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Freeware - Pranks

Crash is a prank program that will continue to open more and more instances of itself, crashing even the fastest of computers. You can rename the program to whatever you like and it will still work. Just make sure that the program has been extracted from the zip file before it is run. To remove, restart your computer.

Slow Clock is a prank program that will slow down your victim's clock by 10%, although the change is too subtle to be immediately noticed, the inaccuracy will quickly become apparent. Every hour, the clock will become six minutes slower. To remove, either kill slowclock.exe or reboot.

Drive opener is a prank program that runs in the background to prevent the victim from having a CD-ROM in any CD drive. As soon as the victim's CD drive sees that a CD is present, the drive will immediately eject. No matter how many times the victim tries to close the drive back up, it will keep ejecting until the disc is removed. It even works on systems with multiple CD/DVD drives! Restarting the computer will disable this program.

Tip Of The Day is a prank program that will make a completely useless tip of the day pop up on the victim's computer every 10 minutes.

When you launch Print Me the standard Windows Print dialog appears, no matter which button is pressed a fake print dialog screen displays to the user. On this print progress dialog any of 10 random files appear to be sent to the default printer. During this prank process the standard Windows Printers tray icon is added to the task bar. If the user clicks on the tray icon to view or delete the documents being printed, another bogus printers dialog appears. This printer window emulates the exact functionality of the Windows print dialog. Features included in this realistic printers window are error messages, document replication and much more.Once the prank has completed a 10 second pause occurs to allow the user to think about their next step, then our splash screen appears to let them know it was just a prank!

Copy Cursor replicates the current Windows mouse cursor over-and-over again on the screen. This is VERY annoying which makes it a great prank! By default the program starts with no user interface and begins to copy the current mouse cursor and paste it where your mouse just was on the desktop. After several minutes you could have hundreds of mouse pointers on your desktop.Copy Cursor is FREE and harmless. Download it and try for yourself.

Everyone has seen those annoying online popup advertisements that show a surveillance camera or a TV monitor with some sexy women on it. Popup Prank is a gag software program that allows you to simulate these online popup advertisements. The real prank comes when you configure the gag to load a photo of your friend or of your office space!To aide in the realistic behavior of the prank, you can have it hide in the background until an Internet Browser opens. You can specify the amount of time to delay before showing the popup window and you can have the popup window show multiple times. Once the popup appears it looks and feels just like a normal popup window, except that the photo in the TV is of your friend! If the person getting pranked clicks on the fake advertisement they are brought to any website you determined when you configured the prank.

Add/Remove is a prank program that makes it appear that all of your software on your computer is being removed using the Windows Add/Remove Program feature. This gag is so real, it will shock the most experienced user. If you are looking for a great gag to play on someone, this prank is a must download. It is so realistic, because it displays all of the software that is installed on the computer it is ran from. When you first run Add/Remove there is no other option but OK, and as soon as you click on that the fun begins. Download Add/remove today!

Mouse Move is a hidden computer prank that moves the user's mouse cursor to random positions on the screen. Imagine trying to send an email to someone and your mouse cursor kept on moving to the left and up. That would freak you out! With the command line option of 'setup' you can configure a variety of options for Mouse Move within one easy to use interface. You can specify the interval of time between each move, the amount of space to move the cursor and in which direction.

Shakedown will take your current desktop and shake it violently. This will not only annoy you to death, but also give your eyes a good strain. Run this on a friend's computer when they are gone and wait for them to arrive with that puzzled look. With a simple click of the mouse or keyboard press, Shakedown will close leaving them to wonder....

Follow Me ingeniously instructs your Windows Start Button to follow your mouse cursor, where ever it goes! When you execute this software, it will automatically hide in Windows and wait for your mouse cursor to move. Once your cursor moves, it automatically moves your Start Button to the same position, horizontally, on the Windows Task Bar. The best part about it is the Start Button still works! This trick is a great one to pull on your friends. Just load this software on their computer and listen for them to say "huh?". Follow Me also supports emailing to your friends and family, be sure to send the instructions on how to close down this software.

Password Prank will have you laughing in your chair. This program displays a fake, but very realistic, password box to the user. No matter what key the user presses, it starts typing in its own password. Once the password is entered an error message is displayed to the user telling them their password is not long enough.This email gag is great for playing tricks on your cyber friends. Just attach it to an email and send it, your friends will love it.

This joke application will open or close the CD-ROM drive, then launch a specified program, puzzling most users. Perfect for adding to the shortcut of a commonly used application or to the startup of the machine. Works with most standard Windows compatible CD-ROM drives. Imagine how puzzling it would be if the CD-ROM drive opened each time Explorer was launched. It will close by itself when it has completed opening or closing the CD-ROM.

This program will display the standard Windows "Illegal Operation" dialog box. It appears as though the user's application has crashed. Perfect for replacing a commonly used shortcut, the user will believe there is something wrong with the application, or even with the machine. To close Bomb: Click on the close button.

Fake Format mirrors the Windows "Format" functionality. Once the program is started, no matter which buttons are chosen, the program simulates formatting the specificed drive. The user is unable to stop, interrupt, or cancel this format. Once the fake formatting is complete, the standard Windows format summary appears. To close Fake Format: Wait until it has completed "pretending" to format your hard drive, then click on the Close button.

This program will toggle the Num Lock, Caps Lock, or Scroll Lock keys at user defined intervals. It is possible to setup which keys to toggle and how often to toggle each key. This program also has command line support, so you can setup a shortcut to toggle each key. How to close Crazy Num Caps Scroll: Move your mouse pointer to the TOP LEFT corner of your screen. This will stop the program from running in memory. If you have successfully moved your mouse in the correct position, the program will close and display an About Box Screen.

This program is a hidden program launcher that will launch a specified program or sound file every X minutes. You setup the program or sound file to be launched, you setup the time (in minutes) how often the program/WAV file should be launched. How to close Program - WAV Launcher: Move your mouse pointer to the TOP LEFT corner of your screen. This will stop the program from running in memory. If you have successfully moved your mouse in the correct position, the program will close and display an About Box Screen. Once you close this screen, the program will exit. Exiting the software will allow Windows to delete the file.

Simulates deleting all files/folders in the Window directory or whatever directory is passed via the command line. Fake Delete uses the standard Windows delete dialog. This program looks very real, and you are unable to detect or stop it. The custom delete file display list is generated by scanning the computer's directory and actually displays the files being deleted. When Fake Delete initially starts, it adds a file to the Recycle Bin to assist in the effect of deleting. If a directory is passed on the command line, then that directory is the directory that is deleted. By default, the Windows directory is deleted. The hard drive actually makes noise each time a file is deleted.

Rotate is a desktop manipulator that will randomly flip the desktop into all sorts of weird positions. It can flip it over, reverse it or flip and reverse it. For an added benefit we change the users cursor to a "?" to aid in the confusion.Each time you run Rotate it is different, so keep playing.

Floppy Madness is a small program that will try and access the floppy drive at user specified intervals. If this does not seem fun, just download it and see. By default it will launch hidden and access the A: drive every minute. But users can access the setup information where they can change the interval of access, length of access, and even display a user defined error message! Floppy Madness will drive people crazy as it grinds the floppy drive every minute. Great fun for office feuds or just driving someone mad! To close simply move your mouse cursor to the TOP LEFT corner of the screen.

Dirty Mouse is a desktop prank that simulates the mouse ball is dirty. How many times have you tried to move your mouse and it does not move? Most people remove the mouse ball to ensure that it is clean and there is nothing preventing the mouse from working properly. Dirty Mouse will drive your friends insane! Download our free Dirty Mouse prank and watch it fake you out. To closem move your mouse cursor to the TOP LEFT corner of the screen. A splash screen will be displayed letting you know the program was closed.

With this fun joke program you can make your Windows Start button avoid your mouse clicks. Just launch this program and watch as your Start button jumps away from your mouse cursor as you try and click on it. This program will bring hours of enjoyment to any office jester. Slip this program on your bosses computer and listen to him scream.To close simply move your mouse cursor to the TOP LEFT corner of the screen. A splash screen will be displayed letting you know the program was closed.

This application types 'MZSoft' any time you try to write something, it also changes the CAPS LOCK every 10 seconds! You can customize the string by running the program with your custom string in the parameters.

All-in-one Prank Program! Features from random error messages, funny messages and start programs at random, to background on top, close programs at random, open/close CD drive, swap shortcuts and tons more! Total of 23 optional pranks!!
Please,please, READ the author's warning (the paragraph of AMBER writing on his webpage) before downloading this program! It does NOT contain a Trojan so please don't bother telling us your AV program thinks it does!

This one randomly swaps the left and right mouse buttons, but it is nice since it displays a button on the toolbar while the buttons are swapped.

Imagine someone's surprise when their windows start shaking like there is an earthquake inside your monitor (aftershocks included).

Causes the desktop icons to move a pixel at a time at random intervals (from 10ms to 32765ms). This prank is nice so there is a SneakyIcons button that pops up on the system tray. Just click the button to return the icons to their prior positions.

Causes the desktop icons to shoot across the desktop at random intervals (from 10ms to 32765ms). This prank is nice so there is a CrazyIcons button that pops up on the system tray. Just click the button to return the icons to their prior positions.

Remember 'Kilroy' from your school days, always poping up on a blackboard somewhere. Well now you can continue the tradition on the computer. He will wait a random number of milliseconds before he starts peaking over the edges of the active window (if there is room). There's no button on the toolbar in this version, use Ctrl+Alt+Delete/end task to get rid of him!

This program is actually TWO separate programs, each resembling an error message. Of course neither of them actually are, but it sure is fun to watch people squirm!

Gag is a neat and easy prank to play on someone. It simulates an Illegal Operation Error. Simply copy this program into their Startup folder, sit back, and get ready to laugh!! You've simply got to try it!