Notepad is a text editor that comes with the Windows operating system is an excellent tool for text editing and creating quick commands, codes and even a mini webpage. It is also known for some cool and awesome tricks, it seems it was embedded with cool tricks to amuse developers and programmers alike.

See some of the cool notepad tricks below:

Bush Hid the Facts or This app can break.

• Open Notepad.
• Type “BUSH HID THE FACTS” or “this app can break” (without quotes).
• Save that file with any name and close it.
• Open It Again to see the magic.

Reason For This Behavior: It is known as the 4335 Rule. It means that if we enter four words separated by spaces, wherein the first word has 4 letters, the next two have three letters each, and the last word has five letters. Then Notepad Automatically hides the text into unknown code.

Disco Lights on your Keyboard

In order to do this open notepad and copy the code in it.

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") do wscript.sleep 100 wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}" wshshell.sendkeys "{NUMLOCK}" wshshell.sendkeys "{SCROLLLOCK}" loop

Save it with an extension .vbs.

In order to stop it just go the Task manager and search for wscript.exe as show in the image.

Matrix Falling Code Effect – Notepad CMD (.BAT) Tricks

 

• Open Notepad.
• Type the code below or copy and paste the code into Notepad

@echo off
 color 02
 :tricks
 echo %random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%
 goto tricks

• save the file as “Matrix.bat” or *.bat.
• Open the file and see the Matrix Falling Code Effect.

Notepad Trick to annoy your friends

• Open Notepad.

• • Paste the following code in the notepad file:

  @ECHO off

  :Begin

  msg * Hey

  msg * Want to have Fun?

  msg * You do?

  msg * We will both have fun, alright?

  msg * More fun?

  GOTO BEGIN

  • Save the file with any file name but with .bat as extension and close it. For eg. cool.bat

Notepad trick to use it as a Diary

• • Open notepad
  • Type .LOG

 

• Save the file as LOG.txt
• Write anything in it and it will be saved with the time when you edit it.

Notepad Trick to type slowly

• Open Notepad.
• Paste the following code in the notepad file:

WScript.Sleep 180000

WScript.Sleep 10000

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject (“WScript.Shell”)

WshShell.Run “notepad”

WScript.Sleep 100

WshShell.AppActivate Notepad“”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “Hel”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “lo ”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “, ho”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “w a”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “re ”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “you”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “? ”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “I a”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “m g”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “ood”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys ” th”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “ank”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “s! “

• Save the file with any name and with .vbs extension and close it.

Now open the file and see how freakishly slow the messages appear!

 

Notepad trick to Test Antivirus

• Open Notepad.
• Copy the code give below in the notepad file:
  X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^) 7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD- ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
• Save it with an .exe extension like testvirus.exe

 

Notepad Trick to Open DVD Drive

• Open Notepad.
• Copy the code given below onto the notepad file:

Set oWMP = CreateObject(“WMPlayer.OCX.7?)

Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection

do

if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then

For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count – 1

colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject

Next

For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count – 1

colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject

Next

End If

wscript.sleep 5000

loop

• Save it as “Anything.VBS”.

Create Fake Windows Errors With Notepad

This is another very cool Notepad trick that allows you to create Fake error messages. You can create Fake error message with any message. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open Notepad
2. Type X=Msgbox(“Message Here”,0+16,”Title Here”)
3. Replace Message Here and Title Here with your Error Message and Error-Window Title respectively.
4. Save the file with error.vbs.
5. Now, click the file and you’ll get your custom-made Windows error message.

 

Notepad Trick to shutdown computer forcefully

• Open Notepad.
• Paste the following code in it:

@echo off

msg * Shutdown computer.

shutdown -c “Sleep Tight” -s

Notepad Trick to Lock Folders

Lets lock a folder using notepad trick which is named as PICS in your D: drive , whose path is D:PICS

Then the code should be something like this:
ren pics pics. {21EC2020-3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309D}

Pics is your folder name. Use the name of the folder in place for pics. Save the text file as lock.bat in the same drive.

To unlock this locked folder:

Open another new notepad text file and type the following:
ren pics. {21EC2020-3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309D} pics

Save the text file as key.bat in the same drive. Here again, pics is the name of the folder. Change it to the folder name you want to lock it.

 

Infinite Notepad Trick

• Open Notepad.
• Paste the following code in your notepad file:

@ECHO off

:top

START %SystemRoot% system32notepad.exe

GOTO top

• Save the file with any name nut with .bat extension and close it.

Notepad Trick – Text to Audio

1. Open Notepad file on your Windows PC.
2. Copy and paste the below mentioned code :
   • Dim msg, sapi
   • msg=InputBox(“Enter your text for conversion www–.techvorm.com”,”TechVorm Text-To-Audio Converter”)
   • Set sapi=CreateObject (“sapi.spvoice”)
   • sapi.Speak msg

3. Save this file with any name with .vbs as extension. For eg. Text-To- Audio.vbs

Notepad Trick Print Tree Root

Open NOTEPAD and enter {print tree root}
After that hit enter and type C:windowssystem
After that hit enter and type {print C:windowssystemwinlog
Hit enter and type 4*43″$@[455] 3hr4~
Then save the file as teekids in C:windowssystem.

 World Trade Center Notepad Trick

Open your Notepad

Type the flight number Q33N

Increase the Font Size to 72

Change the Font to Wingdings

 Notepad Trick to Format Hard disk

Open Notepad and type:

a) Code : 01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000

b) Save As it as anything.EXE

c) Run it. Beware that the en

Step 1: Right click on your desktop and select create new text document or simply Open Notepad.

Step 2: Exactly Copy the code given below and Paste it in notepad document that you have just created.

set wshshell = wscript.CreateObject(“wScript.Shell”)
wshshell.run “Notepad”
wscript.sleep 400
wshshell.sendkeys “S”
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “M”
wscript.sleep 120
wshshell.sendkeys “A”
wscript.sleep 200
wshshell.sendkeys “R”
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “T”
wscript.sleep 140
wshshell.sendkeys “T”
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “R”
wscript.sleep 50
wshshell.sendkeys “I”
wscript.sleep 120
wshshell.sendkeys “C”
wscript.sleep 170
wshshell.sendkeys “K”
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “S”
wscript.sleep 50
wshshell.sendkeys “.”
wscript.sleep 120
wshshell.sendkeys “N”
wscript.sleep 160
wshshell.sendkeys “E”
wscript.sleep 200
wshshell.sendkeys “T”
wscript.sleep 100

Have fun and enjoy the tricks, please note that some tricks could make changes to your computer. Use it with discretion and be prepared to fix or repair damaged or format disc where it applies. This Notepad Trick could be a dangerous exercise.