12 Fun April Fools Day Pranks for Techies

A few simple tricks that will drive your friends crazy on April Fool's Day. It's very suitable for technology people. Let's see with WebTech360 on this April Fool's Day what technology pranks (on phones and computers) you can play to troll your friends.

April Fools' Day Computer and Phone Pranks

• 1. Turn the desktop screen upside down
• 2. Disable mouse
• 3. Broken screen
• 4. A 1/4 joke with the mouse pointer
• 5. Bluetooth headset
• 6. Turn off the device when opening a favorite application
• 7. Change the keys
• 8. Screen freezes
• 9. Scare ghosts with loudspeaker
• 10. Adjust screen brightness
• 11. Automatically replace funny words in Word
• 12. Create computer viruses

1. Turn the desktop screen upside down

This is a pretty simple trick. For Windows, just press CTRL + ALT + down arrow key ( replace with up arrow key to return to normal desktop ). For MAC , open System Preferences and click on Display while holding CTRL + Option key, a Rotation menu appears and you can choose to rotate the screen 180 degrees.

However, this joke can only be applied to people who are not very familiar with computers, but to tech-savvy people, it is just "mosquito bites on stainless steel".

2. Disable mouse

Here’s another simple trick for the lazy ones. Just use a piece of tape and stick it under the mouse’s reading eye. This is an upgraded version of the old “ stealing marbles ” prank when there were no optical or laser mice.

3. Broken screen

You don’t have to smash your friend’s smartphone screen, but with a simple app you can make your phone look like it just fell from a 10m floor. Just find a broken screen wallpaper for your computer, Android or iOS and install it, then see how your friend reacts.

4. A 1/4 joke with the mouse pointer

Go to Control Panel, find Mouse, then you can change the mouse pointer icon from an arrow to an hourglass or a rotating circle. When your friend uses the computer, they will think that their computer is loading something, when in fact it is just a normal mouse pointer.

5. Bluetooth headset

If you have a Bluetooth headset, you can do this simple prank. Borrow their phone and then connect it to your headset. Then, whenever a call comes in, you can answer it using your Bluetooth headset. The scenario after that is up to you, but don't go too far because it can cause many unpredictable consequences.

6. Turn off the computer when opening a favorite application

It would be quite frustrating if every time you turn on your computer, try to access Chrome or play Dota, the computer immediately shuts down. What you need to do is choose a favorite application that is used the most. Right-click and select Properties, in the Target box, copy the following code: %windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00 . The result is that every time you run this application, the computer will immediately shut down.

Remember to disable UAC to avoid being exposed.

• Instructions on how to enable and disable UAC on Windows 10
• Disable UAC in Windows 7

7. Change the keys

You just need to go to Control Panel , select Languages ​​then click Add and choose any language you like. It is recommended that you choose Romanian, because only a few letters are different from the ABC alphabet, so the person being trolled by this game will have a hard time knowing what is going on.

8. Screen freezes

This is an old prank, but it always works on April Fools Day. First, take a screenshot of your desktop and set it as your wallpaper. Next, put all the icons on your desktop in a hidden folder at the bottom. When your friend comes back to use the computer, they will still see the app icons but they won’t be able to click on them because they are just a picture.

You can use this prank on someone else's phone to prank them on April 1st.

9. Scare ghosts with loudspeaker

If your friend has a speakerphone, you can use it to pull off a fun prank. Connect your phone to the speaker, then play some demonic screams to scare your friend.

10. Adjust screen brightness

This prank can be applied to your office colleagues or your roommates. Every time your friend leaves the room, go to Control Panel, then adjust the brightness down a little and the contrast up a little. Do this about 4-5 times and they will not notice that their screen has changed abnormally since when.

11. Automatically replace funny words in Word

Automatic word replacement in Word is a fun April Fool's Day prank that you can pull off to prank your office workers.

Automatic word substitution makes typing text content in two text tools, Microsoft Word or Google Docs, not as expected. Here's how to do it:

Google Docs: Go to Tools -> click on Preferences, replace some of your colleagues' commonly used words with some other interesting words.

Microsoft Word: Go to Tools -> AutoCorrect options and do the same thing as with Google Docs.

12. Create computer viruses

Open Notepad. Copy the code below and paste it into Notepad, then save it as a file with the extension .bad.

Identify the app that person uses most, delete it, and change the icon of the file you just saved to the icon of the deleted app.

When the victim clicks on that icon, a warning dialog box appears, pressing the OK key has no effect, causing an extremely uncomfortable feeling.

@echo off
:start
msg * Warning your computer has detected a virus!
goto start

Here are some tech jokes that you can use to fool, tease your friends, relatives or colleagues to bring joy on April Fool's Day ¼. However, you should also pay attention to the amount of teasing, avoid affecting their work. You should only use these jokes on women and people who do not understand much about technology, avoid "showing off in front of a craftsman".