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So who had the best April Fool's joke this year?
I used the classic "Who broke my monitor?!?" joke.
(link courtesy of HardOCP.com)
My daughters fall for it every year! 
Let's hear from you. What pranks did you pull on this very special day?
This reminds me of Sweden's best April fools joke in 1962 : http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoax … _Color_TV/
My own favourite is similar to yours: I take a screenshot of my roommate/colleagues screen (using the printscreen key) and paste that screenshot into a new photoshop or windows paint document (using ctrl + V) then I draw lots of dirt on it (using the computer program not real dirt!) and set it as the screensaver. activate the screensaver and unpulg the mouse and it will look like its crashed!
We used to like this routine... screenshot a desktop and then set it as the desktop background. Then move all the desktop shortcuts to a temp folder, and move the taskbar to the top or right hand side then minimize it and turn on auto-hide. None of the "shortcuts" will work and neither will the "start button". especialy if the keyboard does not have a windows key or if it is disabled. This was always good for a laugh... the best part is even if they power it off and back on the problem persists .
shell=progman.exe is also a nice gag
...and for the older "ball" mice, a piece of tape over the ball would keep the pointer frozen as well.
LOL a post-it would work for a optical unit
I once did a prank sorta like the broken monitor wallpaper...I took a screenshot of the desktop, then I saved it, then I set it as background and hid all the desktop icons (including recycle bin)
When somebody double clicked on what they thought was a icon on the desktop nothing would happen (because it was just a picture of the icon)
Last edited by ricktendo64 (2010-04-09 18:24:25)
that was what i described above (or at least that was what i thought i described)
It Is The Game Of Joke In Which One Person To Supid The Other Person.
Last edited by goneymouse (2010-04-14 17:05:06)
wow, a spammer commenting on an april fools thread......
wow, a spammer commenting on an april fools thread......
Where?
now you smell 'em, now you don't!
On the April Fool's front a friend of mine did something similar to the 'snapshot desktop, hide icons and taskbar' trick above to a colleague at his works. As an added twist he also created folders named 'P0rn' and 'Beastiality' on the desktop before he took the snapshot image.
Apparently it took his workmate/victim a VERY long time to work up the courage to contact IT Support... 
Last edited by Mulgie (2010-05-13 17:58:08)
I wana know the history of April Foooooooooolllll
I wana know the history of April Foooooooooolllll
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
I was just gonna post this link to an interesting April Fools:
So who had any good ones this year?
I had a bottle of "Wild Turkey" on my desk (half filled with cola) and was staggering around the office before lunch. Classic.
There's always the HID USB mouse prank: http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/04/20/garr … nk-device/
Another prank involves a HID keyboard & micro-controller dongle, installed into the end of a busted usb cable. It looks to the average person as a usb cable ripped in half.
Plug it in to someones machine (good luck finding it in a bundle of wire!) & it will wait for the machine to be idle for 3 minutes, & then start a macro to say, move the mouse around, open up programs. When the user interacts, the timer resets.
Oh, hey, I found it. Maddening! 
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/usbkey
http://imakeprojects.com/Projects/haunted-usb-cable/
Last edited by TechDud (2011-04-02 21:49:46)
I took a screenshot of the desktop, then I saved it, then I set it as background and hid all the desktop icons.
Where does April Fools starts???do you know where this come from?
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