10 Amazing Notepad Hack Tricks

10 Super Cool Notepad Tricks, Hacks & Commands

Notepad is the simplest text editor provided by Microsoft in every version of Windows. It is helpful when we want to create a quick note. The files created 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.

1. Create a 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
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 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
Type

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 X=Msgbox(“Message Here”,0+16,”Title Here”) 

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Replace Message Here and Title Here 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 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:
Open Notepad
Paste this code

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 @echo off
 msg * Shutdown computer
 shutdown -c “Sleep Tight” -s 

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Save the file with .BAT extension. For example, shutdown.bat
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 scheduled run up or to run when Windows Starts..



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:

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@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%== techgyd.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 

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NOTE;

techgyd.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

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

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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 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:
Open Notepad

Enter following command:
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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, open cdopen.vbs and it will start the process to continuously open and close CD drive.


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:
Open Notepad.

Type this command:
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@echo off

color 02

:start

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

goto start 

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Save the file as Matrix.bat
Click on Matrix.bat and the show begins.

Alternatively, you can use this code for different effect:

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@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
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8. Make Your Keyboard LED Dance


Your keyboard has three LEDs above numpad of Scroll Lock, Caps Lock and Num Lock. This Notepad trick will make those three LED continually on and off, creating dancing effects. To do this, follow these steps:
Open Notepad

Enter following code
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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.

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9. 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.

Open Notepad
Copy this code: 

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

=========================================Save the with .COM extension. For example, testantivirus.com
If your antivirus’ real-time protection is working perfectly, it will show you alert and quarantine the file by considering it malware.

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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?


Alternatively, you can use" this app can break".

What happens?


You might have seen that reopening the file will get show you some unicode characters instead of what you typed (Bush hid the facts or this app can break).


Why this happens?


Both the patterns have characters string of length 4-3-3-5 which seems to cause bug in Windows PC. So, this trick works