box:
shutdown -s -t 2000 -c "10 unsuccessful logins have been detected. All information across all hard drives will now be completely deleted unless you click the cancel button below."
3 - Click the "Next" button.
4 - Enter "Internet Explorer" (without quotes) as the name for your shortcut, then click the "Finish" button.
5 - Right-click on your new shortcut, then click "Properties."
6 - Click the "Change Icon..." button.
7 - If you get a pop-up that says your file contains no icons, click the "OK" button. If you don't get that popup, proceed to the next step.
8 - When the list of icons pops up, scroll through them until you see the Internet Explorer icon (reference the picture above), then double-click it when you find it.
9 - Click the "Apply" button, then the "OK" button.
You've now created a shutdown shortcut that's sure to scare the pants off of your victim! You can type whatever you want your message to display, but the unsuccessful logins sounded good to me -- especially the "cancel button" part, since there is no cancel button! Now, if you want to abort the shutdown sequence for them prior to it occurring, then follow these simple steps:
1 - Click the Start button
2 - In the search box, type the following and then hit enter:
shutdown -a
Voila. Now the shutdown has been aborted and you can delete your shortcut no harm, no foul. Alternately, you could create a shutdown abort shortcut that you can double-click, too! Simply follow steps 1-4 from above, except name it something like "abort." Or, if you wanted to go the complete opposite direction (see: malicious and cruel), create the shutdown shortcut and then add it to the startup folder, like so:
1 - Click the Start button
2 - Click "All Programs"
3 - Scroll down to "Startup," right-click it, then select "Open."
4 - Click and drag the shutdown shortcut you created into the Startup folder.
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RE: Ten epic Windows 7 pranks you absolutely must try
Must I install google chrome / firefox
thank you
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[b]Update[/b]: It is due to a lack of support for WebGL in IE, which the barrel roll trick utilizes.
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doesn't work in Linux
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I have followed ZDTv & ZDNet for a looooong time and I still Love It, Awesome job & thanks for the laughs!
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This is Awesome
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My version
Take a scren shot and flip it 180 degrees. Now hide all shortcuts but the new one. Make that picture the wallpaper, and flip the desktop and hide the taskbar. Now it will look like an ordinary desktop except for that icon - move it on top "itself" on the wallpaper, change it's icon to a transparent one and give it a name consisting of spaces (no visible characters).
Clicking all other icons will now have no effect, but clicking that one will make the shutdown window appear - upside down! :D
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RE: Ten epic Windows 7 pranks you absolutely must try
Havent we had enough of LULZ that you think its clever to upset someone, prevent them from working and waste company time and resources undoing them?
I do love a wind-up, but if anyone touched my work they'd get punched in the testicles for their trouble at the very least. I'd expect the same from any co-worker as well. But perhaps here in the UK, we prefer our jokes to come from our leaders, I dont know...
Bad show, Mr Chapman. Are you so irresponsible you cant see the wave of misery and lost resources you just caused publishing this idiocy? Granted its all out there, but most people arent inventive enough to try it without being told.
How about 10 Mac pranks? 10 Linux ones? Oh, my mistake. People who value their computer and/or OS wouldnt touch it with a ****** stick.
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Heh heh!
I'll bet sharing an office with you and Natanael_L is...interesting.
Yeah, interesting. :)
Seriously, thanks for the laughs!
humor lost
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