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there used to be a program years back when i was at school called sub 7 which used to let you do that. you just have to put a file on their pc somewhere (email as attachment etc) and that used to let you access their pc from yours.

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there used to be a program years back when i was at school called sub 7 which used to let you do that. you just have to put a file on their pc somewhere (email as attachment etc) and that used to let you access their pc from yours.

 

that is what we in the industry call: "highly illegal" ;)

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that is what we in the industry call: "highly illegal" ;)

:innocent:

But lots of fun, Sub7 was a hoot back in the day :)

 

i know it was great. when i was in year 11 it went around the whole school and then the teachers clocked on so we discovered network gaming and played quake every IT lesson :D

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It was pretty dangerous though, opened people up to all kinds of backdoor activity, keylogging etc - you had to remember to set the Sub7 server password on the PC you'd "taken" to stop other people playing with them.

 

I think you could use it turn on webcams and stuff too, I only really went as far as hiding cursors and ejecting CD trays... honest.

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I work on a bit of Pc controlled machinery sometimes.

 

Occasionally on reboot, its touch screen will invert the cursor operation. If you touch top right, the cursor moves to bottom left.

 

Customers not happy! But if you gambled on several restarts it eventually puts itself right again.

Running on Linux and I dont know enough about the PC or Graphics card as it is all built into one.

 

I also have a CD somewhere with loads of harmless? pranks on it.

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Take a print screen image of the desktop screen then set it as the desktop wallpaper then hide all the original icons.

 

That would work pretty well - especially if you moved the taskbar to the top of the screen, and then configured it to hide unless the mouse cursor is moved up there. He'll then be trying to click the "Start" button in bottom left, and it won't do anything at all.

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Take a print screen image of the desktop screen then set it as the desktop wallpaper then hide all the original icons.

 

that's exactly what I was going to suggest.

 

I've done it before to someone I sat next to. I didn't flip the screen.

 

I laughed for hours after watching this guy trying desperately to double click, select and drag his icons and wondering what the hell was going on :D

 

so easy to do, you could flip the image before setting it as the desktop - hide the original icons somewhere in a folder.

 

Installing sub7, back orifice etc is asking for trouble, especially in the work place, some companies would probably consider that gross misconduct if they found out...

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