5 Funny Computer Pranks to Impress Your Friends

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Looking for some funny computer pranks? You can make your friends sweat buckets or confuse them. Here are some simple tips and tricks to trick your friends. All you need is a couple of minutes alone with your friend’s computer. So, let’s get started. 

1. Where Are My Icons?

This computer prank is an old-school one and works every time.

What is the prank?

Whenever the user tries to interact with the Desktop Icons, they will not respond to the double-click.

How to do that:

1. Close all the applications on the computer.
2. Take a screenshot of desktop using print screen key ( see above backspace key).
3. Open Paint and paste the screenshot and save it.
4. Next, set that screenshot as your background wallpaper. 
5. Finally, right-click on Desktop > View > Uncheck show desktop icon. 

This is it. Watch the expression on your friend’s face when s/he tries to click on the icons (which is an image now). 

2. The Damn Shutdown

Warning: I must warn you first, that this one is wild, use it at your own risk. 

What is the computer trick?

Your friend’s laptop will restart automatically every minute.

How to do that:

You need to do this in 2 steps. First, make a code to shut down the computer, and then we have to execute it each time the computer boots.

Step 2

Copy the following code into Notepad and save it as Prank.bat. The shutdown is a command, ‘r’ signifies restart, 60 is the time in seconds – you can set any number in seconds.

shutdown -r -t 60

Step 2

In the second step, we have to move prank.bat folder to the startup folder. To find the startup folder go to Start > Programs > Startup. Now, cut and paste prank.bat in the startup folder.

3. Virus Detected

When your friend clicks on Google Chrome icon on the desktop, a black screen will pop up warning him of virus detection and hard disk needs to be formatted to restore Windows.

Don’t worry, it’s completely safe to use.

How to do that:

You have to make a batch file with the given commands and then make your friend click the file. Of course, you’ll need to disguise the batch file with a Google Chrome icon.

1. Copy the following code to Notepad and save it as a prank.bat file.

@echo off
echo Access Denied! Your Computer is infected
echo -
echo Do not attempt to quit.
PAUSE
echo System check
echo -
echo CHECKING FOR POWER
PAUSE
echo -
echo Power - FAILED
PAUSE
echo -
echo CHECKING FOR RAM
PAUSE
echo -
echo RAM - FAILED
PAUSE
echo -
echo CHECKING FOR ANTIVIRUS UPDATES
PAUSE
echo -
echo UPDATE FAILURE
echo -
PAUSE
echo Breach of IP adress
echo -
echo Firewall - FAILED
echo -
PAUSE
echo Virus attaining: 192.168.XX.X
echo -
echo Hard drive must be erased and rebooted to resume windows.
echo -
PAUSE
echo -
echo Starting to reboot hardrive.
echo -
echo Restart after 10 minutes approximately.
PAUSE
:START
start troubleshooting.bat
GOTO START

2. Search for the Google Chrome icon in Google and save the image that looks like the Chrome icon to your desktop.

3. To change the format from .jpg to .ico, we can use an online .ico image converter like icoconverter. 

Download the Google Chrome icon

4. Save the .ico file to the desktop. Change the icon image of prank.bat to this Google icon that we have downloaded, to do this, right-click the Folder > Properties > Customize.

But you won’t see the Customize tab in the properties. So you will have to create a shortcut and then change its icon to Google Chrome.

4. Your Computer is Hacked

Copy the following code to a Notepad document on your computer:

X=MsgBox("Error while opening.Do you want to fix this problem?",4+64,"My Computer")

X=MsgBox("This problem can not be fixed!",0+48,"My Computer")

X=MsgBox("Virus Detected on Your Computer!Do you want to scan your PC?",3+16,"Virus Alert")

X=MsgBox("Access Denied!Virus is Activated",2+16,"Virus Alert")

X=MsgBox("Virus is copying Your Passwords.........",2+48,"Virus is Activated")

X=MsgBox("Deleting System Files..........",2+16,"Virus is installed on Your System")

X=MsgBox("A harmful Virus is deleting your files.Do you want to stop this?",4+32,"Window Defender")

X=MsgBox("Access Denied! Your Computer is infected",0+16,"Virus Alert")

X=MsgBox("You can not access your computer anymore",2+16,"Your Computer is Hacked")

Save it as chrome.vbs on the desktop, and disguise it with some icon.

5. Some Usual Tricks to Use in Office

This computer trick works best in places where there are many computers placed next to each other.

How to do that:

1. Interchange the keyboard/mouse cable of two computers.

2. For old computers with PS/2 cable connected to computer, you can put the keyboard cable to mouse port and vice versa. After that, every time the computer boots, it will show an error message of the device not found.

3. Stick a tape to the bottom sensor of the mouse and that will prevent the mouse from detecting a surface.

4. Edit the mouse setting. By default, right-click is the primary click used mainly for selection. And, if you make the right click his left click and vice versa, this will drive your friend nuts.

These are some of our favorite ones. Have you tried some other pranks that were not mentioned in this post? If yes, then share in the comments below.