Ok, I know its old, but I wanted to know if this worked on Vista...

First the (quick) story.

We had to fix a clients PC, was riddled with crap, so we called the customer and told her that it would be better to back up all her data, and re-install the software. She asked about Vista, and as it was a new machine, we said Vista would be fine.

So we installed it, or rather my business partner did. After 4 hours installing and getting her old files back on, he decided to take a break and went to the local deli to get us both something to eat.

Whilst he was away, I downloaded and installed SysInternals Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) Screensaver, set it for 30 mins and waited...

He came back and we sat down to eat. 15 mins into our lunch, the Vista PC Blue Screened, He spat out his food and screamed 'Oh No' (with a few choice blue coloured words). Needless to say, he wasn't happy. After 30 mins of him trying hard to find out what the issue was, I looked at him scratching his head, and I came clean.

Luckily, he laughed and let out a big sigh, knowing that there was nothing actually wrong with his Vista installation.

You too can play the same trick.

Download the BSOD Screensaver [From Here] Full instructions on the page.

Let us know here at DaniWeb if you tried this and what the outcome was.

i haven't tried it on vista but did use it with xp. i found the outcome hilarious! what a trip, i will be vnc'ing employee computers and adding this on theirs!

Ohhh you are an evil one Several (ok many) years ago during MS-DOS 6.X days I played a similar prank on my boss. I wrote a tiny C program that did nothing but display "Formatting drive c: Please Wait ...". I ran it on his computer after he left the room, and when he came back I thought he was going to have a nervous breakdown

only know it's cool on xp

lol that's a good one, and you say im Evil. Might be worth writing something new. Might become really big.

My favorite way to mess with folks is do a screen capture of their desktop, save it as an image, then display the image fullscreen (irfanview works well)

They spend minutes clicking on their shortcuts, the start button, taskbar....

Now that is really evil! Here I thought you were such a nice person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt1bgsvsWms

That video gave me an idea:

I made a wave that had 5 minutes of silence and then a loud scream. Set it as the startup sound on a co-worker's computer and watched him

Hahah Thats funny

How about, when you get acces to someone's computer:

-Capture a screenshot of the entire desktop
-Turn the screenshot upside down
-Set the screenshot as the background image
-Hide the original icons, and the task bar

Now the screen is an exact copy of what it used to be, but upside down

And, to add some fun: if the computer has the function to turn the desktop upside down (for usage with a projector i guess) then do so.. The screen will look the same as before you touched the computer, but the mouse will be funny, icons and lins unclickable, ...


~Majoxu