NOTEPAD TRICKS

                               Notepad, the text editor that comes bundled in Windows is an excellent tool for text editing. But that is not the only thing for which notepad is famous. It is also famous for its tricks and hacks. Here is a roundup of some of the best and coolest tricks that you can try using Notepad.

Matrix Falling Code Effect - Notepad CMD (.BAT) Tricks     

              Inspired by the movie Matrix, this falling code trick is extremely popular. Just follow the steps and see the amazing matrix effect happen in your DOS window:

• Open Notepad.
• Copy the below mentioned text in your notepad file:
• Save the file with .bat extension like Matrix.bat

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

 

Constantly Repeat Messages  

          Using this notepad trick you can annoy anyone and can actually force them to REBOOT the computer. This notepad trick will create an infinite cycle of a message in the computer. Follow the steps to know more:

@ECHO off
:Begin
msg * Hi
msg * Are you having fun?
msg * I am!
msg * Lets have fun together!
msg * Because you have been o-w-n-e-d
GOTO BEGIN

Save the file with any file name but with .bat as extension and close it. For Ex. "anything.bat"

Shut-down The Computer After Conveying Any Message  

                      This one is kind of an annoying trick and if used unknowingly can certainly cause problems. What this trick does is, after conveying a (any) message it shuts down the computer without any confirmation. In order to create the Shutdown file, follow the below mentioned steps:    

• Open Notepad.
• Paste the following code in it:

shutdown -s -c "Error! You have to take rest! Byeeeeee" -t 20

Save the file with .bat extension like "Error.bat"

Open Notepad Continuously

• Open Notepad.
• Paste the following code in your notepad file:

@ECHO off
:top
START c:\windows\notepad.exe
GOTO top

Save the file with any name nut with .bat extension and close it.
Now open the file and see how it annoys you by opening notepad again and again.

Make A Personal Log-Book 

Follow the below mentioned steps to make one for yourself !

• Open Notepad.
• Type .LOG (in capital letters) and hit enter.
• Save it with any name and close it.
• Open it again.

When you open the file again you will see the current date and time being inserted automatically after the .LOG line. This will happen automatically every time you reopen the the notepad file.

Notepad Trick - Text to Audio

1. Open Notepad file on your Windows PC.
2. Copy and paste the below mentioned code :

  Dim msg, sapi                                                                                                                     
  msg=InputBox("Enter your text for conversion–www.techvorm.com",          

 "TechVorm Text-To-Audio 

Converter")                                                                                               
   Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice") sapi.Speak msg    

Save this file with any name with .vbs as extension. For eg. Text-To-Audio.vbs