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FFPranks You Can Play on Your Friends in Microsoft Windows
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Are you bored and do you want to play pranks on your friends? Get a few minutes with their PC and have some fun while you watch them try to figure out what’s going on. UPDATE: I thought I would bring this up again for April Fools. Do you have any to add to the list?
Lets change the autocorrect.
This guide is written for Office 2007; however, this will work in earlier versions of word - the procedure will just be a little different.
1. Open Microsoft Word, click the Office Icon, and select Word Options
2. Click on AutoCorrect Options
3. Put in a word you would like to replace automatically as the person types
A good one would be their name, but you may choose any word you want. In the example below, the name “charlie” will be replaced with “wierdo”. Have fun!!
Dummy Icons on the Desktop
- Go to the desktop and then press the Print Screen button (this will take a screenshot of screen)
- Open Paint and paste in the screenshot (CTRL+V)
- Save the image (in My Documents works best.)
- Right click on the file and choose Set as Wallpaper.
- Go to the desktop and delete a couple of icons that are not too important (you can always put them back later.)
You’ll notice the icon looks like it’s still there after deleting it; however, when you try to click the icon, it no longer works!
Left Click… No the Other Left Click
This will show you how to play a fun prank in Vista; doing this in other versions of Windows is almost identical. This guide will show you how to switch the left and right mouse buttons.
1. Press the Start button and click Control Panel
2. Under Hardware and Sound, click on Mouse
3. A screen similar to the one below will show. Find the Buttons tab, and find the Left Button and Right Button options and switch the roles of each.
4. Press OK.
5. Close the Control Panel to make the computer look like it did before.
Keyboard not present. Press F1 to continue.
If your friend is using a desktop computer, this trick will probably work.
First, take a look at the back of their computer and look for a green plug and a purple plug.
These are PS/2 plugs and link back to the mouse and keyboard. If you don’t see these, this prank will not work.
- Turn off your friends computer
- Switch the green and purple plug
Next time the person boots their computer, it will show an error message telling him that no keyboard is present. They will likely look at the back, see that it’s plugged in, unplug the cord and plug it back in, and the keyboard still wont work.
Hate the Annoying Paperclip?
This works with Vista and XP (thanks for testing Zapper)
1. Download this file
2. Run it, and Clippy will sit silently for a minute, then randomly appear and say useless things
3. You can change the messages that Clippy gives
4. To close Clippy, simply point your mouse to the top left corner of your screen
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58 Responses to Pranks You Can Play on Your Friends in Microsoft Windows
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Martijn
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Katherine
Nice
Sharon
Great work. Thanks so much!!
Katherine
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ahnShev
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Evo08
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Jussi
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Wendy
Oh these are super fun
Zapper
Clippy is a new one. Worked on Vista too. Going to be fun to use on the people who like to borrow my laptop in class.
Rich
Thanks Zapper, I’ve updated the post to reflect the update.
Bertie
These are all hilarious — I can’t wait to do the autoreplace on my friend
Karen
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K Moore
Hilarious!
James Nelson
These are all quality - best I’ve seen!!
Katherine Johnson
Very nice
Sharon
how did you think of all these?
Anna
I’m not sure how to do a lot of these, but I hope I can follow your instructions
Heather
These are perfect for April fools
Amanda
I did the autoreplace one today….. soooooo funny
Staci
I wish I found this page yesterday because I would have used them all
Kaye
What an original list. Stumbled
Mike
That was an awesome list. The dummy icons was awesome, but you can also use it to disable all desktop icons and hide the toobar. Keep it up!
JLD
I like these, I had this bookmarked before and completely forgot about it. I love all the updates to this site. Keep it up mate.
Nicole
Ha a lot of these are so good
Robin
Nice job - I like this site a lot and will come back to check what’s new
tehnoobshow
Oh hell yes…. this is what I needed today. I f*********g love your page, it makes me laugh every time I come here.
Romero
So I just set up the auto correct one. We’ll see how long it takes for my friend to get bugged!!!
Moreau
These are really funnny thanks so much for all these trciks
Brooks
Oh my these are good
Robles
Meh… seen these all before
Stayton
Good list my friend good list
Nehgal
Seen these all before. Boring
Jessica
this is soo cool i think you would like it
Paccori
Estas son buenas bromas.
Muchas gracias por contárnoslas.
Saludos
Key
Instead of deleting all the icons on your desktop why not just end the process on explorer.exe
It only shows the desktop background
www.singlewrench.com
Nice job
gunter
this is realy fantastic
Blooper
Cool
Sikaru
Hmmm stupid not that funny.
Cool
@Sikaru: We all know you’re stupid and not funny.
Anyway, thanks for these pranks!
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Angie
Clippy is hilarious! Thanks for the pranks.
saleh13/helas13
thank you
Bren Wager
I was trying to pay my phone bill this morning and SOMEONE else was there too!! That was not funny, it scared me that maybe my banking info was comprised and I worried all night.
Hope whoever did this had a good laugh. I’m over it now, just don’t do it again…..
Bren
Froggy
Great stuff as usual–thanks again my friend!!
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