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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.
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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March 26th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Thanks for the nice freebies I like the wallpapers very much.. Nice vivid colors
March 26th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Thanks for the list, awesome!
March 26th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
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March 26th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Thank you!
March 26th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
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March 26th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Nice
March 27th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Great work. Thanks so much!!
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March 27th, 2008 at 3:24 am
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March 27th, 2008 at 3:45 am
I love these, thanks :]
March 27th, 2008 at 4:34 am
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Came across this cool one: Link [www.supersteil.nl]
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March 27th, 2008 at 4:40 am
nice colection. thanks
March 27th, 2008 at 5:00 am
These are great , thanks for sharing !
March 27th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Keep up the good work! I’m a fan!
March 29th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Oh these are super fun
March 29th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
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.
March 29th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Thanks Zapper, I’ve updated the post to reflect the update.
March 30th, 2008 at 1:22 am
These are all hilarious — I can’t wait to do the autoreplace on my friend
March 30th, 2008 at 4:33 am
This is why I like stumbleupon - I find fun stuff like this
March 30th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Hilarious!
March 30th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
These are all quality - best I’ve seen!!
March 30th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Very nice
March 30th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
how did you think of all these?
March 30th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I’m not sure how to do a lot of these, but I hope I can follow your instructions
April 1st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
These are perfect for April fools
April 1st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
I did the autoreplace one today….. soooooo funny
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I wish I found this page yesterday because I would have used them all
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
What an original list. Stumbled
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:35 pm
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!
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 pm
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.
April 5th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Ha a lot of these are so good
April 5th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Nice job - I like this site a lot and will come back to check what’s new
April 6th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Oh hell yes…. this is what I needed today. I f*********g love your page, it makes me laugh every time I come here.
April 8th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
So I just set up the auto correct one. We’ll see how long it takes for my friend to get bugged!!!
April 8th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
These are really funnny thanks so much for all these trciks
April 9th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Oh my these are good
April 9th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Meh… seen these all before
April 10th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Good list my friend good list
April 12th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Seen these all before. Boring
April 18th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
this is soo cool i think you would like it
April 27th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Estas son buenas bromas.
Muchas gracias por contárnoslas.
Saludos
May 12th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Instead of deleting all the icons on your desktop why not just end the process on explorer.exe
It only shows the desktop background
August 8th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Nice job