Top 5 Cool Notepad Tricks
Josephine Heathershaw
But wait! That is not all this tiny tool can do. As many of you would know, Notepad can be used to play several cool tricks that one can perform to either impress friends, or just play pranks on unsuspecting people.
This is a cool Notepad trick which will allow you to create fake error messages so that you can keep any unwanted guests on your computer stay away. You can also just do this for the sake of experimenting as it is impressive nonetheless.
The title itself is pretty self-explanatory, follow the details to know how to use Notepad as your personal diary without installing an additional tool. This trick allows you to get rid of a paid diary software.
Use this trick to play a prank on your friend and leave him baffled. By writing a script on your notepad, you can enable the CapsLock key to toggle itself on and off automatically and every few moments.
Now all there is left to do is to convince someone to click on that file and see the look of annoyance on their face. On computers with low confoguration, this might even lead to the PC hanging up and your friend hitting you ?
This is another annoying trick that you can play on your friends to get them to leave your computer or just an item for the sake of it. It creates an infinite cycle of a single message on your computer screen that will surely scare the hell out of your friends.
We do not lack methods that you can use to annoy your friends. This is a trick to make notepad register typed texts slower than usual and keep your friends wondering what the hell is wrong. You can use this trick to convice your parents that your computer needs an upgrade ?
Before you proceed with the instructions, we would like to tell you that this is a rather risky trick and might not be taken in a good sense by everyone. What it does is that it shows a message to the user and shuts down the computer without requiring any confirmation. Even though we believe that there is no use for this trick, it can be played as a prank.
To type a word repeatedly for whatever reason, just copy and paste the following code into your notepad file and save it as a .vbs file. This method eliminates the need to write something again and again.
Note: Some of the above mentioned Notepad tricks are minor hacks which work because of the bugs that exist in Windows. With each Windows update, Microsoft keeps updating Notepad as well. And thus, some tricks that were working earlier may not be working now because an update might have removed those bugs.
Whoever says that Notepad is a boring application is wrong! Today, we will tell you really cool Notepad tricks that you can play with the help of your long-time companion, the Windows Notepad. A simple text editor like Notepad may not be the favorite of programmers but the same programmers are giving you codes that will make for an amazing demonstration.
When you save a file with .bat extension, it becomes an executable file. When you open such a file, your computer runs the program code saved in the file. The above give code creates randomly generated numbers and paint them green colored. This program will keep on generating random numbers until you close the command prompt window.
What if you could easily shut down your computer and also get it to say good night to you! You can set it up very easily. Copy the following code in Notepad and save the file as shutdown.bat (in fact you can use any name, just keep the .bat extension)
A small piece of Notepad code can allows you to create an application that will read out aloud whatever text you will give it as input. This feature really comes handy if you quickly want to convert a piece of text into spoken words.
The following Notepad code can automatically eject CD drive of your computer and keep on doing it repeatedly. You can use this script to bother your friends a little bit if that sounds like fun. Add the following code in Notepad and save the file as opencd.vbs. Double click the saved file and see what happens.
Add the following code in a new Notepad file and save it with .vbs extension. This code will keep on opening Notepad instances. As a result, your computer screen will be full of just Notepad windows.
Warning: This is another trick that may make your computer to hang. Computer may become too busy in opening more and more Notepad windows that it will hardly get any time to do anything else. So, try it with care!
Every standard PC keyboard has three lock keys, namely Caps-lock, Num-lock and Scroll-lock. Each of these keys has an LED light on keyboard that shows the status of that lock. The following code can make these LED lights blink in a fashion so as to make them appear as dancing lights.
Some of the older versions of Notepad have an interesting bug in it. Write four words of 4,3,3 and 5 letters and then save the file. When you will open this file again, instead of what you had written, you will see gibberish text. Following are some of the examples of such 4-3-3-5 sentences:
This is probably the most useful Notepad code on the list. This trick creates a password protected private folder in your computer. Whatever you will place inside this folder will remain private until the opener provides a password.
Close the password-protected folder. The next time you will open it, it will ask for a password. The password in the above code is techwelkin. We have highlighted the password in the above code. You can change it to anything you want in the the Notepad file. You should keep a strong password for added security (you can use our strong password generator).
These were some of the coolest Notepad codes and tricks. We will add more Notepad tricks in this list as and when we will discover them. We hope that this article was useful for you. Thank you for using TechWelkin!
However, beneath its simple look, it also hides many cool Notepad tricks that you may love to try out. As Notepad is a plain text editor, it handles code very well. This combined with the ability to easily manipulate file type leads to many amazingly cool tricks that can affect a PC positively and also negatively. Learning these useful Notepad tricks can be quite productive and fun at the same time, just utilize the cool Notepad hacks carefully.
Note: Some of the Notepad tricks mentioned below are not only limited to Notepad, some other editors may also be able to perform them. However, Notepad is the easiest editor to access and perform the trick, and knowing you can do these tricks right from your Notepad is a blessing itself.
With Notepad you can also create a Personal Diary that will time and date stamp your edits so you would know when a particular edit is made (just like a diary). Of course, it can have many other uses as well, so do give it a look.
There are many cool things to do in Notepad and one of them is testing the efficiency of your antivirus program using cool notepad codes. With Notepad, you can create a fake virus that will surely alert a good Antivirus program. The virus is not harmful, but your Antivirus program will clean it if it is good, otherwise, get ready to look for a new Antivirus program.
With some cool Notepad hacks, you may also force shutdown a PC with a custom message. This can be quite a friendly prank for a friend who may think the PC is talking to them. Do note that force shutdown may also lead to loss of important data, save all important data before trying this prankiest Notepad trick.
This is an interesting yet dangerous Notepad trick. It will start opening multiple Notepad files with no way to stop them. However, this will eat up all the memory when too many copies (it can go above a hundred in seconds) are opened and most probably you will see the blue screen of death before needing to force start. So it will lead to the loss of any unsaved data as well. Make sure you save your important work and files before trying this Notepad hack.
A productive yet dangerous Notepad trick. You can use Notepad to completely wipe the C drive and all the data inside it. However, be careful while doing so and only practically use this trick when you actually want to format the C drive.
There are so many cool things you can do with Notepad. Among many other Notepad tricks and hacks, there is also a handy Notepad trick to create a password-protected folder in Windows. The password-protected folder created by this Notepad trick can only be accessed using the correct password, which means it is a perfect Notepad hack for some security reasons.
This Notepad trick is the same as the Continuous Notepad opening trick, but it will open a program in the background. The program will keep opening and in just a few seconds it will slow, freeze and then shut down the PC with the blue screen of death. So the risk of losing data is the same here as well, be careful while trying this trick and save all the important data.
Notepad is a great built-in tool for playing some tricks and also be a bit productive in the process. Some of the Notepad tricks mentioned above can also damage a PC or data if used negatively. So it solely depends on you how you use these cool Notepad tricks, and you will be responsible for any damages.
Like we mentioned at the start, there are also some tricks that are only meant to corrupt the system, we have refrained from these tricks as you can see. C drive format trick can harm a PC, but it is supposed to help as well because the formatting is an important part of PC use. Did you find any trick interesting? Share your experience in the comments section below.
Abhishek Dubey, also popularly known as AbhiTechy, is a tech geek who fell in love with the technology world at the early age of 14 years. He is co-founder of TechReviewPro.com. He is a gadget freak and an Apple fanboy. Abhishek loves messing up with iOS tips-tricks, hacks, and guides. When he is not writing here, you'll find him making useful videos about the latest gadgets, apps, software and various important iPhone-iPad-Mac tips-tricks and tutorials to share with the people on the AbhiTechy YouTube channel.
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