Hello,
My boss is off today, so we want to leave him a “Happy Late April Fools” message on his computer for when he comes back in Monday.
We’re open to doing some script that runs at logon and messes with his PC some. Nothing major, mostly just looking for ideas.
Any suggestions?
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Lonny6654
(Lonny6654)
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I wrote a small program that we put on someone’s computer…
We scheduled it to run at login (with random delay) and every 2 hours thereafter (with random delay).
It popped up this message.
(Sorry, don’t have the program any more, so got to type it out…)
Error:
Windows has detected a problem between the chair and keyboard.
Funny thing is…
The user put in a ticket with a screenshot.
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eric7615
(Eric7615)
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@lonnyl That is awesome. Makes me want to do the same thing but I would probably get in big trouble.
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I’d like to recommend displaying either a gif of the error message from Jurassic Park or a gif of the pirate virus from the virus episode of Archer. Or both.
At a previous job we had a set of toolbars for Excel that were deployed as AddIns, with shortcuts, shared macros etc.
One year for April Fools, I put a thing in that would pop up a message saying “Windows has detected that your mouse has moved. Please restart to accept the changes”.
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cjnc
(C_J)
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In high school programming class I wrote a PASCAL program (don’t judge me, it was the only CompSci class they offered) that did a randomly pitched beep at randomly timed intervals as it flashed a new random color to the screen when a substitute was in the class. I ran it on the computer and said “it happens all the time, teacher said not to touch it when it happens and just to sit somewhere else.” Came back the next morning to class and it was still there, with a piece of paper now taped to the monitor saying something about DO NOT UNPLUG… I’m sure with schedule tasks and WAV files you could do something similar to (and much more fun than) that…
The one I used to do since I managed our VOIP phone system was to mess with their hardware’s LCD screen display. For certain people i knew would laugh, I’d change the description of their extension from their name to something like “Nuclear Launch Hotline” or “Complaint Department.” Would have been funnier if more people had actually noticed.
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tim-smith
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You mean something like this?
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.speech
$speak = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer
$speak.SelectVoice('Microsoft Zira Desktop')
$speak.Speak("Introducing the new voice activated Windows feature update. Please train the voice recognition by reciting Mary had a little lamb.")
Start-Sleep -Seconds 3
$speak.Speak("I'm sorry. I'm having trouble hearing you. Please speak more loudly.")
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
$speak.Speak("I'm still not getting it. Please speak into your mouse and annunciate clearly.")
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
$speak.Speak("I'm sorry. I didn't understand that. Let's start again from the beginning.")
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
$speak.Speak("Introducing the new voice activated Windows feature update. Please train the voice recognition by reciting Mary had a little lamb.")
Start-Sleep -Seconds 3
$speak.Speak("I'm sorry. I'm having trouble hearing you. Please speak more loudly.")
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
$speak.Speak("Are you aware that Friday was April Fool's? Happy belated April Fool's day!")
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I once had a Bos’n Chief (Coast Guard) that didn’t know anything about computers and panicked easily when it came to them. This was in '85 I think, when the CG used Convergent Technologies systems. Anyway, we were at sea one day and I decided I would freak him out by running a script that enumerated the files on the HD and displayed a scrolling message onscreen saying "Deleting file " but of course it was only displaying the filenames, and nothing else was happening. I had a great laugh! Once he calmed down and I explained it to him, he did too! What a great sense of humor he had.
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