If you want to make your boss a bit crazy, here’s what you can do:

First, get him away from his computer. You can explain you need to run some connectivity test or configure some important service for the sake of the project. Once he’s out of the way, you can proceed:

1. Install the Debugging Tools For Windows package (if you don’t have it already). You can get the latest version from the Windows SDK installation, but any previous version will do. We’ll need the Global Flags utility from that package.

2. Run gflags.exe (Start->Programs->Debugging Tool For Windows->Global Flags). You should see the following:

3. Click on the “Image File” tab. You should see something like this:

4. Now comes the tricky part: enter the name of an exe (including the EXE extension) of some application. Good examples are outlook.exe, winword.exe, but can be anything. Anything your boss uses on a regular basis, that is.

5. Hit the Tab key. Now the display should change to this:

6. Now for the last piece of the puzzle: Check the “Debugger” option and enter some other application you want to run instead. Here’s an example:

7. And you’re done. Click OK. Now every time outlook is started, calc.exe will run instead.

If you lose your job over this (your boss found out somehow) – don’t blame me. I’m just the messenger.