What pranks did you play on your school using the IT computers?

Used an altered version of a JavaScript web browser hack that turns all of the pictures shown into pictures of French toast.

Rotated monitors 90 degrees in graphics card settings.

I did this a lot in primary school until my teachers sat me down for hacking the system,

and I was almost suspended.

My school district used mecks pretty much everywhere.

A couple of the most common pranks.

There was a key combination that would invert all of the colors on the screen.

If I recall correctly, it was the meta keys and eight.

It was a lot of fun to do this to someone who left their computer unattended and didn't

know that.

Then one of the function keys, I think F11 would move all of the windows to the outer

edge of the screen showing the desktop.

Pushing it again moved them back, but there was an animation associated with both of the movements.

If you held Shift while tapping F11, it would do the same thing but would the animation

slowed down. The thing is, it didn't matter if the animation had completed or not, the machine

would queue up another action for each time you hit F11, but wouldn't cancel the animation in progress.

So, if you were quick enough and someone wasn't paying attention, talking to their neighbor,

looking at a book, etc., you could lean over, spam shift plus F11 a few times, and effectively

force them to watch all of their windows slide in and out at a snail's pace for a minute

or two.

Took the Windows startup sound, edited in eight minutes of dead air, then edited in 15 seconds of bedroom noises.

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