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Does anyone know any good computer pranks?

I'm in a computer class and i sit next to my friend, and we play around and press keys like ALT+F4 and we open and close stuff and we flip each other's screens and stuff, but i'm trying to find new ways of just pressing a few buttons and doing something funny. Can anyone show me any shortcuts to prank my friend?

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1. Try this link http://www.metacafe.com/tags/how_to/computer_pranks/ I hope it helps!
2. fake computer virus??? to make him panic then you fix it and make him look bad i think there are instructions on how to make one on www.wikihow.com just type in fake virus and something should come up
3. ok, here's one that will require a few minutes with his computer, and him not around. Step 1: with the mouse cursor hidden offscreen, hit the print screen button. this will take a screen shot of the current screen. Step 2: Open a picture editing program (paint works) and go to "edit - paste" save the image of the desktop somewhere you can find it. Step 3: right click on the background, go to properties. change the background to the image that you just created. step 4: Back up all desktop icons. aka, highlight them all, and hit "cut" and paste them in a safe, non-seen folder that you can find later. This leaves the background image looking like the icons are were they used to be. Step 5: watch him mentally go "wtf" when he tries to use his icons.
4. Hold Windows key + E to make 50+ windows open up, ctrl+alt+(up/down/left/right arrow) to change the monitor to face in other directions. Windows then L then L to log them off.
5. Well, I did some research on this. I couldn't really find any, but if your alone on his computer. Here ya are : Just take a screen shot of his desktop, paste it in paint and save it. Then go back to his desktop, right-click, and uncheck Show Desktop Icons under Arrange Icons By. Then, go into system properties and set the active background to the screen shot you just took a few seconds ago. Voila! The icons are back (but not really)! Now go and laugh ( on the inside ) when he can't figure out why he cant get his stuff to work. =D As I did some more research... Hold " Alt " and the " left shift key " and while holding them down hold the "PrtScn" and tell him to click accept.. Now if you really wanna spook them, do it before hand, so that they don't know what happened. =)
6. PC World's online website had a list of computer pranks that they published on April Fools Day several years ago. You may want to take a look at them. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,45270-page,1/article.html
7. Take a screen shot of the marks desktop then apply it as a background and hide all of the desktop icons...watch as they click on icons on the "desktop".
8. You could crank the mouse sensitivity right up, or right down. that is kindv annoying
9. Connect the mouse to his with his mouse still plugged in computer and have mouse wars.