Some Cool Notepad Tricks for Windows PCs

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Notepad Windows PCs have a text editor named Notepad. Everyone knows about it and I am not going to say anything new. The new things which I am going to say is about playing and have fun with Notepad applications. Notepad can be used as a fun Application too and it shows some weird behaviors too.. So I have brought in front of you some Notepad tricks which give weird results when executed.

Notepad tricks

Notepad Trick 1 : Use Notepad as a Log Book
Open notepad >> Write .LOG in the first line >> Save the File and close it.
When you open this file again, you will see the current date and time and you can enter your activities there to keep a Log of what you have done at what time. You can save this file as a Diary! You can press F5 to refresh and get the current time.

Notepad Trick 2 : World Trade Center Attack
Open notepad >> Write Q33N >> Increase Font size to 72 >> Change Font to Wingdings
This will show you how the World Trade Center episode happened. First the Plane hit two towers and then caused lots of damage.

Notepad Trick 3 : 4335 Trick
Open notepad >> Write this app can break in the first line >> Save the File and close it.
After opening the file again, you will see that it contains all encoded characters. It happens if we enter four words separated by spaces, wherein the first word has 4 letters, the next two have three letters each, and the last word has five letters. Then Notepad Automatically hides the text into unknown code.
It also works if you type AAAA BBB CCC DDDDD or any other 4-3-3-5 letter combination.

Notepad Trick 4 : Shut Down the Computer
Open notepad >> Write
@echo off msg * I am tired. shutdown -c “So, Bye Bye” -s
>> Save the File as AnyName.bat
When you will open this file, your Computer will Shut down on its own after showing the message in it.

Notepad Trick 5 : Open Notepad Continuously
Open notepad >> Write
@ECHO off :top START %SystemRoot%\system32\notepad.exe GOTO top
>> Save the File as AnyName.bat
When you try to open this file, Multiple Notepad Windows will keep opening up.

Do let me know if you had fun with these tricks! I had written some more tricks some time back, you can check then out too..
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Comments (22)

Lucifer | Blog Is Blogging

July 23rd, 2010 at 8:52 am

5 out of 2 tricks i was knowing and i tried 2 more now

Will try the trick 4 when i really need to shut down my computer

Rohit Sane

July 23rd, 2010 at 10:50 pm

@Lucifer: I think you mean ’2 out of 5′ and not 5 out of 2 lol.. Thats fine!!

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July 24th, 2010 at 1:09 am

The first one is really useful – I’ll be using that for a diary like you say!

The only one I knew was the 2nd.

Lucifer | Blog Is Blogging

July 24th, 2010 at 1:49 am

@rohit Lol yes … by mistake i wrote 5 out of 2 instead of 2 out of 5

Vector Graphics

July 24th, 2010 at 2:17 am

awesome! I am using this shutdown for long time..

SQL Training

July 26th, 2010 at 12:43 am

Cool tricks, I had forgot the shut down trick. I think the shutdown trick can be used in Command prompt too right?

Arafat Hossain Piyada

July 26th, 2010 at 9:37 pm

The last trick is little bit annoying and can hang machine. Will try it in my friend PC

Vipin @ Romantic SMS

July 27th, 2010 at 6:52 am

Excellent post Rohit, i wasn’t aware of those tricks. Thanks for sharing, i liked world trade center trick it’s amazing…..
Keep sharing these good tips work bro

Paritosh

July 29th, 2010 at 4:05 am

I wrote a similar article but still somehow managed to NOT include some of the tricks given above :p

Steve

July 29th, 2010 at 8:34 am

I’ve always like notepad… great for working on html. But I’ve never known about these “tricks”. The world trade center one might be in questionable taste… but it is interesting. I like the comment about trying the “shut down your computer” on someone else’s computer. Steve

Steve

July 29th, 2010 at 8:57 am

Just a word of warning to your other readers…
I tried the World Trade Center trick and changed my font to wingdings. What I just found out is that when I opened a notepad file I regularly use, it is in wingdings too! I tried changing back to what I thought the font used to be… but nothing looked right. Arghhhh…
Anyway, I googled “notepad default font” and it is “Lucida Console, Regular, 10″ for anyone like me that doesn’t know or can’t remember.
Now everything looks normal again!
Steve

Shabnam Sultan

August 2nd, 2010 at 9:10 am

Nice tips will try them .

Nasir

August 6th, 2010 at 11:17 pm

I use the .LOG to write notes and the shut down also… but the other are also fun… great…

nani

August 9th, 2010 at 9:52 pm

Just a word of warning to your other readers…
I tried the World Trade Center trick and changed my font to wingdings. What I just found out is that when I opened a notepad file I regularly use, it is in wingdings too! I tried changing back to what I thought the font used to be… but nothing looked right. Arghhhh…
Anyway, I googled “notepad default font” and it is “Lucida Console, Regular, 10? for anyone like me that doesn’t know or can’t remember.
Now everything looks normal again!

Yongfan

August 10th, 2010 at 11:25 am