AHUNTER3
That is so funny. And as fate would have it, this particular individual has an iMAC sitting right next to his PC. Oh life is good. I will come back to this thread monday morning with the results 
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Open up the mouse and put a piece of tape over one of the wheels inside. The mouse will then move along only one axis, and there is no obvious external signs of tampering.
Oooh, computer fun
Change his keyboard settings to something exotic.
Set his mouse speed to “glaciar”, and his double click speed to “hummingbird”
Get a bitmap of the bluescreen of death, and set that as his screen saver
Turn up the volume, and set the beep sound to something interesting. You can find a clip of Meg Ryan in the diner from “When Harry Met Sally” pretty easily.
Evil- change the bios settings so the computer is unstable. Changing ram access speeds, processor settings, etc. will usually cause the computer to run, but crash much more frequently.
Open his case and losen a few connectors.
Swap his hard drive with one that has a clean install, set to his configuration.
Disconnect his power button.
You could always try this on for size…
How about editing the hosts file to point www.google.com to a porn site?
And, ofcourse, remote control apps like VNC are great.
Thaaaaaaanks Beagle… good thing I could find my way out of that. That would irritate some people quite a bit I believe.
Very bad idea. Mr Cazzle says you run the risk of destroying the CPU.
Don’t know if this works on newer computers, but on older ones that actually did boot using autoexec.bat and config.sys (newer computers just have those files for backward compatability). At the end of the autoexec.bat file put in a line that says “autoexec.bat” When the computer is turned on it will reboot and reboot and reboot and reboot. It’ll run the autoexec.bat file in a loop until someone hit’s CTRL Break to get out of it.
I agree, not a good idea to make the computer unstable through BIOS settings. However, you can safely make it run as fast as a 386 by turning off the memory cache. 
Plus, there are usually other “safe mode” settings in there that are less than optimal but are there to fall back for diagnostic purposes, though monkeying around with them is not a good idea unless you know what you’re doing.
Don’t know if this one qualifies, but about a year or so ago a friend sent me an e-mail which asked how hot it was, and asking me to click on a link. When I did, everything on my screen “melted” and ran toward the bottom.
To stop it all you had to do was hit the ENTER bar.
Anyone remember that one and what it was called?
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I went to the site beagledave linked to and do not understand this comment:
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Do the rest of you folks get something different from a make-believe dialog about uninstalling Windows and preparing to install MacOS 8, with an never-ending sequence at the bottom of the screen about number of files being removed? What’s to find one’s way out of? Are you prevented from clicking the “close window” box? Am I being wooshed here?
After a few seconds of the scrolling text, your browser should go full-screen with an animation of the Mac OS loading, after which your screen should display a standard Mac OS desktop, with draggable icons and usable drop-down menus. In this full-screen mode, the taskbar, nav buttons, and menu bar are inaccessable (Ctrl-Alt-Del still works, as does Alt-F4). You “find” your way out by clicking on the Trash can and clicking the crumpled Windows banner in the window that pops up. This is done with a good deal of CSS and JavaScript, so, depending on your browser and its settings, it may or may not work correctly. (I know it works on Windows versions of IE 5 and newer. It probably won’t work correctly if your browser can’t go to full-screen mode.)
I have a platform exchange of my own, but it is very involved. You use a Macintosh emulator set to auto-load on startup. Immediatly after the computer boots, the emulator will boot into a fully functional virtual Mac OS machine. Depending on your mark’s platform zealotry, this could have a good payoff. Please note that this prank is very complex, and requires a significant amount of setup.
I simply went to File > Quit on the Mac desktop, and the full-screen display terminated and I was taken back to the intial IE browser window. I didn’t even bother with the Trash icon.
I just went to file > Quit as well and was brought right back to my explorer… :shrugs:
As for the efficacy of this thread, I totally sabotaged said assholes computer with a completely reversable prank AHunter3 provided. He thought his machine was completely FUBAR and I got to watch the poor bastard go home to telecommute because he thought his machine was turned into a MAC.
It’s been a while since I screwed around with that site, didn’t remember File|Quit. Oh well.
A good one we did in college: when someone was writing a paper in Word, go through and change the font color to the background color. It looks like everything’s been erased, and it’s quite amusing to watch the person freak out. It’s even better if it’s something they’ve been working on for a long time, can’t replace, etc. It’ll work in Excel, too.
Hmmph!! I never got the MacOS booting. The text scrolled up to the bottom where it says “Loading MacOS (this will take a moment)” then that was it, except for a never-ending report of the number of files removed from C:\ down at the lower left.
I let it run for awhile but gave up somewhere in the vicinity of 490,000 files removed.
Maybe you have to run it from a PC? Or from, I dunno, maybe Internet Explorer or something?
I’ve done this one before, but I made my changes subtle.
For example with becomes when, for becomes to, the becomes them and periods become commas.
The person gets done with the document and wonders what the hell is wrong with him/her as to why he/she consistantly made so many freakin typos.
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Recently, I ran it on my Mac, using IE 5.2. Did everything but go full screen, but I can’t go full screen anyway. You’re probably right, in that it’s designed for a specific browser. Try to find a Windows machine with IE to use it, it’s really neat. Draggable icons and windows, a game or two. The guy who made it did a great job.