Office IT pranks
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Hi - in winding up a new girl in the office we've diverted attentions to her PC. Tricks played so far include putting shutdown.exe in her startup group, batch files to move files that she's working on to a strange location and strange 'error' messages about using MSN messenger.
Does anybody have any other suggestions?
Does anybody have any other suggestions?
make sure you are on XP Pro and they are on 2k or XP..
then make use of the taskkill command..
Most entertaining when the document they've just opened closes in front of their very eyes..
You can also use tasklist and close windows behind the foreground window without the users knowledge..
Most entertaining..
syntax as follows
Tasklist /s \computername <-- lists tasks on computer
taskkill /s \computername /F /IM xxxxxx.exe <--- closes all tasks with that image name, ie. notepad.exe or Winword.exe or if naughty web surfing, iexplore.exe
Bear in mind that you need to be an administrator of the machine you are targetting, BUT, if the local administrator password is a known value then the /U switch can be used to provide a username, at which point you use computernameadministrator
Is that going a bit far???
Slinky
then make use of the taskkill command..
Most entertaining when the document they've just opened closes in front of their very eyes..
You can also use tasklist and close windows behind the foreground window without the users knowledge..
Most entertaining..
syntax as follows
Tasklist /s \computername <-- lists tasks on computer
taskkill /s \computername /F /IM xxxxxx.exe <--- closes all tasks with that image name, ie. notepad.exe or Winword.exe or if naughty web surfing, iexplore.exe
Bear in mind that you need to be an administrator of the machine you are targetting, BUT, if the local administrator password is a known value then the /U switch can be used to provide a username, at which point you use computernameadministrator
Is that going a bit far???
Slinky
Will take them ages to work out why clicking the icons does nothing 
Take the ball out of the mouse, if it's optical put tape over the optic.
Tape down her phone reciever so when she pick it up to answer a call it still rings.
If the the PC is close enough to another PC swap the monitor cables or mouse cables, make sure someone in the know is at the other one and can move the mouse about.
Tape down her phone reciever so when she pick it up to answer a call it still rings.
If the the PC is close enough to another PC swap the monitor cables or mouse cables, make sure someone in the know is at the other one and can move the mouse about.
How good is her typing? If she's a one finger, stare at the keys type, remember it's not difficult to remove, and subsequently rearrange, said keys!
Another is to email her and copy in the big cheese saying you're not impressed with her poor timekeeping, skiving, poor work etc. Change one letter in the big-cheese's name so he never actually receives it.
Not sure which mail package you use, but in Notes it's simple to set up a button in an email which, when clicked, emails the whole department. Send it to her with instructions to click to install new software or something - make it look official and laugh when she emails the whole department telling them the colour of her pants!
Another is to email her and copy in the big cheese saying you're not impressed with her poor timekeeping, skiving, poor work etc. Change one letter in the big-cheese's name so he never actually receives it.
Not sure which mail package you use, but in Notes it's simple to set up a button in an email which, when clicked, emails the whole department. Send it to her with instructions to click to install new software or something - make it look official and laugh when she emails the whole department telling them the colour of her pants!
Bodo said:
While they are away, and the desktop is not locked, make a screenshot of the current work with all windows open, set as desktop-background.
Better still, take several screenshots with the icons in different places each time. Then animate at 1 second intervals (Powerpoint maybe?).
The icons will keep moving about and even if she clicks on one, nothing will happen.
One of my personal favourites is to change the keyboard layout to DVORAK in the control panel. Press one key, and get a completely different one on-screen! Combine with the old mouse-button switcheroo for added hilarity.
I had one colleague on the point of phoning the helpdesk with that one before I owned up!
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I had one colleague on the point of phoning the helpdesk with that one before I owned up!
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