Top 10 Cool Notepad tricks and Hacks

Notepad is a generic text editor included with all versions of Microsoft Windows that allows you to open and read plain text files. If the file contains special formatting or is not a plaintext file, it will not be able to be read in Microsoft Notepad.Almost everyone knows what notepad is, and despite being a simple looking and functioning application what kind of power it actually possesses. One can literally destroy someone’s PC using notepad tricks and hacks, one can also solve big problems using notepad.
I have said enough about notepads and not let’s get started with notepad tricks.

Cool 10 Notepad tricks and hacks:

Notepad trick NO.1

Matrix effect

Inspired by the movie Matrix, this falling code trick is extremely popular on social networking websites. Copy and paste the code given below in Notepad and save the file as anything.bat
@echo off 
color 02 :tricks echo %random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random% goto tricks

When you run this anything.bat file you will see the matrix effect

Here I have used green color. If you want to change the color of text then you can use following codes.

0	black
1	blue
2	green
3	cyan
4	red
5	magenta
6	yellow/brown
7	white
8	gray
9	bright blue
A	bright green
B	bright cyan
C	bright red
D	bright magenta
E	bright yellow
F	white

For example: for bright red color the code would look like
@echo off color C :tricks echo %random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random% goto tricks
Notepad Trick No. 2

Text to speech script:

Have you ever wondered how can you make your computer speak whatever you input to it like in the movies? Would it not be fun? If only it was possible! With this trick, you can create a script in Windows which will make your computer speak whatever you input to it.
To create one such talk script, follow the steps given below:
Dim message, sapi message=InputBox(“What shall I say, your Geekness?”,”Mr. Thapa”) Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
sapi.Speak message

save the above code as anything.vbs and now double-click on the file to open it. You will find the something like this 

type in the text are provided and hit ok. Whatever you will type, your computer will narrate the same.

Notepad Trick No:3

Make A Personal Log-Book or A Diary

A special feature which allows us to make a log exists in notepad. Using it we can make logs of stuff as notepad will put the date and time for us whenever we open a specific type of Log file. For doing this, just type ‘.LOG’ in the notepad and save it under any name that you wish. Now whenever you’ll open this particular file, you’ll see that notepad automatically enters the date and time at which it is opened, and then you can make a log record and save the log.

Notepad Trick No: 4

Open notepad continuously:

@ECHO off :top START %SystemRoot%\system32\notepad.exe GOTO top 
Save this file as anyting.bat and open it. It will continuously  open notepad.
NOTE: You will have to shutdown your PC. So don’t try this trick when you are doing some serious stuff. This may lead to loss in some important data
Notepad Trick No:5

Shut Down PC.

This is another cool hack in list of notepad tricks which i like the most. This will able you to shut down  PC by simply double clicking the file. Copy the code given below.

@echo off Shutdown.exe -s -t 10
cls msg *Good bye!

Save the file with Name.bat extension and enjoy it
Here 10 means it will shutdown the PC in 10 seconds and the message  will be displayed “Good bye!”
Notepad Trick No:6

World Trade Center Notepad Trick

Open your Notepad

Type the flight number Q33N

Increase the Font Size

Change the Font to Wingdings

Notepad Trick No:7

Show Fake error message

Open Notepad and Paste the following code in the notepad file:

X=Msgbox(“www.thapanoid.blogspot.com”,0+16,”Mr. Thapa”)

save it as anyting.vbs    

In the following code replace www.thapanoid.blogspot.com by your message like virus found or any other thing. And in place of Mr. Thapa type the title of the message box.

Notepad Trick No:8

Hack your friend’s keyboard and make him type “You are a moron” simultaneously:

Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “You are a fool.” loop
Copy the following codes and save it as anyting.vbs
Note:Once you will save this file the antivirus will detect it as a virus.But don’t worry about that.To stop the process, open Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) and end anything.vbs.


Notepad Trick No:9

FORMAT YOUR C: DRIVE (HARD DISK) USING NOTEPAD TRICK !!

1) Open Notepad
2) Copy Code Below
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000110011101001011100 0010000000101111010100010010111101011000
3) Save XYZ.exe (.exe is compulsory)
4) Now Open XYZ.exe(Double Click on XYZ.exe)
here, Your C Drive will be Formatted !
This is a binary fun. Be careful while using it.
Notepad Trick No:10 

Make Your keyboard led blinking

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) do wscript.sleep 100 wshshell.sendkeys “{CAPSLOCK}” wshshell.sendkeys “{NUMLOCK}” wshshell.sendkeys “{SCROLLLOCK}” loop
copy the above code and paste it as anything.vbs and double click to see the effect.
NOTE:This notepad tricks can be a little dangerous.This will interrupt your normal processing of your windows. To stop this go to task manager and stop the process from here.The script will have a icon like this
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