[f0e4c2f7]

Ha! What a delightful little project. Thanks for sharing. I can think of all kinds of fun stuff you could do with this.

Reminds me of that fake windows update prank. We used to put it on people's screen and maximize it if they forgot to lock their pc.

https://fakeupdate.net/

[charles_f]

Ha! Best part of these fake updates is when they go beyond 100%! Still remember my colleagues face at 105% asking me "ehhh, what do I do now?"

[bryanrasmussen]

in about 2003 I messed with some folks at work with a similar trick, made a full screen fake IE that showed an error message - when they started to click anywhere on the chrome the whole thing started to fall apart - buttons falling off of the chrome etc.

[jerrygoyal]

Once I took screenshot of colleague's win desktop screen, replaced with current current wallpaper, and hid all the desktop icons and taskbar. He legit got confused why mouse left click isn't working expectedly.

[DrSiemer]

Kids today have it easy. To pull this prank on a highschool teacher (who had me sort out some CAD software, in exchange for skipping boring classes) I had to modify autoexec.bat and recreate a virus message in there, based on something I had seen in the black book of computer viruses.

The poor guy nearly had a heart attack when he turned the pc on and got confronted with it.