Internet Explorer Shutdown Prank
by blindpyro in Circuits > Microsoft
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Internet Explorer Shutdown Prank

This is a very simple instructable on how to get someone to unknowingly shut a PC down. Also, this would be my first instructable, please bear with me.

Step one: right click on an open area of the desktop and select New, then Shortcut.

Step two: in the text box type "shutdown.exe", without the quotation marks, then click Next.

Step three: Type "Internet Explorer", again without the quotations, then click Finish.

Step four: Right click on your new shortcut, then click Properties.

Step five: click Change Icon, then click Ok.

Step six: find the icon which looks most like the real Internet Explorer icon. Select it, then press Ok

Step seven: In the box labeled "Target" go to the end of the text in the box and add -s -t 30 -c "message of your choosing"
then click Apply. It will look something like %windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t 30 -c "message"
then click Apply. It will look something like %windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t 30 -c "message"


Last step: double click your new shortcut to test it. Oh, by the way, click start, run, type shutdown.exe -a, click ok...these are the steps for aborting before shutdown.