Post your desktop
Get in my belly!!!
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 362
From: FL
Re: A neat desktop prank for Windows users
Originally posted by ashutoshsm
Seeing pictures of all these desktops reminded me of a prank some friends and I used to pull on Windows users back at college, here's how it goes ...
1. Turn off Auto Arrange for icons on the desktop, and move the icons all over the place, randomly
2. Take a screen shot of their desktop
3. Make this screenshot the new desktop background
4. repeat step 1 onwards, as many times as you have the patience to
For best results, save as bmp or ppm (or some other non-lossy uncompressed image format - unlike jpeg) every time. Otherwise the oldest icons from the earliest screenshots will start getting fuzzy.
Then watch them try to figure out which icons are real (very few!) and which ones are just a part of the background desktop!
ROTFLYAO!
Seeing pictures of all these desktops reminded me of a prank some friends and I used to pull on Windows users back at college, here's how it goes ...
1. Turn off Auto Arrange for icons on the desktop, and move the icons all over the place, randomly
2. Take a screen shot of their desktop
3. Make this screenshot the new desktop background
4. repeat step 1 onwards, as many times as you have the patience to
For best results, save as bmp or ppm (or some other non-lossy uncompressed image format - unlike jpeg) every time. Otherwise the oldest icons from the earliest screenshots will start getting fuzzy.
Then watch them try to figure out which icons are real (very few!) and which ones are just a part of the background desktop!
ROTFLYAO!
This is great!! we used to do the same thing exept after we took the screenshot we would then set the start menu to auto hide and drag it to the top of the screen. They always thought their PC was locked up because they couldnt click on their start button.
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Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 80
From: Northern VA
Re: Re: A neat desktop prank for Windows users
Originally posted by mito7878
This is great!! we used to do the same thing exept after we took the screenshot we would then set the start menu to auto hide and drag it to the top of the screen. They always thought their PC was locked up because they couldnt click on their start button.
This is great!! we used to do the same thing exept after we took the screenshot we would then set the start menu to auto hide and drag it to the top of the screen. They always thought their PC was locked up because they couldnt click on their start button.
Protege Enthusiast
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 80
From: Northern VA
Re: Re: A neat desktop prank for Windows users
Originally posted by TheMAN
That's a waste of time.
You could of just make a screenshot of the desktop (and set it as wallpaper), then change the option to turn off the display of desktop icons, and then resize the taskbar out of the way so that it's hidden.
It works every time!
That's a waste of time.
You could of just make a screenshot of the desktop (and set it as wallpaper), then change the option to turn off the display of desktop icons, and then resize the taskbar out of the way so that it's hidden.
It works every time!
But then they'd know right away that nothing works, as opposed to finding that some icons work, and some don't - which would confuse the hell out of them and maximize enjoyment and laughs for anyone (the perpetrator!) peeking into their screen!
2002 RX-7 Spirit 'R'
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 872
From: Brampton, Ontario, Canada
hehe one prank that i do...and still do...
Our school computers are a little different then yours...we have very limited access...very limited (unless you know how to hack into it...which is also fun to do...cuz then you can see whose on, and see everyones passwords and ****...hacking is fun)
but when the computer starts up...there is a novell netware login screen, haha, so you have to log in to use the pc...
but in the start menu, you can open up the login screen again, so what we do is minimize everything, and hide the task bar...move it to the top, and just leave that login thing there (with them still logged in)
and they come back...get pissed at why we logged them off (most people know about the trick so when i move the start bar to the top...they don't know and actually think that they are logged out)
so they try to log ion...and it won't let them...HAHA...funny watchging them...until they restart the pc... which then they have to wait at least 10 mins for their logged in status to clear from the database.
funny stuff tho
Our school computers are a little different then yours...we have very limited access...very limited (unless you know how to hack into it...which is also fun to do...cuz then you can see whose on, and see everyones passwords and ****...hacking is fun)
but when the computer starts up...there is a novell netware login screen, haha, so you have to log in to use the pc...
but in the start menu, you can open up the login screen again, so what we do is minimize everything, and hide the task bar...move it to the top, and just leave that login thing there (with them still logged in)
and they come back...get pissed at why we logged them off (most people know about the trick so when i move the start bar to the top...they don't know and actually think that they are logged out)
so they try to log ion...and it won't let them...HAHA...funny watchging them...until they restart the pc... which then they have to wait at least 10 mins for their logged in status to clear from the database.
funny stuff tho
SEULBOG
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 356
From: Winnipeg, Canada
Originally posted by BL_Protege
that is a sweet *** wallpaper, where'd u get it?
that is a sweet *** wallpaper, where'd u get it?
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...c/fd1334a4.jpg
formerly chastan
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 2,350
From: California, USA
The picture is from http://www.savegsd.org
Unfortunately I live in an apartment right now so I don't have the option of getting a doggie
And winamp isn't part of the desktop BTW, it's just there
Protege Enthusiast
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 190
From: Ontario, Canada
Re: Re: Re: A neat desktop prank for Windows users
Originally posted by ashutoshsm
Sweet - that's one we didn't try (at least I don't remember doing it). But creating a fake start bar somewhere else on the screen befaure performing one of the screen captures - priceless! How about one along each side? Including at the bottom?
Sweet - that's one we didn't try (at least I don't remember doing it). But creating a fake start bar somewhere else on the screen befaure performing one of the screen captures - priceless! How about one along each side? Including at the bottom?
I Can Be Teh W1N!!!!
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 1,870
From: Calgary
Originally posted by mnkyboy
Is that a digicam shot?
Is that a digicam shot?
goes to the music, now only if i had 3d glasses!! i could just trip out on the image all day