8 Computer Pranks to Use on Your Co-Workers

1. The classic prank. Take a screen shot of their desktop and set their wallpaper to that screenshot. Then hide all the icons by doing a right click > Arrange Icons By: > Show Desktop Icons.

2. Modify C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts to redirect their favorite website to http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

3. Change their keyboard layout to dvorak.

• Open control panel
• Open the ‘Regional and Language Options‘ applet
• Select ‘Languages‘ tab, click ‘Details’ button
• Click ‘Add‘ check the ‘Keyboard Layout/IME‘ box
• Make sure ‘United States-Dvorak‘ is selected and click ‘ok’
• Under the ‘Default Input Language’ section at the top of the ‘Text Services and Input Languages‘ window, select the Dvorak option
• Hit ‘ok‘
• Hold the left ‘Alt‘ key and hit ‘Shift‘ to switch back and forth between the Dvorak layout and normal keyboard layout

Even those with some computer experience will have a hard time figuring this one out.

4. Create an AutoIT script that will eat away one space bar key stroke every 4 presses.

Opt("TrayIconHide", 1)
HotKeySet("{SPACE}", "EatPress")
While 1
Sleep(100)
WEnd
Func EatPress()
$i = Round(Random(3))
If $i < 3 Then
HotKeySet("{SPACE}")
Send("{SPACE}")
HotKeySet("{SPACE}", "EatPress")
EndIf
EndFunc

5. If you have a linux computer on your network that can print, you can have it print random sayings at 10 minute intervals.

#!/bin/bash
COUNTER=0
while [ $COUNTER -lt 10 ]; do
sleep 10m
fortune | lpr
let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
done

6. Change the users cursor with a middle finger icon every 5 seconds with this nifty software. To close it just move your cursor to the top left corner for a few seconds.

7. Have them see random messages from good ol' Mr. Paper Clip.

8. Give someone a heart attack by setting their LCD montitor background to this.