Comment by dyingkneepad
4 years ago
I feel so dumb when I read kids doing these things. Back in High School all I knew was how I could run arbitrary executable files by renaming them to calc.exe. We also did the classic "take a screenshot of the desktop, set it as the wallpaper, then remove all icons and the start menu" thing.
Another good one on that level was using the Windows keyboard shortcut ctrl-alt-down to rotate the display upside down - totally harmless, but absolutely maddening if you don’t know how to undo it
Even better if you combined it with an upside down screenshot of the desktop. So it looked like only the mouse was upside down and all buttons didn't work.
Unfortunately, this feature was discontinued by most graphics drivers.
I think it's a good thing that Ctrl+Alt+Arrow is no longer intercepted by graphics drivers, since IMO shortcuts not containing Win should be handled by apps and not the system.
This is still a common prank at work on win10 pc’s
All this. Plus TI-86 king fu. Though this was 1991-1995, IoT didn’t exist and email and web access was mostly through AOL or Prodigy.
I told a friend who knew absolutely nothing about computers to go and type format c: on the school only computer and wait for the result. It turned a bit ugly but we're still friend :)
Change wallpaper to some crap. Take a screenshot of desktop. Change wallpaper back and open screenshot with crap on the background in fullscreen mode.
back in middle school we would just use proxys to play online games on the library that were regularly blocked