What is the worst thing you've ever done to someone else's pc?

[DimPrawn]

Nobbled a blokes desk phone once.

Took the keys out and swapped the order (123 was put where 789 is) and reset all the fast dial buttons to phone senior managers in the client company rather than his girlfriend, mum, etc he had programmed.

Watching him get angry with people he had dialled, swearing he dialled correctly the 3rd time was very entertaining.

[DimPrawn]

We also (same bloke) set his desktop wallpaper to a screen shot of his desktop turned upside down and moved all the desktop icons to the far corner out of sight. This was Win 3.11

Interesting call he made to the support monkey.

[Spacecadet]

To a colleague I sat opposite, I unplugged his mouse and plugged mine in whilst he was away from his desk.
When he sat down and went to move his mouse, I randomly moved mine.
Even restarting his PC didn't seem to fix the problem

[Paddy]

Re-pointed the IE favourites on a colleague’s PC to point at porn sites. The favourites were named as genuine work related sites. What I did not foresee was that he let a female colleague use his PC to look at some sites. He wondered why she was giving him dirty looks afterwards.

[RichardCranium]

On an ICL DRS300 you could design and upload your own character set.

On a colleague's terminal, I built a character set with the comma and full stop characters swapped. I then swapped the command full stop keys.

I left his terminal like that for two days, then changed it back.

[conned tractor]

Nobbled a blokes desk phone once.

Took the keys out and swapped the order (123 was put where 789 is) and reset all the fast dial buttons to phone senior managers in the client company rather than his girlfriend, mum, etc he had programmed.

Watching him get angry with people he had dialled, swearing he dialled correctly the 3rd time was very entertaining.

Someone had me on that once, the barstuds.

Someone very annoyed on the other end getting quite irrate as the tossers in the office had obviously kept giving out the same number for people to "test" their phones after they had switched the numbers.

[singhr]

On an ICL DRS300 you could design and upload your own character set.

On a colleague's terminal, I built a character set with the comma and full stop characters swapped. I then swapped the command full stop keys.

I left his terminal like that for two days, then changed it back.

Oldschool mayhem!

[RichardCranium]

A bod on the support team 'sabotaged' my PC by putting some joke software in the AUTOEXEC.BAT (either the washing machine simulator or the Monster program that went "Boo!" when 'M' was pressed).

So I put something in his WIN.INI RUN= entry.

So he went away and learned about CONFIG.SYS and created a modified CONFIG.SYS^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H COMMAND.COM where all the DOS commands were changed.

So I did something to him.

This eventually progressed into him playing with MSDOS.SYS and finally, just after he was put onto the trainee programmer course, him writing a replacement HIMEM.SYS driver with which he could get my PC to do whatever he wanted.

[RichardCranium]

When a permie, we shared an office with some utter tossers from FI Group working on a COBOL system. They would code in the morning, kick off compilations, go to lunch, and spend the afternoon testing and debugging.

Myself & another took to waiting until they had left, killing the compilation, putting a random change in their code (swapping a conditional TRUE for FALSE or changing the value of a constant) and re-start the compilation. When the compilation finished, put the source code back how it was.

We kept that up for about two weeks until we got bored during which time we not just completely stopped their development but also got them in trouble, wrecked their reputation and their morale.

But they were filthy contractors, so that was OK.

(Now I'm a filthy contractor, I still have no sympathy for them - they never worked out what was going on.)

[Jeebo72]

After a long lunch, that i decided not to bother to come back from, one guy wrapped my laptop in masking tape. Screen, keyboard, then the whole thing. Wraping my phone etc into it. Must have been about 100 layers... oh how i laughed next day as it took hours to untangle.

Much better was the screen saver on my laptop that had "I Love men" in big letters that ran when I went away from it...


As always, I had the last laugh ;-)