Hilarious Computer Pranks

Today I am giving you a ton of hilarious Computer pranks that you can plan on your friends and family. However, be carful with these. While they are funny, you might lose friends. So act responsibly.

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- Fake Update
- Fake Bluescreen
- Real Bluescreen
For PS2
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\i8042prt\Parameters
For USB
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\kbdhid\Parameters
Create New Dword 32bit
(CrashOnCtrlScroll) set to 1
Restart and hold down the right most ctrl button and then hit scroll lock twice
- Fart Sound Effects

#WIndows #Pranks #Tech

[gabe_x]

My favorite prank was when Microsoft released Teams.

[Devo_gx]

Ok, I have to admit I was laughing like a hyena when you were opening programs with the fart sounds and I'm 40. Some things never get old. :)

[srvuk]

Love it. I once pranked my users with distributing a sound that would play random fart sounds at intervals from 15-30 minutes.

However it nearly failed in a catastrophic manner when I accidentally pushed it out to 2000 machine's across the organisation, rather than a dozen on my local office floor.

As the helpdesk lit up with calls I quickly removed it and never told a soul, until today, where I am free from punishment.

[bm]

The teacher turning the CRT monitor over is a good one.

[tiltratt]

"Your IT dept. doesn't think it's funny" YES we do... we're just not supposed to say so 😛

[Baekstrom]

My colleagues plugged a dongle for a wireless keyboard into my bosses work station, and would occasionally hit a key while he was typing or trying to log in. It took him months before he discovered that he was being pranked. Man, was he pissed!

It just occurred to me that you could also make the computer occasionally play a ringing tone or a message notification sound.

[jtmopar]

I think I might use that auto-correct prank, so that every time my boss types my name is adds "deserves a raise". 😁

[chrissimpson]

Making someone's mouse from right to left handed is a good one....

[X-FAKTOR]

😂😂😂😂😂I'll make a few for the boss 😂🤣 Anyway I maintain and repair the computers in the office 🤣 I know we'll have a lot of laughs 🤣😂

[jordanturner]

My favorite prank is when intel sold me a $550 cpu and then forced me to underclock it, and underclock my 4090, to get a stable system. Wow guys you really had me going there.

[TheRealAlphaXD]

4:28 you can go to display settings and choose for the screen orientation to be landscape inverted, though first you need to make sure the desktop screenshot is inverted so it looks normal, and that will just make the person using the computer angry as the mouse is going in the wrong direction and nothing is working.

[arthurschwieger]

At my brother-in-law's vet clinic, I helped him out with IT stuff from time to time. One time I went there, he asked if I could look at the computer (laptop) in one of the exam rooms. He said the screen was upside down. It had been that way for a week or so and they had just lived with it! It was an easy fix and found out it happened when a cat had walked over the keyboard and performed the magic key strokes needed for that.

A prank I pulled back in the later 80's was to change someone's DOS command line prompt from the default of C> to the error message you would get when you didn't have a disk in drive a. It was something like:
Insert disk into drive a
Press Y when ready:

They would press Y and get something like "Command not recognized". If they had known the insert disk thing better, they would know you didn't have to hid enter, just Y. Anyway, I did this to someone and they ended up rebooting their computer and all was good. I had not defined the prompt in the start up. So an easy fix for them.

[jimcabezola]

I used to enjoy computer pranks in the 1980s and 1990s. With stuff like internet snooping, data breaches, malware, CoPilot and Recall, it's hard to find anything funny in computing anymore. Thanks for reminding us that computing can be just a bit more fun! It''s not all doom and gloom; there IS fun to be had! Aloha!

[Zhixalom]

@21:38 - I found myself having to fix a PC once with a more elaborated version of that flip/rotate screen prank done to it.
- It turned out that this prankster had the Task Scheduler setup to occasionally fire up a small tool called "Monitor Profile Switcher (by Martin Krämer)", in a similar way to that RickRolling-prank. But it instead used Martin's tool to switch to a pre-saved monitor profile, where the desktop had been rotated 180°. Which meant that even when you finally managed to rotate it back, it would just go back to being flipped X amount of minutes afterwards... A prank with an almost vindictive feel to it, if you ask me.

- After that first encounter with "Monitor Profile Switcher" I actually ended up using it myself. Because when otherwise used for its intended purposes, it's actually a rather neat and handy little tool. Especially if you have several monitors with several computers hooked up to them, in conjunction with programs like ShareMouse, Synergy, Barrier, or Mouse without Borders... or maybe just when using KVM switches.

[stefanferro]

For the RickRoll prank, instead of specifying the browser (as shown chrome in the video) with "start chrome URL" you could just type "start URL" to start it in the default browser set by the user. This way it will work with every browser.
Also instead of creating a batch and schedule it to run from the Task Scheduler, in the Program/Script selection window you can just type "cmd.exe /c start URL". This will start the cmd executable and run directly the "start URL" command in it. This is exactly what the batch does, but it just runs directly the command without the need to create a batch and hide it somewhere so that the victim doesn't see it.
Have fun!
Nice video btw. 👍🏻

[mikesapienza]

The rick roll prank is funnier if you download the video and use Windows Media Player to create a playlist based on that video. That prevents an ad from popping up every time the task runs. You then can use task scheduler to make it run the command to open media player and that playlist every so often or whenever you want if you have remote access to the machine. I did this with the screaming goat on a 10-hour loop running the task every hour if it wasn't already running.

[rogermeyer]

I love the farts sound, I started crying laughing while watching your YouTube

[Hagisk]

I did the autocorrect function in word on my friends laptop that his friend often barrowed to practise wtiting some words really fast like "beautiful" and I changed that to "ugly" he got so annoyed and my friend had such a good laugh at it. And another thing that you do not mention is the reghack for swapping between left and right handed for the mouse lol

[Lord-Sméagol]

I did a good one years ago. A print shop had just upgraded their destop publishing PC to Windows 95, and at closing time, a staff member was complaining that to STOP the system, he needed to press the START button. So one day near closing time when the operator went to the toilet, I removed the START button using the ALT+minus bug. Then had a laugh when he tried to shutdown Windows. :)

[AllOSes]

14:24 like XP sounds and make this a nostalgic moment