Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help)

**Grandmaster** · August 24th, 2005

Well my dad thought it would be funny to remove my admin privileges(therefore making my account a "limited" account), and create a new admin account that was passworded.

Serves me right for leaving my PC logged on with my account overnight.

Well, I've managed to get him to give it all back to me, but this time I'm ready with a certain bootable CD if he pulls the same **** again, as for some reason I needed admin priviliges to burn ISOs

You guys got idea for any cool pranks I can use on his laptop to get him back?

**ming** · August 24th, 2005

rofl..

there was one posted recently about using a screen shot of the desktop and hiding the taskbar on windows making it feel like the system's frozen.

**rushm001** · August 24th, 2005

There was this program, slipery mouse or something, which made the mouse cursor behave like it is slipping on ice. Very annoying!

**SPeedY_B** · August 24th, 2005

If you can get VNC to run as a service (ie: no tray icon) then you can intermittently intervene with his actions to confuse him. Don't do it consistently though, just every now and then to confuse him.

**rushm001** · August 24th, 2005

Originally Posted by SPeedY_B

If you can get VNC to run as a service (ie: no tray icon) then you can intermittently intervene with his actions to confuse him. Don't do it consistently though, just every now and then to confuse him.

Lol that's good fun when support connect up to a pc at work using Netsupport, just nudge the mouse when they're about to click on an ok button!

**Steevo** · August 25th, 2005

Hosts file?
Change their homepages and favorites?
If you can write a batch file you can get it to restart or what not every ** seconds....

**SPeedY_B** · August 25th, 2005

Another thought. Set-up terminal access, you can then telnet in and open random apps, calc, notepad, mspaint and the like.

Edit: I'd completely forgot about RJL software: http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/

I've used some of their stuff a few years back on college machines. Quite amusing

**mlakrid** · August 25th, 2005

Like someone previously mentioned, wait till hes logged in take a screen capture of his desktop, then move all of his shortcuts to another folder and use the previous screen capture as his desktop He will click away and nothing he does on the desktop will work its genius.... unless hes good with PCs that is...

**X-Istence** · August 25th, 2005

My dad would not dare touch my PC's for fear of having all of his fried :P. Besides the point, there are some fun things you can do.

Edit boot.ini and add new lines that say dirty things. Make them all boot the same windows.

Autoshutdown, randomly.

Just a note about the CD:

If you do use it to change your password, say goodbye to any of your encrypted files that are stored in folders on your HD. As this password is used to encrypt the data, but considering you will be taking over an account that is Administrator and probably won't contain any needed data, you should be fine.

**gonaads** · August 25th, 2005

Originally Posted by Grandmaster

Well my dad thought it would be funny to remove my admin privileges(therefore making my account a "limited" account), and create a new admin account that was passworded.

Serves me right for leaving my PC logged on with my account overnight.

Well, I've managed to get him to give it all back to me, but this time I'm ready with a certain bootable CD if he pulls the same **** again, as for some reason I needed admin priviliges to burn ISOs

You guys got idea for any cool pranks I can use on his laptop to get him back?

Make an image of his HDD on your comp (soz you can put everything back

) and then wipe it clean and then load linux on it. Or even worse, load Win ME.

**Heeter** · August 25th, 2005

Sell his laptop on ebay

Heeter

**~bk** · August 25th, 2005

I knew a great site for computer pranks. Too bad I lost the link.

*goes off to look for it*

Psyborg · August 25th, 2005

you could install this?

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/BlueScreen.html

always hafta laugh at the reactions of passers-by in the office, lol

gotta resize my sig pic later on, waaay too much white space in my posts

**mlakrid** · August 25th, 2005

LOL, thats kind of funny if you KNOW about it..

otherwise not so funny...

rep+

**VenomXt** · August 25th, 2005

well i had a roomate in college that did this to me. mind you i was so pissed off you have no idea. They took away my desktop like said above replaced it with a porn screenshot and unpluggd my mouse.. then they left and right as me and my girlfreind came back in the room... well you can see how things went. to say the least.. i was very.. very pissed hehe.

**Grandmaster** · August 25th, 2005

Haha some very nice suggestions

Some of them are a bit too extreme. Also my dad is quite competent with computers, so I doubt something as simple as the Slippery Mouse would work. And doing the drive image and installing Linux...man I'd be in so much **** for that

I'll see what I can do and report back...if I can set some of these up.

@X-istence: Yeah I know about the encryption stuff

Psyborg · August 25th, 2005

got me thinking, the mouse thing, ok, it IS "kinda" extreme this one, but...

what if you hollowed out his mouse, just left the shell basically, and put an ACTUAL mouse inside? no, i don't mean a dead one...

just think of the possibilities! lmao

**Sazar** · August 25th, 2005

Reduce his mem and see him suffer

**kcnychief** · August 25th, 2005

take away priveleges the user SYSTEM has to write to the registry

It's a real annoying problem, and not one that causes obvious symptoms

muhahaha

**Steevo** · August 25th, 2005

Originally Posted by kcnychief

take away priveleges the user SYSTEM has to write to the registry

It's a real annoying problem, and not one that causes obvious symptoms

muhahaha

That is evil.

I hated having my account not able to change some registry values, even though I am in the Admin group.

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Grandmaster Electronica Addict Joined: February 2002 Location: Santa Clara, CA Posts: 10,574 Reputation: 2960 Power: 260	Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) Well my dad thought it would be funny to remove my admin privileges(therefore making my account a "limited" account), and create a new admin account that was passworded. Serves me right for leaving my PC logged on with my account overnight. Well, I've managed to get him to give it all back to me, but this time I'm ready with a certain bootable CD if he pulls the same **** again, as for some reason I needed admin priviliges to burn ISOs You guys got idea for any cool pranks I can use on his laptop to get him back?

August 24th, 2005	Top \| #2
ming OSNN Advanced Joined: June 2003 Location: UK Posts: 4,252 Reputation: 1160 Power: 162	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) rofl.. there was one posted recently about using a screen shot of the desktop and hiding the taskbar on windows making it feel like the system's frozen. Curent system: Intel Quad Core 9450 \| 4GB RAM \| WD Raptor 36GB \| nVidia 8800GT 512mb

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rushm001 In the beginning...... Joined: September 2002 Location: Norfolk, UK Posts: 3,480 Reputation: 1370 Power: 165	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) There was this program, slipery mouse or something, which made the mouse cursor behave like it is slipping on ice. Very annoying!

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SPeedY_B I may actually be insane. Joined: March 2002 Location: Midlands, England Posts: 15,800 Reputation: 2877 Power: 310	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) If you can get VNC to run as a service (ie: no tray icon) then you can intermittently intervene with his actions to confuse him. Don't do it consistently though, just every now and then to confuse him. 1. SPeedYB.co.uk 2. CamPortal.co.uk 3. MacIRC.co.uk

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rushm001 In the beginning...... Joined: September 2002 Location: Norfolk, UK Posts: 3,480 Reputation: 1370 Power: 165	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) Originally Posted by SPeedY_B If you can get VNC to run as a service (ie: no tray icon) then you can intermittently intervene with his actions to confuse him. Don't do it consistently though, just every now and then to confuse him. Lol that's good fun when support connect up to a pc at work using Netsupport, just nudge the mouse when they're about to click on an ok button!

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Steevo Spammer representing. Joined: September 2004 Posts: 2,566 Blog Entries: 2 Reputation: 1630 Power: 136	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) Hosts file? Change their homepages and favorites? If you can write a batch file you can get it to restart or what not every ** seconds.... Meow. Equal oppertunity hater.

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SPeedY_B I may actually be insane. Joined: March 2002 Location: Midlands, England Posts: 15,800 Reputation: 2877 Power: 310	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) Another thought. Set-up terminal access, you can then telnet in and open random apps, calc, notepad, mspaint and the like. Edit: I'd completely forgot about RJL software: http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/ I've used some of their stuff a few years back on college machines. Quite amusing 1. SPeedYB.co.uk 2. CamPortal.co.uk 3. MacIRC.co.uk

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mlakrid OSNN BASSMASTER Joined: February 2005 Location: Land O Lakes, YES, JUST LIKE the CHEESE! Posts: 2,338 Reputation: 1410 Power: 126	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) Like someone previously mentioned, wait till hes logged in take a screen capture of his desktop, then move all of his shortcuts to another folder and use the previous screen capture as his desktop He will click away and nothing he does on the desktop will work its genius.... unless hes good with PCs that is... Quote: "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." R.I.P. the best comedian of our time; GEORGE CARLIN.

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X-Istence * Joined: December 2001 Location: USA Posts: 6,496 Reputation: 2808 Power: 220	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) My dad would not dare touch my PC's for fear of having all of his fried :P. Besides the point, there are some fun things you can do. Edit boot.ini and add new lines that say dirty things. Make them all boot the same windows. Autoshutdown, randomly. Just a note about the CD: If you do use it to change your password, say goodbye to any of your encrypted files that are stored in folders on your HD. As this password is used to encrypt the data, but considering you will be taking over an account that is Administrator and probably won't contain any needed data, you should be fine. An engineers technical notebook

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gonaads Beware the G-Man Joined: March 2002 Location: XP-erience, NTFS, OSNN, Bay Area, California Posts: 18,474 Reputation: 4070 Power: 348	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) Originally Posted by Grandmaster Well my dad thought it would be funny to remove my admin privileges(therefore making my account a "limited" account), and create a new admin account that was passworded. Serves me right for leaving my PC logged on with my account overnight. Well, I've managed to get him to give it all back to me, but this time I'm ready with a certain bootable CD if he pulls the same ** again, as for some reason I needed admin priviliges to burn ISOs You guys got idea for any cool pranks I can use on his laptop to get him back? Make an image of his HDD on your comp (soz you can put everything back ) and then wipe it clean and then load linux on it. Or even worse, load Win ME. "I play violent video games, I could snap at any second."**

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~bk I <3 Adriana Joined: November 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 3,768 Reputation: 1230 Power: 154	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) I knew a great site for computer pranks. Too bad I lost the link. goes off to look for it +bk.designs; + notebook + deviantART __________ // art is literacy of the heart <3

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Psyborg google addict Joined: April 2005 Location: Limerick, Ireland Posts: 109 Reputation: 90 Power: 88	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) you could install this? http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/BlueScreen.html always hafta laugh at the reactions of passers-by in the office, lol gotta resize my sig pic later on, waaay too much white space in my posts

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mlakrid OSNN BASSMASTER Joined: February 2005 Location: Land O Lakes, YES, JUST LIKE the CHEESE! Posts: 2,338 Reputation: 1410 Power: 126	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) LOL, thats kind of funny if you KNOW about it.. otherwise not so funny... rep+ Quote: "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." R.I.P. the best comedian of our time; GEORGE CARLIN.

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VenomXt Blame me for the RAZR's Joined: March 2004 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 3,442 Reputation: 1240 Power: 146	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) well i had a roomate in college that did this to me. mind you i was so pissed off you have no idea. They took away my desktop like said above replaced it with a porn screenshot and unpluggd my mouse.. then they left and right as me and my girlfreind came back in the room... well you can see how things went. to say the least.. i was very.. very pissed hehe. www.venomxt.com

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Grandmaster Electronica Addict Joined: February 2002 Location: Santa Clara, CA Posts: 10,574 Reputation: 2960 Power: 260	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) Haha some very nice suggestions Some of them are a bit too extreme. Also my dad is quite competent with computers, so I doubt something as simple as the Slippery Mouse would work. And doing the drive image and installing Linux...man I'd be in so much **** for that I'll see what I can do and report back...if I can set some of these up. @X-istence: Yeah I know about the encryption stuff

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Psyborg google addict Joined: April 2005 Location: Limerick, Ireland Posts: 109 Reputation: 90 Power: 88	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) got me thinking, the mouse thing, ok, it IS "kinda" extreme this one, but... what if you hollowed out his mouse, just left the shell basically, and put an ACTUAL mouse inside? no, i don't mean a dead one... just think of the possibilities! lmao

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kcnychief █▄█ ▀█▄ █ Joined: April 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 16,949 Reputation: 4941 Power: 305	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) take away priveleges the user SYSTEM has to write to the registry It's a real annoying problem, and not one that causes obvious symptoms muhahaha XBOX Live Gamertag: kcnychief

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Steevo Spammer representing. Joined: September 2004 Posts: 2,566 Blog Entries: 2 Reputation: 1630 Power: 136	Re: Dad Playing Games On My PC (Prank Help) Originally Posted by kcnychief take away priveleges the user SYSTEM has to write to the registry It's a real annoying problem, and not one that causes obvious symptoms muhahaha That is evil. I hated having my account not able to change some registry values, even though I am in the Admin group. Meow. Equal oppertunity hater.