Monday, December 28, 2009

Shutdown prank/hack (Version One)

Click this link to download the file: http://sites.google.com/site/computopiahacks/home/files/InternetExplorer.lnk?attredirects=0&d=1


Okay, there are many ways of doing this, but I will show you one way, and hopefully you will be able to make your own uses. 


First, right click the desktop and select New>Shortcut. In the box that asks for the location, just type


shutdown -s -t 01


and click next. Name it something like "My biggest secret", or "ALL MY SECRETS, DO NOT TOUCH", or something else that makes people click on it. Click create, then right-click the shortcut that is made. Select properties, then click the Change Icon... Button. Navigate through the icons and find the normal folder icon. Click okay until you're at the desktop again. Your icon should look like a folder named MY BIGGEST SECRET or something like that, and when someone double clicks it, the computer turns off. He he. 


Another Idea is to name it Internet Explorer and choose the Internet Explorer Icon! Be creative, use this hack for different things. Maybe find a folder that one of your family members double clicks often, and move it somewhere else, replacing it with a "duplicate", which is the shutdown button. 


On the other hand, you can do something useful with it by calling it shutdown instead, and changing the icon to the shutdown icon which is near the end of all those icons. That way, you can easily shutdown your computer.

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