Have you seen this before?
Familiar huh? For newer generations of XP users ( those who starts using XP
after SP2 was released ), there are a very rare chance you’ll meet up with a
worm known as BLASTER. For older generation such as me, I’ve seen this prompt
once too many time.
For today, although April Fools day is over, I’ll teach you a certain PC prank
that you can make using the System Shutdown command. It’s really cool and quite
harmless. Expect for whom who does not know how to shut it off, then it’s a
little harmful.
The Steps:
Right click on your desktop, choose new then create a new shortcut.
When the shortcut prompt come out, type ( or copy and paste ) the input stated
below.
%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 60 -c "TYPE YOUR MESSAGE"
Modifying the input stated above is plain simple. The one is RED
is the time duration in seconds while the one in GREEN…
well, that’s where you type your message.
For this example, let’s use:
You've just open IE on my PC! What the heck are you doing!
Use FireFox! Support the flaming wolf!.
…as the system shutdown message.
Click Next and type in Internet Explorer.
Once you’re done, click Finish.
A picture-less new icon will now be available on your desktop.
But don’t click it yet! I have not teach you how to terminate the system shutdown
prompt!
We need to change the icon first. So you right click on the newly created icon
and choose Properties. At the bottom of the properties window, click on Change
Icon. Browse your way to the Program Files folder and into the Internet Explorer
folder.
Double click on the Internet Explorer file and it will bring you to this picture
above. Choose the Internet Explorer icon and click OK.
Close the properties box and you’re done.
Testing it out.
I’ll bet you’re fingers are itching to double click on it right. Well, just
take note of this final tip:
To close the system shutdown prompt, you have to go to START, then RUN, type:
shutdown -a
…and click OK. Simple right. Just remember it by hard.
The last time I teach someone about this, he blame me for loosing his unsaved
work.
When I asked him what did he type in the Run command, he said “Shutup -a”…..
lame! |
