Wednesday, November 7th, 2007...12:24 pm
Easy Prank
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If you are looking for a fun easy prank here is a simple way to remove everything off the screen including the task bar. This wont hurt the persons computer or anything but it might scare the crap out of less than savvy computer user.
Simply open the task manager. You can do this by pressing Control Alt Del and selecting task manager. Select the Process tab. Then click the process Explorer.exe. Click end Process. It will tell you some warning but dont worry as long as they didnt need to save anything you are fine. Everything should go bye bye. Desktop, taskbar and icons. They will more than likley think there computer has crashed or something along those lines.
If you want to fix it you can simply restart or go to the task manager again. This time select file — New Process and type in explorer.exe. Tada all back
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7 Comments
November 7th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
…or this can be a nice way of locking your station.
create a batch file with the following:
@echo off
taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
then create a shortcut to it and assign a handy keyboard shortcut like ‘ctrl + alt + k’ and voila!!
Fun stuff…
November 7th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Locking you station? you could press windows L
November 8th, 2007 at 8:51 am
yeah.. but that just isn’t as cool… #1
and #2 - you don’t need to enter your password.
Plus, if your password is compromised its still secure… (through obscurity)
Another extension of this prank would be to put this batch file in the all users startup folder - or even as a reg run entry.
Make em boot to safe mode!! Muhahaha…
November 12th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Did something similar to this to my Mom, where I just shoved the icons in the recycle bin, and hid the recycle bin. It kinda sucked, she emptied the recycle bin, and all my icons went bye bye.
November 21st, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Confuesed for hours?
My friend was confuesed for 3 weeks, i like this prank
November 21st, 2007 at 9:03 pm
The description says that you will be able to hide your task bar, but they didn’t go over that in the video. I tried going into taskbar properties and pressing hide there, but when i did this to my sister she found that and could use the taskbar right away. That isn’t really what I was aiming for.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
I’ve been doing this for years in XP as a quick way to restart.
It’s good for those times when you make a configuration change and need to reboot for that change to take effect.
Just end the explorer.exe process, then restart it as a new task. MUCH faster than a complete restart.
Never thought of it as a prank but now that you mention it, it would really freak out some people.
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