So my roommate ordered a shiny new Dell desktop. It just arrived UPS, and he won’t be home from work for several more hours. I work as a computer geek, and the temptation to pull a prank is irresistable. So far, I have come up with the following ideas:
Put a ton of porn links in his favorites.
Swap out the hard drive for one I have sitting here that has an old busted Windows 95 installation on it.
Tubgirl wallpaper. For those that don’t know what this is, consider yourself lucky.
About 500 AOL shortcut icons on his desktop, in his start menu, etc.
A note in the box from the Dell Dude asking where he might score some pot.
Sneek a remote access program onto it, and use your computer to control it and make it do funny things when he is using it.
Or do PrintScreen of the desktop, set that as the wallpaper, and hide the start bar and icons. Watch as he clicks around in frustration, or tries the standard windows fix - restarting the machine - over and over.
Darn it! DreadCthulhu stole the wallpaper idea, which I’ve always wanted to do.
How’s about renaming his icons to weird stuff–not necessarily nasty but maybe rename everything “Moe,” “James,” “Molly,” “Emily,” “Robert”–just normal names.
Or misspell the icons’ names slightly so that he may never notice and if he does he will think he’s crazy. Like “My Comuter” or “My Document” or something.
One I used to love doing was to take a screenshot of his desktop with My Computer, IE etc icons on and then set it as the desktop. Then remove the icons (right click on desktop -> properties -> desktop -> customize -> remove all the icons). It looks normal but no amount of doubleclicknig can get him into his computer.
Change all the sounds to sirens. Put a really loud wave file in the startup folder and crank the volume up
Nick his external power cables or disconnect the internal ones
Pasword potect IE’s security settings to maximum with parental lock. Make his IE homepage a popup hell
Go into the control panel under systems settings and turn ALL the hardware acceleration off. Route the sounds through the internal speakers while you’re there. In fact, why don’t you just turn off anything remotely useful in the BIOS (after writing the settings down, of course.
If he’s got a fancy sound card, go through the card’s settings and crank the reveb and echo to max.
And my personal favourite:
Take his empty monitor box and place a few cooking pots in it and tape it back up. Shout, “Your new computer here ya bastard!” then drop kick it towards him.
Monty’s right of course…but it would be fun to pull off the keys and put them back on in alphabetical order…or change all the fonts to barcode…
No, Monty is right. I’d want to use my new toy right away, not start out frustrated and mad. And I’d blame you forever whenever anything else went wrong.
Tubgirl. Truly the most disgusting photo in the known universe, bar none.
I once made that my roommate’s wallpaper when he was away from his computer once. Yeah, it’s easy to remove, but it’s a shock when you turn on your monitor and that’s on your screen.
Now I want to see Tubgirl. Just to see if I can live through the expierence. Perhaps I’ll go mad and drive the ship past the barrier at the edge of the galaxy. I think I’ll wait till I get home though.
