Notepad is a very basic, common and well known text editor. Many think that we can’t do anything awesome with it as it was to old and boring. Today I will show 5 notepad tricks you can do and scare your friends.
I want to add a small Note: The following tricks do not harm your computer. However if you want to get out of the trick just restart your computer or just delete the notepad file you saved.
4 Crazy Things You can do with Notepad and Scare Your Friends
#1. Continuously Toggle On-Off the Caps Lock button :
- First open the Notepad by pressing windows key and letter ‘r’ together and then type Notepad.
- Cope the code here into the the text editor.
Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") do wscript.sleep 150 wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}" loop
- Now save the file with a .vbs extension rather than the standard .txt extension.
- Now send this file to your friend and ask them to open it.
#2. Continuously Pop open the DVD Drive:
This trick will sure make your friend go crazy.
- First open the Notepad by pressing windows key and letter ‘r’ together and then type Notepad.
- Cope the code into the the text editor.
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 4000 loop
- Now save the file with a .vbs extension rather than the standard .txt extension.
- Now send this file to your friend and ask them to open it.
#3. Hack keyboard to make it type something you want continuously:
- First open the Notepad by pressing windows key and letter ‘r’ together and then type Notepad.
- Cope the code into the the text editor.
Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “I tricked you.”
loop
- Change the text in I tricked you to something you want.
- Now save the file with a .vbs extension rather than the standard .txt extension.
- Now send this file to your friend and ask them to open it.
#4. Show an error message you want and shut down the computer :
- First open the Notepad by pressing windows key and letter ‘r’ together and then type Notepad.
- Cope the code into the the text editor.
@echo off
msg * You fell for it again
shutdown -c “You are too stupid to open this” -s
msg * You fell for it again
shutdown -c “You are too stupid to open this” -s
- Now save the file with a .vbs extension rather than the standard .txt extension.
- Now send this file to your friend and ask them to open it.