10 Best Notepad Tricks, Hacks & Commands 



Notepad is the best text editor provided by Microsoft in Windows. It is very helpful when we want to create a note. The text files saved by Notepad are saved in .txt format which is supported by every text editor. So, the files created by Notepad are compatible to open, edit and modify everywhere and anywhere.

  So, today i m gonna show some amazing notepad commands

People generally consider Notepad simple. and only for text editing , Notepad is very small sized text-editor but addressing it as “simple” would be a crime, because it can execute or show the source code of many unknown extensions files and Notepad itself have many amazing commands  to make it more useful to you.

Today, I am going to show you 10 best Notepad Tricks that you can use to get most out of Notepad and get amazed.



Notepad Tricks:

1. Create a Personal Diary on Notepad or Notepad LOG trick

This Notepad trick will allow you to make Notepad note in such a format that whenever you edit your note, it will get saved with date and timestamp automatically.

Follow these steps:

Open Notepad
Type .LOG in first line.
Save the file as Log.txt
Now, write something to the file and it will automatically get saved with edited date and time.




2. Create Fake Windows Errors With Notepad

This is another amazing Notepad command that helps you to create Fake windows error messages. You can create Fake error message with any message. To do this,

Follow these steps:

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


3. Force Shutdown Your Windows

This trick will help you shutdown your pc in just a One click. So, if you don’t want to do three clicks
(Start >> Turn Off Computer >> Turn Off), this trick will help you in that.

 To do this:

Open Notepad
Paste-    @echo off      (in first line.)
Paste-    msg * Shutdown computer    (in second line.)
Paste-    shutdown -c “Sleep Tight” -s    (in third line)



Save the file with .BAT extension. For example, shutdown.bat

Double Click on your file and it will automatically shutdown your Windows.

Put this file to your enemy's pc startup folder

4. Create Password-protected Folder using Notepad

Why to use any folder-locking software when your simple text editor, Notepad can lock your folders!

To use this Notepad tricks, follow these steps:

Open Notepad
Copy the following code:
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Private
if EXIST “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Private goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure you want to lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p “cho=>”
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Private “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
attrib +h +s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to unlock folder
set/p “pass=>”
if NOT %pass%== ifuncyber.blogspot.com goto FAIL
attrib -h -s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
ren “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” Private
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Private
echo Private created successfully
goto End
:End

ifuncyber.blogspot.com written in red is password. Change it to your own password.
Save the file as private.bat with File Type As All Files (*.*).
Now, when you click private.bat, it will create a Private folder. Move your private files, documents and folders here.
Close Private folder.
Now, no one will be able to open the folder without the password.


5. Make Computer To Speak Your Sentence

This Notepad trick will make computer to speak whatever you type in the p text-box. To use this trick,

Follow these steps:

Open Notepad
Copy & paste this command:

Dim message, sapi
message=InputBox(“What do you want me to say?”,”Speak to Me”)
Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
sapi.Speak message


 Save the file as speak.vbs.




Double-click the file and it will open a prompt. Enter the sentence you want your computer to speak

Click OK and Notepad will speak the sentence for you.


Note – In case, if you encounter error, re-type all the quotes and this notepad command will work.


6. Make CD Drive Open & Close Again and again

This notepad virus will make your CD drive open and close again and again. To use this notepad trick,

Use these following steps:

Open Notepad
Enter following command:

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 your notepad file as cdopen.vbs

Now, Run cdopen.vbs and it will start the process to continuously open and close CD drive.

To stop this virus, open Task Manager by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del and stop cdopen.vbs process.


7. Create Matrix Raining Code Screen

Definitely you have watched movie Matrix , “Matrix”? You might have seen string of green characters appearing at their computer screen randomly. We are going to do something similar using Notepad. To use this Notepad trick,

Follow these steps:

Open Notepad.
Type this command:


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

Save the file as Matrix.bat
Click on Matrix.bat.


Alternatively, you can use this code for different effect:
@echo off
:a
color 2

echo 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
ping localhost -n 1 > nul
echo 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 a f h 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0
echo 1 0 0 1 1 0 9 8 1 2 0 1 9 9 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1
ping localhost -n 1 > nul
echo 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 01 0 1 0 0 1 0
ping localhost -n 1 > nul
echo 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 9 1 1 2 1 1 0 9 1 0 5 7 7 8 7 8 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 3 2 1 3 4
ping localhost -n 1 > nul
echo 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 4 1 2 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 1 1 0 1
goto a

8. Make Your Keyboard LED Dance

Your keyboard has three LEDs upper right side, numpad of Scroll Lock, Caps Lock and Num Lock. This Notepad trick will make those three LED continually on and off, creating rhythmic dancing effects. To do this,

Follow these steps:

Open Notepad
Enter following code

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


Save the file as Dance.vbs

Click the file and your all three LED lights will start dancing.

To stop, Shut down or Log off your PC.


9. EICAR Test File: Test Your Antivirus

Do you want to check if your costlyAntivirus’ real-time protection is working correctly or not? Then this European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR) code will help you in that.

Open Notepad

Copy this code:
 X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Save the with .COM extension. For example, test.com





If your antivirus’ real-time protection is working perfectly, it will show you alert and quarantine the file by considering it malware.



10. Bush Hid The Facts

This is very simple but the most popular Notepad trick. To use this notepad trick, follow these steps:

Open Notepad

Type

 BUSH HID THE FACTS

Save that file

Open it again & see. Amazing?

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