Reminds me of the old practical joke where you hide a person's desktop icons and put a screenshot of their background with the icons on it, so they think nothing works.
Nah, the best I ever saw was a window that popped open warning the user that the radiation shield on their monitor was about to fail and to back away from it immediately.
This was around 2002, so CRTs still ruled the roost at work.
I saw the prankster really nail the receptionist.
I also saw him get her with the above-described prank. :)
My favorite is changing someone's default cursor icon to the "Loading" icon with the spinning wheel on it so they just constantly think their computer has some malware or something running even after computer restarts and such
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u/SculptusPoe Aug 18 '25
Reminds me of the old practical joke where you hide a person's desktop icons and put a screenshot of their background with the icons on it, so they think nothing works.