one of my coworkers, our senior architect, went on vacation this week and i need a good prank to do to his computer while he's gone. so far we've got gluing his mouse to the table and replacing his hard drive with an install of Windows ME.

what's some other good tech pranks?

6/23/2008 10:43:09 AM

Or you could just turn his office into cardboard:
http://www.prankmike.com/pranks/index.php?id=1

6/23/2008 10:50:18 AM

aluminum foil

6/23/2008 10:51:45 AM

Collect all the little paper clippings from three-hole punchers and scatter them all in his desk drawers and all over his desk. Those things get everywhere.

6/23/2008 11:09:01 AM

Have it play a stupid sound every time it comes up

change background to teletubbies

Very very very annoying accidental prank

And a link to something in the right click menue that points to a computer that isnt online so like have it called WinZip and refernse like \\nonrealcomputer\winzip\zip.exe. Every time they right click the computer will hang for 2 or 3 seconds for the network timeout. Or tie it to a computer that is up sometimes and down sometimes so sometimes its fast sometimes its not.

switch m/n keys on keyboard but wont work if hes a touch typist

change the images associated with common icons and the names

most of these are pretty easily figured out, but the middle one the right click one took about a month

You can scare somebody by putting an unbalaced cd in the cd rom drive (stickers)

the old copy paste desktop wallpaper icons

i made a batch/vbs file that would scan to see if I explorer was open and then randomly close it
Have it randomly open internet explorer to some stupid website or have it check to see if firefox was open, then close firefox and go to IE or vice versa

6/23/2008 11:16:46 AM

color the back of his staples pink
small piece of scotch tape over the microphone end of their phone
adjust entire desk/cube up or down an inch or two
place some song or something in the startup folder
drop random stuff from the ceiling - balloons, peanuts, fake money whatever
wall off their cube by enclosing it with cube pieces from somewhere else (add a ladder for bonus points)
switch around inks in their inkjet if they use one (black for red maybe..or switch two colors)
mess with their phone ringer
dull their scissors
take ink out of pins, shorten lead in auto pencils, switch highlighter tubes
cut roll of tape with razor

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"And a link to something in the right click menue that points to a computer that isnt online so like have it called WinZip and refernse like \\nonrealcomputer\winzip\zip.exe. Every time they right click the computer will hang for 2 or 3 seconds for the network timeout."

friend of mine did that. very annoying

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 11:40 AM. Reason : V speak of the devil ]

6/23/2008 11:20:46 AM

replace pens and pencils wil crayons

6/23/2008 11:21:53 AM

put a sticky note on the bottom of his mouse.

6/23/2008 11:30:11 AM

i like the windows ME install idea best of all

6/23/2008 11:39:35 AM

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"put a sticky note on the bottom of his mouse."

i would opt for a small piece of scotch tape

6/23/2008 11:40:27 AM

^^ That's asking to have viruses unleashed upon the office network.

6/23/2008 12:01:43 PM

you can set up that computer to a subnet that doesnt leave the building

securing that wouldnt be a problem

6/23/2008 12:09:38 PM

^


or do what we do

route all outgoing traffic over a squid proxy

6/23/2008 12:16:44 PM

take a screen shot of his current desktop...then move all of his icons to a hidden folder.
replace current wall paper with screen shot of current desktop with hidden folders not viewable. wait until he returns and cant click on any icons, profit.

6/23/2008 12:28:38 PM

somebody here came up with that one too

we also got put a reboot command in his startup list

6/23/2008 12:30:51 PM

stick an active desktop pane on his desktop of something interesting

6/23/2008 12:33:09 PM

put all of his desk top items (stapler, calculator, tape dispenser etc.) in jello mold via the office

6/23/2008 12:34:45 PM

aluminum foil everything in, on and around his desk. then put up a BIOHAZARD sign.

6/23/2008 1:11:42 PM

the windows ME thing is too mean



add something to the scheduled tasks that releases the IP every X minutes.

6/23/2008 2:00:44 PM

post pics/results here

6/23/2008 3:13:56 PM

There was a pretty awesome thread about this sort of stuff in Premium Palace a few years back. It had some great ideas in it. I'm pretty sure a few of the more elaborate ones were from BobbyDigital

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 3:25 PM. Reason : /message_topic.aspx?topic=192022 for the premies.]

6/23/2008 3:24:53 PM

Take a screenshot of his desktop and get that to run at startup maximized.

6/23/2008 5:10:36 PM

Some of the contracts guys in my program did the whole cardboard thing with a roof and all. Then, over the doorway of the house, they hung a large picture of the finance director with some Wizard of Oz-esque scribbles and a giant text balloon saying "[Finance Director] is watching you."

6/23/2008 5:24:49 PM

A modified version of this would be hilarious:
http://lifehacker.com/software/wifi/turn-your-wifi-piggybackers-internet-upside-down-190441.php

Basically for those who are too lazy to click the link, it takes everything when they visit any website (images, text, etc) and flips it upside down.

6/23/2008 6:46:49 PM

my favorite is putting a little clear tape on an rj-45 plug, then put it in and out of a nic

it will be almost undetectable

did it to a coworker, someone told him what happened and he still couldnt see the tape

6/23/2008 7:21:50 PM

configure graphics card settings so that the monitor displays upside-down

6/24/2008 10:56:35 AM

reboot command in his IE/firefox shortcut

6/24/2008 11:19:14 AM

here's what cain's coworker's did to his cube when he got hitched





Of course the guy who masterminded it is the same guy who was behind all of the elaborate pranks that El Nachó was referring to.

6/24/2008 11:23:24 AM

damn that masterminder has a ton of free time

6/24/2008 11:26:42 AM

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"Take a screenshot of his desktop and get that to run at startup maximized."

oh Man that hasn't been said before!!1!

6/24/2008 11:36:55 AM

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"the old copy paste desktop wallpaper icons"

and the ME one

6/24/2008 4:59:19 PM