Practical Jokes on Co-Workers?

leprasmurf asks: "Here I sit with Administrative rights to a public computer at work, and I'm trying to think of how I can have fun with my co-worker's profiles. I'm running low on ideas. I've done the 'copy 50 million folder shortcuts to their desktop' one and if he forgets to lock his terminal one of these times I'm going to do the print screen and hide all his icons one, but what else is there? Surely there are some harmless pranks an administrator can do without resorting to downloading programs for assistance. Any suggestions?"

Comments

Re:Schedules

[Associate]

Damn, forgot a few.
We once disabled a coworker's virtual memory. Later we swapped her mouse and keyboard plugs. Try also changing the monitor and display settings. If you get it right, they will have a headache. You could probably mess with the host file and redirect their browser to some nefarious page like windows update. :) Go into a word processor and add common word misspeelings to their dictonary. The possibilities are endless.
Actually, the person we did this stuff to was one of those employees. We did it more for spite than to be fun.

add delay to people's .profile-files

[hkon]

As a prank to people to who don't care much about locking their terminals or keeping correct permissions on their files, you can add
echo 'sleep 1' >> .profile
to their .profile. That way, each login will take a second more. This requires a bit of patience, though, since most people won't realize that something's wrong for about a month. Personally, I like pranks like this, that penalize stupidity.

Re:Jokes on Coworkers

[PhaseBurn]

We did this at Earthlink. I think the pics speak for themself :-)

http://home.onemain.com/~edsoffice/