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[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I remember our stupid prank back in the day was to take a screenshot of your desktop, make it your background and delete all your icons.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't forget to flip the screenshot upside down, then flip the display on the monitor also upside down.

The computer will look normal, but the cursor will be move in the opposite direction.

[–] ITGuyLevi 7 points 3 weeks ago

I was a fan of leaving the orientation normal, but moving the start bar and setting it to auto-hide. A long time ago I put a simple bat file (like "shutdown -l -t 0" or similar) in a coworkers startup folder... I guess that was a step too far though and he thought I broke his computer. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

TIL this was a universal experience lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

delete

You know you can just hide/show them in two clicks right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Hide desktop was the way to go on XP with this prank.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Haha we all did that one. So funny watching angry teachers trying to click on things that were just screenshots. We also did it with things that were like annoying pop ups so you'd be really motivated to click to get rid of it.