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Exactly the same experience for me, and similar with the game too.

We figured out that while the C: drive wasn’t accessible in Explorer directly, you could create a desktop shortcut directly to subfolders. Installed a copy of Worms World Party on all of our machines using that; somehow, although the machines were imaged weekly, it ended up on the image and got copied across to every school computer which was convenient.

I also went a step further with the joke messages, creating a program which showed a bunch of dialogs with choices in a loop. It couldn’t be closed and some choices did things like open/close the CD tray (as a “diagnostic”). People started just dragging it to the corner of the screen out of sight.

We also had a self sign-up system for sports, where you could pick a main interschool sport, or a “development” sport that was more about learning interesting stuff. The system was pretty insecure, using your date of birth as a “password”, but it also turned out that it had an SQL injection, so I used that to set everyone’s sport to Equestrian. Getting to hear an announcement at the school assembly about how the computer system had a problem was pretty great. I even emailed them about the injection issue but they never fixed it. (A risky move, really.)