Pranks using computersThis is one for the fuckwits better known as PC world staff, and how to beat them at their own game.
First of all, and my personal favourite, the screensavers they have on in PC World. These are always passworded, but just require the user resets the PC (The easiest way is to unplug the power from the back, then plug it back in immediately). When windows finally restarts you can right click the desktop and put on the 'marquee' screensaver with some dubious text like 'PC World still think Babbage is a green vegetable.' Oh! and make sure you change the password yourself so they cant get back in either.
Another goodun is if you have a PC from them with about a months warranty left... Turn off the internal and external cache in the BIOS and tyake it back saying that the PC appears to be running very slowly. Watch them vent their spleens as they change a setting in Windows to make it run faster, and have to restart, each time taking upwards of 45 minutes before windows has finished loading.
Disable the Plug and play bios in device manager... this is a really mean one, that will take them hours to find out and makes the PC run like a real sloth.
Put in 2 CDs into one CD drive. Make the lower one be a hard porno CD or such like, and the upper one be something *nice* like the best of Dire Straits and get them to try and get Dire straits playing in the store... make sure you leave the volume controls up full :D
Get the small magnetic coil from a product that stops you nicking it, and put it into your shoe. Everytime you go to leave the alarm will go off, and eventually they will get fed up with it and let you through without checking you. Of course you can then take stuff from there, but it's PC World, and what could you possibly want that they have!
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Mon 27 Oct 2003, 15:18,
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First of all, and my personal favourite, the screensavers they have on in PC World. These are always passworded, but just require the user resets the PC (The easiest way is to unplug the power from the back, then plug it back in immediately). When windows finally restarts you can right click the desktop and put on the 'marquee' screensaver with some dubious text like 'PC World still think Babbage is a green vegetable.' Oh! and make sure you change the password yourself so they cant get back in either.
Another goodun is if you have a PC from them with about a months warranty left... Turn off the internal and external cache in the BIOS and tyake it back saying that the PC appears to be running very slowly. Watch them vent their spleens as they change a setting in Windows to make it run faster, and have to restart, each time taking upwards of 45 minutes before windows has finished loading.
Disable the Plug and play bios in device manager... this is a really mean one, that will take them hours to find out and makes the PC run like a real sloth.
Put in 2 CDs into one CD drive. Make the lower one be a hard porno CD or such like, and the upper one be something *nice* like the best of Dire Straits and get them to try and get Dire straits playing in the store... make sure you leave the volume controls up full :D
Get the small magnetic coil from a product that stops you nicking it, and put it into your shoe. Everytime you go to leave the alarm will go off, and eventually they will get fed up with it and let you through without checking you. Of course you can then take stuff from there, but it's PC World, and what could you possibly want that they have!