My favorite, along this line, was taking a screenshot of the users desktop and 
replacing their wallpaper with this, then hiding the desktop icons.  The gift 
that keeps giving. 

Chad. 



> On Apr 1, 2016, at 11:10 AM, Pommier, Rex <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, mine works on a screen-by-screen basis.  So if you have one upside down, 
> just click somewhere in that screen and flip it right.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Nims,Alva John (Al)
> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 8:35 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Passable April Foll's joke
> 
> I DO NOT recommend doing so on a Multi-Screen system or Multi-Screen Windows 
> 7, because at the moment, one screen is back to being right side up, but the 
> other is still UPSIDE DOWN!
> Yes, I did it to myself, before I attempt to do it to someone else, guess 
> what I WON'T be doing today!  :-)
> 
> Al Nims
> Systems Admin/Programmer 3
> UFIT
> University of Florida
> (352) 273-1298
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Scott Ford
> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 8:41 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Passable April Foll's joke
> 
> Brian,
> 
> 
> Very very funny my friend...
> 
> Throws people for a serious curve ....
> 
> Scott
> 
> On Friday, April 1, 2016, Brian Westerman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> This is one I do every year to as many people as I can.  I think it 
>> works on all windows PCs.
>> 
>> I wait till they are not looking and press the combination of
>> CTRL+ALT+downarrow  It inverts their screen.
>> 
>> Try to walk away as quickly as possible without drawing attention to 
>> yourself.  A lot of people don't realize what happened and they can't 
>> coordinate working upside down to do a web search to see how to set it 
>> back to right-side up.
>> 
>> It helps if you know how to reset it back in case you can't get away 
>> fast enough.
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
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