05 October, 2016

5 Cool Notepad Tricks

5 Cool Notepad Tricks

Perhaps every Windows user knows about notepad. simplest text editor provided by Microsoft in every version of Windows. Commonly used as text editor. It don't have many functions so most of programmer/coder/developer use another software for coding. But there are many cool/ awesome tricks that can be performed from notepad. I/ Many peoples call it 'Notepad Tricks' or something like that but its actually tricks that can be performed from notepad. You can try these tricks from other text editors on your windows computers.

These tricks are very interesting and cool. You can use these tricks to prank your friends, just for fun or for different useful purpose.
1. Create Fake Windows Errors: 
This is my best notepad trick to prank with friends. You can create error dialogue in windows just copy these code and paste it to notepad. Save it as error.vbs and open it. You will get error.
Fig 01: Fake Error Message on Windows
X=Msgbox("Error Message",0+16,"Error Title")
You can change  Error Message to Any message and Error Title to error windows title. for eg. I changed Error Message to 'Go back, This computer is Going to Blast.' and Error Title to ' Warning: Leave This Computer Now' and the result is shown in fig 01.
2. Open Notepad Continually
This is another cool Notepad trick to play with your friend’s system. It will continuously open notepad and hang system. Simply copy the code
@ECHO off
:top
START %SystemRoot%\system32\note
GOTO top
Save it as  notepad.vbs file and open it to see what happens. To stop this Go to task manager (Alt+Ctrl+Del) and stop  notepad.vbs.

3. Create Matrix Effect:
In many movies in hackers  computer string of green characters appearing at the screen randomly like in Matrix movie. You can do it with your computer.
Copy the code
@echo off
color 02
:start
echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%
goto start
Save it as Matrix.bat and open it. Done, you did it!
4. Change Text to Speech:
You can change text to speech with just simple notepad trick. If you have long article to read then you may feel bore to read it, You can listen it with this trick.
Copy this message
  Dim message, sapi
message=InputBox(“Tricnp Text to Speech changer”,”Write your Message here”)
Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
sapi.Speak message
Fig 02: Change Text To Speech

Save it as Speech.vbs, open it and paste text in the field and hit ok button. Check Fig 02.
5. Shut Down Computer using Notepad:
Everyone need quick, Who have time to shutdown computer with long process/ traditional process? just click twice on a file and shutdown your computer. Copy this code
@echo off
msg * Shutdown the System
shutdown -c “Bye!” –s

And save it as shutdown.vbs and open it to shutdown your computer.
Congratulation mate you learned 5 cool notepad tricks now you can be like hero in front of your friend to impress ladies  , oh wait you have bonus too..
Bonus: Using Notepad As Logbook:
Do you still use your old diary to write note/log? If you use them then its a time of revolution. Notepad will make your work easier. Just save a Notepad file as .log for eg MySchool.log when you open this file notepad will enter date and time automatically for you.
Thanks for reading And feel free to comment below.

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