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How did you mess with school computers? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by free_owl716@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] counselwolf@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't remember this exactly but when I was around 10 years old (circa 2007), me and my friends were playing around this ".bat" file that you create using notepad with a specific line which I forgot but essentially restarts your PC when you run the bat file.

We had some laughs during computer class.

During student council meeting, I had the chance to use the teacher/advisor's PC and of course tried this .bat thing for some laughs. Unfortunately this PC was older or something because when I ran the .bat file it didn't just restart the PC but ran into a significant error (I think some important files got deleted). Good thing no one noticed I tinkered with the PC, because the teacher was flustered.

[–] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah, me and my friends did that too, a decade later. We used something like shutdown -s -t [time] though.

We used to put this file into the shared folder everyone could access, made it hidden, created a shortcut, changed the shortcut's image to a folder and renamed it to something along the lines of "maths test solutions".

We also made some other .bat files which looked like this:

powerpoint
powerpoint
powerpoint
powerpoint
⋮

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Add the -f option so that Windows doesn't ask you to close shit.

[–] PrimaCora@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That's evil

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