Hilarious Computer Pranks 

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

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

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

My favorite prank was when Microsoft released Teams.

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. :)

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.

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.

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

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. 👍🏻

I ❤ the broken screen video. Nice upgrade from just making broken wallpaper.

I love the farts sound, I started crying laughing while watching your RU-vid

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.

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.

I laughed so hard during the fart segment, my eyes were watering!

I did the screenshot/hidden icon prank to my parents about 25 years ago... they weren't too happy about it. I was mildly amused.

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!

15:40 "They're all.. Farting.. Constantly" Hahahaha XD

I remember doing that Word prank on my sister around 2000 on a shared family PC when I set Word to autocorrect her name to something she really didn't like. But she evidently figured it out and got her own back, for the next time I went on the PC it was autocorrecting "Ian" to "Idiot"...

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. :)

😂😂😂😂😂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 🤣😂

I remember back in the 80's when we had 286 IBM clones running Compaq DOS I found a program called "Letter Fall". You run it, walk away and in about 20 seconds the letters on the screen start to fall down to the bottom of the monitor and hand up. I did that to our service department's computer, went into the shop and before long the secretary was banding on the window motioning me to come into the office. I told them China was setting off atomic bombs and shaking the computer's memory. At first they believed me until I hit escape and terminated the program and all the letters came back to the screen. That's the only prank I believe I ever pulled.

I was laughing so much during this video.

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.

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

I remember making a program in Visual Basic that would randomly eject any CD/DVD Drives and put it in startup.

One I did was back in the late 90's with a (at the time) a new computer. I created a fake "formatting hard drive" virus and placed it on a floppy disk and set it to autorun when inserted. I then wrote on the disk "If you aint me, don't open this". I left it right next to the keyboard. EVERYONE that sat in from of the computer put that disk in. AAAAHHHH BLEEEEP!! was the common theme. The best one was my uncle. He was a computer engineer for the air force. You could just see the color leaving his face when he seen this.. The good ole days! LOL

During my 20 years as an IT Support Manager I saw many pranks and generated quite a few. I think my favourite was the Notepad/Calculator virus. We would inform a Support Trainee that there was a new virus which would randomly open Notepad, if this happened they would have to do a complete virus scan of the PC (which never found anything). As an escalation we stated that there had been an update which opened Calculator on the PC, if this happened they would have to perform a clean install of the operating system and files. During slow times we would remotely trigger Notepad/Calculator on the Trainees PC and watch the frustration build. Weeks of fun but it also got them used to setting up PCs and virus diagnosis.

Changeing the keyboard layout from standard to Dvorak is funny.

Back in 2000 while working at Kraft Foods in tech support, we had this one guy who was very arrogant. So, I wrote a batch file, embedded it in the autoexec.bat file and basically it wrote data to his hard drive with ever bootup. Drove him crazy with warnings of running out of disk space. He never did figure it out, just asked for a replacement computer....LOL

The last one is nasty, LOL

There's also the classic "putting a post it" on the bottom of their mouse.

We had several keyboards in a school computer lab that had a blank programmable key so we printed small labels with the word ANY and stuck them on the keys and programed the keys to produced a loud beep when pressed and sat back and waited for someone to get the "press any key to continue" screen. Wasn't too long before we started hearing repeated loud beeps coming from certain PCs and people complaining their computer wasn't working. For some reason they make us remove the stickers and KB setting.

Final thoughts 🤣🤣🤣In near tears now

We were so much viscious at school, like modifying the 0.0.0.0 route table to 127.0.0.1 (so there is no internet connexion and nobody but you would find how to fix it), or putting a reboot script in the startup, or making the BIOS speaker beeping loudly with a vbscript lanched by a scheduled task... But you know, the shorter the joke, the better.

This is a good reason to password lock your screen when not using the machine around pranksters. 😂

Download the Rickroll song, convert it to WAV and set is as the open program sound.

@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.

I used to do software training for the support team at my company. My co-trainer would often leave the computer unlocked when he left the training room for breaks, and I created and hid a batch file that would instantly replace the desktop icons of our program to open Rick Astley's famous video instead. He'd come back from the break, open the program, and get a musical intermission instead. Then, expert trainer as he was, he used it as a learning lesson to teach the class how to restore icons to default.

For screenshot prank, edit screenshot pic, rotate pic 180, or reverse,or both, then set background. Thanks for the trip back in time!

I’m pretty sure there is an episode of The Office where Jim did the Autocorrect prank on Dwight

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

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.

You are the best!

Oh, yeah. I did the screen capture prank to a coworker and I got worried when driving to work because he didn't call me till I almost got there. He almost reinstalled Windows 10 before he noticed the taskbar was appearing then disappearing. LOL!!!

I got people almost calling tech because they have no LAN connection. Cloud based working. Just a small piece of transparent sticky tape covering the connector of the cable. People pull the cable out look and reconnect it, but many won't even notice the small piece of sticky tape.

The Rickroll one would be way better if you could get Chrome to open up fullscreen mode.

Cool! I actually learned a couple new pranks from you freaking!

I had 3 little programs for the start folder. First had a small pop up warning window and when you moved your mouse to click ok it would move and not let you click on it. Next moved all your desktop icons 1 pixel at a time in random directions over a set time and lastly one that made you think you were about to format your C drive and there was no way to click on Cancel before the time ran out and then you watch every file start to disappear one by one with a "Ha Ha" at the end of it all

I’ve done that changing sounds one. I used to have the game “Worms 2”, that had a big bunch of Wave sounds. Had a lot of fun going through the in game sound bank and changing system sounds.

The CMD prank reminds me of my most shameful act ...

A friend of mine once flipped his CRT up side down and called Tech Support that his mouse was moving in the opposite direction. They were not amused…

"It's probably not a good idea to repeatedly initiate Blue Screens" ... Microsoft does enough of them already!

How about the next prank being the unless,micromanaging boss getting an alert that scares the 💩 out of them😂😂😂

Missed on changing the host file so that every website comes up as Google or whatever

Many years ago I used to do a frozen screen trick on one ladies desk top, she would walk away from her computer without locking it. This was on a Windows NT4 machine...she would then call me for tech support.

screenscrew was a really great prank as well as the one that flipped the screen upside down under 3.1

Some of these are fun, some are nasty. Remember back when Windows was new? I remember that changing pointers and sounds were a big deal. Now I haven't even changed the background in the last four or five years...

ooh the Installing Windows 11 is pure evil. I'm definitely going to do it haha

6:31 I'm thinking how convincing that bluescreen looked, especially in the wake of the Crowdstrike fiasco, when I spotted the stop code "SYS_EXCEPTION_PONIES_NOT_HANDLED"... ...

I miss your videos... keep up the good work

Over the years i've had multiple users accidentally changing the display orientation. By pressing the ctrl + alt + arrow keys.

This reminds me of a prank I pulled on a coworker. We were all pretty new working with CAD at the time and while my coworker was in a meeting i added a copy of the border we use and enlarged it to the point that his entire drawing fit inside the letter O of the company name then I zoomed into the section of the drawing he was working on. When he came back from his meeting he started working on his drawing and a some point he did a zoom all and it looked like his drawing was gone. Of course he panicked thinking he lost more than a day's work.

I think my favorite would be the BSOD screensaver on but I would not use scheduler, I would just put it in the startup folder so they get a BSOD every time they started the PC ...... I'm mean that way!

In my tech class, I installed a little program called "Sheep" on a fellow students' computer as a prank. It was an old 16-bit program which put a little cartoon sheep on your screen which would walk around the screen and along the tops of windows. At the time we were working with Windows 7, so I don't know if it would still work with the current OS.

A prank? Windows™ is always in a mysterious way malfunctioning, people are used to this. A real prank would be, hiding a Raspberry Pi under the table, connect it like the PC was connected, then they move the mouse and everything is working as smooth as Linux computer. Then the prank is that when you disconnect the Raspberry Pi that they still have to work with the same as before.

My buddy plugged wireless usb mouse into my pc at work but he had the mouse at his desk and he kept moving my curser around. I thought someone was remoted in so I opened notepad and said who is this. I couldn't figure out what was happening until I saw him laughing.

I'd be pissed if my PC ended up with 11. I don't plan up going to 11 even after they stop supporting it. Which I'm betting won't be in 2025. There will still be to may people running 10. They just barely got to 30% after over 2 years. I don't think they will get to 40% by the time they are scheduled to stop support.

An oldie you didn't cover was making a fake warning pop-ups shortcut :P

Sysinternals Bluescreen Screen saver is an actual windows screen saver file. If you copy it to the users windows directory, you can then add it as an Windows screensaver. Just set the timeout for less than the Windows Video power off.

Windows 11 the Best tech prank

Back in the days of MS DOS there was the Formatting hard disk prank. Installed on the victims computer and when they use their computer it brings up a message box with Formatting hard disk in... 3... 2... 1... then reboots the computer... 😢 😂😂😂

Best prank: install *that* versione of CrowdStrike

In Windows 95 you could make the start button go away!

Fire phasors feature in Novell Netware was fun to use....

Hey bro, it’s telling me I need a volume label. You did a video years ago saying to hit enter but now it’s asking for it. Where do I find the volume label for the v drive?

the funniest prank was the one pulled by crowdstrike

You made my week :) :)

My brother is blind and uses Jaws to read his screen. Quite a while ago he was given a computer with NO OS (back when it was Windows 8). When we were kids my parents gave me a 45 player and 2 records. Ring of fire by J. Cash and Moon River. He HATED Moon river. So to piss him off I'd let the Ring of Fire play first and when Moon River started I'd leave. It would play over and over. Years later he asked me to set up his new machine so I loaded 8 and Jaws and all the apps he needed. I changed the shutdown sound to Moon river. After testing that everything worked I said I was leaving. He said "Lets shut it down", and he proceeded to shut down the computer. Moon River starts playing. He gets a disgusted look on his face and says "That fucking Bill Gates".

Hi rich do you know whats going on with microsoft i was reinstaling windows 10 after that i did a few updates and the it went to repair mode..😮

When installing distros on steam deck the screen is flipped since the panel is actually portrait.

I did those pranks on my friends before

These Bring back awesome memories when I used to work in an office!! This was before the days of RU-vid so all the pranks my friend and I came up with was all us! I made a wav file to change the Windows start up sound but purposely left dead air so it wouldn’t be as obvious…..then (at max volume) this would play: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h55PXmpSHxg.htmlsi=1YuJfQAcQibegSCf Back then, it was from a website called You The Man Now Dawg :D Another thing I would do (not really a prank but more to stop people from using my computer) I would pop off all the keys and arrange them in alphabetical order! I didn’t change the actual QWERTY layout so you were good as long as you knew how to type without looking at the keys!

You didn't link the get out of s mode video in the description.

Also you can disable shut down through GPedit🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I thought the RR video had been taken down?

I switched out a co works OS from windows 3.1 to OS 2, he was not happy.

27:01 what if you rename this script to google chrome, change icon to google chrome and leave it as "desktop shortcut" ?

Hysterical :)

nice video

Can’t we just type wininit to cmd

When I was at a previous job, a scotch tapped the laser emitter on the underside of a friend's mouse. Was funny right up till he started calling the helpdesk. Had to fess up real quick before he got any help. He laughed Also the sound one is VERY old school. Remember back in the Windiws NT days, someone did that and replaced the sound with "Someones watching p*rn here!". That was back when I worked at a shop that supported Cisco routers. I also remember why we did that, it was punishment when we saw someone had not locked their PC and left.

Can you make more of these

Im gonna change someones sounds to bass boosted 808s.

I thought Activation keys were no longer? Deleted after if u like

flipped screen... never turned your mouse backwards (buttons under your palm) to simply match directions to the upside down screen?!

Thanx for this hilarious video!!!!!!!!!!!!!)))))))))))))))))))))))))

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While seemingly funny, it's not. Computers have become so much more complex since the days of DOS and finding the settings to fix what some smartass mucked about with to get it back to the way it should be will be complex, time consuming and frustrating. If you did any of this to my computer, your computer would likely got out the window of a tall building. It's just not funny. I love a good joke but not at someone else's expense.

Dude, that fake Windows 11 Update had me go "ooooooooohhhhhh🤬" Seriously I would flip a wig if I saw that on my PC.

1:22 ha jokes on you I have no friends.