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How to Pull Great Computer Pranks

Welcome to tinkernut.com’s video cast. For requests, please submit those at tinkernut.com. Today in honor of April Fool’s Day, I am going to show you how to do some computer pranks, and I am going to show you 4 different ones that you can pull on your friends. First one is going to be mouse prank. Just open up the control panel on Vista or XP, and find the mouse settings. And in the mouse settings you can do things such as switch the buttons from left or right, so that instead of left clicking, they will have to right click. You can change the speed and you can also change the mouse icon. Just go to the pointers tab and select any image. If you do not like what you see here, you can also click browse and choose pretty much any image you want. The next thing is going to be network pranks. To do this in Vista, go in run, type in cmd, right click on it. Just like to run as administrator. In XP, just go to start, run, and type in cmd. And then what you want to do is you want go to and see who else on your network, and you can do this just by going to your network icon and see in the computer is in there, or for most places you can type in 192.168.1. and then another number, and you will be able to pull up different computers, so just depends on your network. As you can see, 3, 4, and 5 are computers on my network. So what you want to do in XP, you want to type in net send. In Vista, you want to type in himsg. and then you can type in either the computer’s name, or that IP that we found and then the computer’s name. And then just type in the message that you want to send, and it will send that computer a message. It will just popup on their screen like this. So that is pretty cool. If you want more information on that, just do a google search for himsg, or net send. You can also type in shut down-I and both XP and Vista, and it will bring up this dialog box. Then you can click add to add a computer and then type in that IP address. And what this is going to do is going to shut down their computer. Whatever IP address you typed in, and you can even add your own message, and then click OK, and it is going to shut their computer down, and this is going to shut down in 30 seconds because that is what the timer was setup. Alright, the next thing you can do is what I call ghost typing. You can create a new text file and just type in the text here, this is in the comment, and this is going to open up notepad. You want to type in wshshell.sendkeys, and then you can send to the notepad whatever you want typed. If you want to give the impression of actually doing some typing, you can do wscript.sleep and then it will pause, and then it will type something else, whatever you want here. And you can just continue that method until it types out the full scene, if that is what you want. And this is what the finished product looks like. And then, what you want to do is you want to save it as a vbs file. So select all files, and then type in a name for this file, I will just put text. And then make sure it ends in .vbs, and this is going to save it as a vbs file. So now when you double click on it, it is going to open up notepad, and it is going to start typing out your message, and it is going to look as if a ghost is doing it. If you want this to automatically start, you can, in Vista or XP, find the start up folder, and then just copy it into the computer’s startup folder, and it will automatically startup whenever the computer starts up. Another thing that you can do is just have one of their popular shortcuts point to it. So what I am going to do is, I am just going to drag this to the c drive and then I am going to change this firefox icon to point to the c drive, and then point to that file. So it is going to be c;/text.vbs, and then click apply and OK, and now whenever you double click on the shortcut, it is going to open up the pad and start the whole process again. Alright, the next thing I am going to show you how to do is how to create this annoying popup that never stops popping up. So just create another text pad file like we did be

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Welcome to tinkernut.com’s video cast. For requests, please submit those at tinkernut.com.

Today in honor of April Fool’s Day, I am going to show you how to do some computer pranks, and I am going to show you 4 different ones that you can pull on your friends. First one is going to be mouse prank. Just open up the control panel on Vista or XP, and find the mouse settings. And in the mouse settings you can do things such as switch the buttons from left or right, so that instead of left clicking, they will have to right click. You can change the speed and you can also change the mouse icon. Just go to the pointers tab and select any image. If you do not like what you see here, you can also click browse and choose pretty much any image you want.

The next thing is going to be network pranks. To do this in Vista, go in run, type in cmd, right click on it. Just like to run as administrator. In XP, just go to start, run, and type in cmd. And then what you want to do is you want go to and see who else on your network, and you can do this just by going to your network icon and see in the computer is in there, or for most places you can type in 192.168.1. and then another number, and you will be able to pull up different computers, so just depends on your network. As you can see, 3, 4, and 5 are computers on my network.

So what you want to do in XP, you want to type in net send. In Vista, you want to type in himsg. and then you can type in either the computer’s name, or that IP that we found and then the computer’s name. And then just type in the message that you want to send, and it will send that computer a message. It will just popup on their screen like this. So that is pretty cool. If you want more information on that, just do a google search for himsg, or net send.

You can also type in shut down-I and both XP and Vista, and it will bring up this dialog box. Then you can click add to add a computer and then type in that IP address. And what this is going to do is going to shut down their computer. Whatever IP address you typed in, and you can even add your own message, and then click OK, and it is going to shut their computer down, and this is going to shut down in 30 seconds because that is what the timer was setup.

Alright, the next thing you can do is what I call ghost typing. You can create a new text file and just type in the text here, this is in the comment, and this is going to open up notepad. You want to type in wshshell.sendkeys, and then you can send to the notepad whatever you want typed. If you want to give the impression of actually doing some typing, you can do wscript.sleep and then it will pause, and then it will type something else, whatever you want here. And you can just continue that method until it types out the full scene, if that is what you want. And this is what the finished product looks like.

And then, what you want to do is you want to save it as a vbs file. So select all files, and then type in a name for this file, I will just put text. And then make sure it ends in .vbs, and this is going to save it as a vbs file. So now when you double click on it, it is going to open up notepad, and it is going to start typing out your message, and it is going to look as if a ghost is doing it. If you want this to automatically start, you can, in Vista or XP, find the start up folder, and then just copy it into the computer’s startup folder, and it will automatically startup whenever the computer starts up.

Another thing that you can do is just have one of their popular shortcuts point to it. So what I am going to do is, I am just going to drag this to the c drive and then I am going to change this firefox icon to point to the c drive, and then point to that file. So it is going to be c;/text.vbs, and then click apply and OK, and now whenever you double click on the shortcut, it is going to open up the pad and start the whole process again.

Alright, the next thing I am going to show you how to do is how to create this annoying popup that never stops popping up. So just create another text pad file like we did be

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