5 simple Notepad tricks you need to know

Everyone knows the notepad in the windows. And all use it for simple text editing application. Well, think out of the box and use notepad for some cool tricks. Here are some cool handpicked notepad tricks you must try out.

1. Make notepad as your personal Dairy.
Do you want a dairy in your computer to note down the memorable moments of the days in your life. and you don't wish to download a separate software for the same? Notepad is for rescue. This can act as a personal logbook and everything you type will be saved with particular date and time.
Follow these simple trick to make notepad as a dairy of your life.

Open Notepad
In the first line, type ".LOG"
save the file as "log.txt"
Then open the file and write whatever you want to. Time and date are automatically appended.
Done.

2. Matrix code effect in Notepad
Are you a matrix movie fan? Create your own window of random numbers rolling up, using this notepad trick.
Type the below code in Notepad and save the file as "matrix.bat". Then run it.

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

3. Shut Down Your computer with a message.
DO you think the way of shutting down your Windows is too tedious? (Opening start menu, Click the 'Turn Off' button), and do you want these things to happen with just a click on an icon?. This trick is for you.
Follow the steps to create a shortcut icon to shut down your windows and also display a message during shut down if you want.

Type the following code in notepad and save it as "shutdown.bat". Run it to shut down the PC.

@echo off
msg*Computer will now shutdown.
shutdown -c "Bye buddy. Take care. Huihuihui :v" -s

Done.

4. Create a text-to-speech software.
What if Computer had to speak what you want it to speak? Awesome right? Have a look at this then,
Type the following Code in notepad and save it as "speak.vbs". Run it to Enter something you want the computer to speak, and click on 'Ok'. Computer will speak it loud :v
The code goes like this,

Dim message, sapi
message=InputBox("What should I speak?","Speak to me")
Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
sapi.Speak Message

Yes!! It is as simple as it looks :p

5. Fake window Error message
Want to freak out your friends by showing them a fake error message? This is the perfect trick.
Type the following code in Notepad and save it as "error.vbs". Then Open the error.vbs file to display your fake error message.
Show it to your friends. Freak the hell out of them.
Code is,

X=msgbox("Press OK and windows will restart now",0+16,"There is a serious problem in your PC. Probably a virus attack!")

That's it.

Did you find the tricks interesting? Let me know it in the comment box below :p

Author : Anonymous

He is a simple passionate tech freak who himself is an engineering student at Canara Engineering college. He likes App Development, Web designing, Blogging, Youtubing, Debugging and also is a CodeGeek!