Sep 30 2008
Computer Prank
Ok so I though up this little computer prank that you can play on windows users. Sorry Mac people. I made a video on how to do this a while back but people found it to be confusing. I think it will be a little easier to explain here.
- Open Notepad: Start>All Programs>Accessories>Notepad
- Paste or type the following into notepad:
@echo off
:Flag
echo Haha you got hacked > c:\users\albert\desktop\1.txt
rename c:\users\albert\desktop\1.txt %random%.txt
goto :Flag - What’s going to happen is the command prompt will open up and will generate a text file named “1″ containing the text “Haha you got hacked” on the desktop. Then it will rename the file with a random number. It will do this incredibly fast, so fast even that it will almost immediately start to encounter errors because it runs across duplicate numbers
- You can replace “Haha you got hacked” with whatever message you want it to say inside the text files however they will all say the same thing.
The line “c:\users\albert\desktop\1.txt” will need to be edited by you. The easiest way to do this is to right click on a file on the desktop and then select “Properties”. From there look for “Location” Hilight and copy+paste that in place of “C:\users\albert\desktop” but leave the “\1.txt” there. So it may look like this:
echo Haha you got hacked > c:\users\Loginname\desktop\1.txt
OR for most XP users it may look like this:
echo Haha you got hacked > c:\documents and settings\loginname\desktop\1.txt- Make sure you have the same location on lines both 3 and 4
- ONCE YOUR DONE EDITING IT CLICK ON FILE>SAVE AS>NAMEOFFILE.BAT
You must save the file you created in notepad with the extension .bat or this will not work.
- For an added bit of fun create this on your friends computer and then leave it going while hes goine or paste a copy of it into the startup folder in the start menu.
- The resulting file should looks something relatively similar to this:
If you have any questions please ask!
