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How to get back at the office prankster

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By BB15
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Ever come back from lunch to find all of the keys on your keyboard re-arranged, or your cubicle plastered with yellow sticky notes? Here is a great way to get back at the office prankster while managing to stay employed.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • A good lookout to tell you when Mr. Office Funny Guy is back in the building
  • 1.5 minutes
  1. Step 1

    Take a screen shot of their PC desktop with no windows open and the mouse cursor not visible. To take a screenshot, hit the "print screen" button on your keyboard.

  2. Step 2

    Paste the image from the edit menu into MS Paint or other such program and set the image as their wallpaper (right click "set image as").

  3. Step 3

    Unlock the taskbar and drag it to the top of the screen, then set it to "auto hide".

  4. Step 4

    When Mr. Funny Man returns to his/her desk, sit back and enjoy the frustration that ensues from the lack of any icons functioning, and them not being able to find their task bar.

Tips & Warnings
  • Once the self-proclaimed prank master has had enough, let them in on the gag before help desk in called.
  • Don't try this with the weird guy who sits by himself and smells like cats.
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