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So my friend just bought himself a new computer. Now considering the last computer he owned was a P2 200mhz with win 95, he doesnt know too much anymore. I see this as an invitation to play ;) The other day I changed his user account name to assface. He seems to have noticed but Im not sure whether he's worked out how to fix it yet. I was also thinking about changing his welcome screen to a picture of me, but Im not sure of a way to do it without a third party program. I use themexp to change mine but if I were to install it on his system then he'd notice it there in the taskbar and would be able to change the welcome screen back with ease. Do you guys know of any way to achieve this without a program like themexp? Another thing I was thinking of doing was changing some of his cursors to funny/odd cursors, like really funky shit that would make you think wtf? Do you guys have any other pranks or suggestions?
 
One of the funniest pranks ever is to change the normal mouse cursor to the hourglass. Even hardcore computer geeks will take a while to work this one out and it'll probably annoy them even more :)

Also changing the default *ding* sound to something really long can be pretty funny :)
 
This is always a great laugh:

Take a screenshot of his desktop (print screen key)
Set it as the background
Auto-hide the taskbar
Right click the desktop --> arrange icons by --> untick show desktop icons

he'll be there for hours trying to double click the icons in the desktop picture!

There are loads of variations you can do, like adding an extra icon, screenshot, background it, delete the real icon leaving only the image of it. (be imaginative with the icon's name)
 
You could always send him an email containing the link to that site that takes control of your browser, displays images of old men having sex while shouting "I'm looking at gay porn".
 
microsoft made a screensaver where it displays the blue screen of death. Any windows 95 user would be quite familiar with that.
 
i dont know what themexp is, but like all things you can just not have a system tray icon. he may not know how to access programs that dont have icons jumping out at you screaming CLICK ME!

in high school one time we got wasted in this girls house and then my friend sat on her dad's scanner and scanned his ass taint and balls. then he saved the pic in some completely random folder with a disguised name so to speak, and saved it as the desktop background. neither her or her family had any clue how to change it. she got grounded. then her parents made her pay for them taking the comptuer to the computer-repair-specialist people to get it fixed. it just got funnier and funnier.

this was like the win95 days when people were still of the "i dont got the internet" breed.
 
take a photo of the desk behind where his monitor is and set it as the desktop background:
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Back in the days of Windows 98's Active Desktop, we used to do a delayed action wallpaper assault. This involved killing the Active Desktop and setting the wallpaper to gay old man porn or something, then restarting the active desktop, which would place their familiar old wallpaper over the top. Then one day when the active desktop next crashed (as it did frequently), their active desktop's wallpaper would no longer be displayed, leaving the pre-set horrific images to show through =D
 
set his default web page to penis.com

Back in highschool we used to type that in when who ever was using a school computer left for a few minutes or wasn't looking. Given that I went to an all male catholic highschool the results were always hilarious.
 
The one I'd play on my friends back in the win95 days is to take a screen shot of the empty desktop and icons and make that the background. Delete all the icons (or just move them to a folder if you dont want to be a prick), and watch him wear a hole in his mouse button.
 
You could change the shell to the calculator. This is much easier to do in 9x of course from within system.ini, but it can be done with XP also.
 
You could also create a static mapping in their HOSTS file so their current homepage always goes to another site... lol.
 
You guys have some great ideas, I will definately be implementing some of them! About that vnc though, he currently isnt connected to the internet and by the time he is I will be out of the state so I wouldnt be able to configure it on his end. Shame really because that would have been some fun!

DrugPhreak said:
You could also create a static mapping in their HOSTS file so their current homepage always goes to another site... lol.
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Interesting, can you provide more of an explaination?
 
Format his hard drive. That'll surely gain a reaction worth filming.

Failing that, change the mouse controls & language options then hide access to the control panel. Punch in the face imminent :)
 
Ohh, I just remembered a cool one. If you go into the mouse settings, you can "calibrate" the direction of the mouse. Presumably this is so if you hold the mouse at a slight angle it will still move the cursor up when you move your hand upwards. So if you go into this configuration utility and set it so, say, a 4 o'clock motion equals up, it can be pretty difficult to even get back into the control panel to change it if you know that's what's up.
 
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