List of Computer Prank Software and Tutorials

Clippy is a simulated office assistant that, when ran, will hide in the background for 1 minute then popup in the lower right hand corner of the screen and say something useless. There is no right-click Hide option on our Clippy prank, you will think there is no way to get rid of it (but there is). Every minute, Clippy pops up spouting useless nonsense about your computer. Clippy looks exactly like the annoying Clippy assistant you are used to, complete with sound and a variable size hint box based on the size of the hint.

Flasher is a hidden prank program that allows you to flash any image to the computer screen, almost like a subliminal message! Flasher supports JPG, BMP, EMF, WMF and ICO formats. All you have to do is specify the image you want to flash and the amount of time between flashes.

Follow Me ingeniously instructs your Windows Start Button to follow your mouse cursor, where ever it goes! When you execute this software, it will automatically hide in Windows and wait for your mouse cursor to move. Once your cursor moves, it automatically moves your Start Button to the same position, horizontally, on the Windows Task Bar. The best part about it is the Start Button still works!

Add/Remove is a prank program that makes it appear that all of your software on your computer is being removed using the Windows Add/Remove Program feature.

The Vista Upgrade Prank starts by emulating the Windows Update service screen. Clicking the install or cancel button closes the update service window and appears to initiate the Vista Upgrade Advisor.

With this fun joke program you can make your Windows Start button avoid your mouse clicks. Just launch this program and watch as your Start button jumps away from your mouse cursor as you try and click on it.

Time Traveler is a devious little prank that changes the Windows system clock to a random time. To make matters worse, Time Traveler runs invisible in the background performing this task every 30 seconds.

This program will display the standard Windows 95/98 "Illegal Operation" dialog box. It appears as though the user's application has crashed. Perfect for replacing a commonly used shortcut, the user will believe there is something wrong with the application, or even with the machine.

The Finger will have you laughing for hours! Launch The Finger on an unsuspecting user and watch their reaction when the cursor changes to the middle finger and then back to normal again.

By default, every 45 seconds it will click on the start button causing the start menu to open. Users will be surprised when their start menu pops up, they will have no idea what is going on.

Shakedown will take your current desktop and shake it violently. This will not only annoy you to death, but also give your eyes a good strain. Run this on a friend's computer when they are gone and wait for them to arrive with that puzzled look.

Screen Screw does just that, it screws with your screen. When you launch Screen Screw it will appear as though your screen has some type of problem painting its colors. The entire screen will have an odd color tint that keeps changing to different colors. The computer is still usable, however the screen looks ruined!

Copy Cursor replicates the current Windows mouse cursor over-and-over again on the screen. This is VERY annoying which makes it a great prank!By default the program starts with no user interface and begins to copy the current mouse cursor and paste it where your mouse just was on the desktop. After several minutes you could have hundreds of mouse pointers on your desktop.

Rotate is a desktop manipulator that will randomly flip the desktop into all sorts of weird positions. It can flip it over, reverse it or flip and reverse it. For an added benefit we change the users cursor to a "?" to aid in the confusion.

This program will toggle the Num Lock, Caps Lock, or Scroll Lock keys at user defined intervals. It is possible to setup which keys to toggle and how often to toggle each key. This program also has command line support, so you can setup a shortcut to toggle each key.

ReplaceKeys is a fun little prank that allows you to replace many keyboard keystrokes with different keyboard keystrokes. Let us explain....First you set the key you want to replace, in our case we will use the letter A. Next you set the key you want to replace A with, in our case we will use Z.

Dirty Mouse is a desktop prank that simulates the mouse ball is dirty. How many times have you tried to move your mouse and it does not move? Most people remove the mouse ball to ensure that it is clean and there is nothing preventing the mouse from working properly.

Random Burper is just that, a hidden software program that will play gross burp sounds randomly every minute until closed. There are many different burp sounds that our software has to choose from, listen long enough and you might even hear a small fart.

This is a hidden program launcher. It will launch a specified program or .wav file at user defined intervals. The user can select the program or .WAV file to be launched and the frequency of launching. For programs you can specify the style of launching; normal, maximized and minimized.

DownHoax randomly chooses a site from its internal database of "undesirables" and proceeds to simulate downloading an equally distasteful file. DownHoax supports both Internet Explorer as well as Netscape Navigator, and it will display the correct download screen depending on which browser is set as the default.

When you launch Print Me the standard Windows Print dialog appears, no matter which button is pressed a fake print dialog screen displays to the user. On this print progress dialog any of 10 random files appear to be sent to the default printer. During this prank process the standard Windows Printers tray icon is added to the task bar. If the user clicks on the tray icon to view or delete the documents being printed, another bogus printers dialog appears. This printer window emulates the exact functionality of the Windows print dialog.

Want to scare your friends and family? Download Fake Shutdown! This prank program simulates what would occur when a user chooses to shut down Windows. Each screen was cautiously created to mirror the look of the actual Windows shutdown sequence. Once the user is presented with the shut down Windows screen, they are unable to close it unless they agree to shut down Windows. Once they choose to shut down Windows, the screen will go black long enough for them to crap their pants, then a screen tells them it was just a joke!Fake Shutdown works will ALL windows operating systems.

Mouse Move is a a program that can run hidden to move the users mouse cursor to random positions on the screen. When you run Mouse Move you will be sent to a configuration screen where you can setup how you want your mouse to move. You can set a variety of options for Mouse Move within one easy to use interface. You can specify the interval of time between each move, the amount of space to move the cursor and in which direction.

PowerSave Prank is a harmless little prank that puts your screen into power save mode, over and over again! You can prank your favorite co-worker or friend at school with our PowerSave Prank. Simply run it on their computer, using the default of 60 seconds to switch into power save mode or supply a command line option to specify the number of seconds to trigger the power save mode.

Flip It is a fake Windows message that appears to have flipped upside-down. Clicking on the YES button will slowly make each piece of text rotate 180 degrees until you can read it again.Place this program on someone's desktop and wait for the loud "HUH?".

Who ever said your mouse did not have a mind of its own? Well now it can with Mouse Droppings. Watch as your mouse drops little black turds all over your screen, randomly. This is a great joke to play on an unsuspecting co-worker, you can even email this prank to a friend!

If you need to play a good prank on someone, Email Fun should do the trick. When executed, Email Fun displays a fake email screen complete with the To:, From:, Subject: and message contents. Then it immediately pretends to automatically type an email to everyone that is in your address book. Once the message is completed it simulates sending the email, with itself as an attachment.

Fake Delete simulates the deletion of all files/folders in the Windows directory or whichever directory is passed via the command line. Fake Delete uses the standard Windows delete dialog so it appears very realistic, and it cannot be disabled or stopped. The custom delete file display list is generated by scanning the computer’s directory, and actually displays the files being deleted.

Floppy Madness is a small prank program that will try and access the floppy drive at user specified intervals. If this does not seem fun, just download it and see. By default it will launch hidden and access the A: drive every minute. But users can access the setup information where they can change the interval of access, length of access, and even display a user defined error message!

Everyone has seen those annoying online popup advertisements that show a surveillance camera or a TV monitor with some sexy women on it. Popup Prank is a gag software program that allows you to simulate these online popup advertisements. The real prank comes when you configure the gag to load a photo of your friend or of your office space!To aide in the realistic behavior of the prank, you can have it hide in the background until an Internet Browser opens.

Pirated Software is a prank that emulates the standard software installation or setup. However, the installation walks you through the steps of installing illegal software. Of course this is nothing more than a joke, but you could have a lot of fun with this.

With Message Manager it will allow you to setup a message dialog to be displayed upon a network login. You can specify the text to be displayed, the image, the buttons (up to 9), and when to display the message. You can Load and Save a specific message from the configuration file.

No matter what key the user presses, it starts typing in its own password. Once the password is entered an error message is displayed to the user telling them their password is not long enough.

MouseClicks is a harmless gag program that allows you to disable the left, right or both mouse clicks every x seconds. That means you could run this on your boss and disable the LEFT mouse click every 30 seconds and he would think that his mouse is broken! MouseClicks is free and completely harmless.

Take over all the computers in your office and make them play hysterical laughter and/or other crazy noises. Sure, there are all manner of underground "back orifice" type tools out there that can take over a computer, but until now, there wasn't something simple and disposable that you could use in your office without causing headaches further down the road when you have to uninstall some crazy trojan horse.

This joke application will open or close their CD-ROM drive when they're least expecting it, then launch a program that you specify! Perfect for adding to the shortcut of a commonly-used application, or to the startup of their machine. Works with most standard Windows-compatible CD-ROM drives. Imagine the look on their faces when the CD-ROM drive opens each time they launch Explorer!

This fun and simple little application will pop up random, and extremely obvious "tips" to your unsuspecting computer user.

When your victim starts and uses Windows, the computer will all of a sudden start “speaking” to the victim via message boxes.

Does a friend/enemy of yours have an embarrassing picture of you on their computer that you would like to get rid of? Do you want to see what files are on someone else's PC? Want to read someone's personal diary that is kept on his or her pc? Well, prankFTP might just be for you!

Go into Powerpoint push ALT+F11 then on the colum to the left right click go to insert form. Double click on commandbutton and type this code in the commandbutton
Do
Beep
Loop

then push F5 to run

Make the victims desktop a picture of itself and watch the user try to click on their icons.