Notepad Tricks!That You May Not Know!

1. Create Diary on Notepad

This Notepad trick will allow you to create Notepad note in such a format that whenever you edit your note, it will get saved with date and timestamp automatically. To do this, follow these steps:

Open Notepad

2. 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:

Open Notepad

3. Force Shutdown Your Windows

This trick will let you force shutdown your Windows in a single-click. So, if you don’t want to waste three clicks (Start >> Turn Off Computer >> Turn Off), this trick will help you in that. To do this:

1. Open Notepad
2. Paste @echo off in first line.
3. Paste msg * Shutdown computer in second line.
4. Paste shutdown -c “Sleep Tight” -s in third line
5. Save the file with .BAT extension. For example, shutdown.bat
6. Click on your file and it will automatically shutdown your Windows.

You can imagine the disaster that may happen if you’ll put this file at Windows Startup

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%== filemars.blogsdpot.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

• filemars.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 provided text-box. To use this trick, follow these steps:

Open Notepad

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

6. Make CD Drive Open & Close Again and again

This notepad prank will make your CD drive open and close again and again continually. To use this notepad trick, use these following steps:

1. Open Notepad
2. Enter following command:
3. 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
4. Save your notepad file as cdopen.vbs
5. Now, open cdopen.vbs and it will start the process to continuously open and close CD drive.
6. To stop the process, open Task Manager by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del and stop cdopen.vbs process.

7. Create Matrix Raining Code Screen

Have you watched the movie, “Matrix”? You might have seen string of green characters appearing at the screen randomly. We are going to do something similar with the help of Notepad. To use this Notepad trick, follow these steps:

1. Open Notepad.
2. Type this command:
3. @echo off
4. color 02
5. :start
6. echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%
7. goto start
8. Save the file as Matrix.bat
9. Click on Matrix.bat and the show begins.

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. EICAR Test File: Test Your Antivirus

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

1. Open Notepad
2. Copy this code: X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
3. Save the with .COM extension. For example, filemars.blogspot.com

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

9. Bush Hid The Facts

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

1. Open Notepad
2. Type BUSH HID THE FACTS
3. Save that file
4. Open it again & see. Amazing?