Notepad Tricks- Some Useful Notepad Tricks For Windows

Notepad is text editor present in Microsoft operating system for text editing.  Notepad files are usually saved with .txt extension but we can change extension according to our use. Notepad can be used in various type of programming like to generate batch file or vbs script. This article contain top five cool notepad tricks which are very useful.

1. Use Notepad as a personal log

You can use Notepad as a digital log for noting down your activities.

-> Open your Notepad.

-> Type .LOG in capital letters on Notepad.

-> Save the file and close it.

-> Now, every time you open this file, notepad will automatically insert the current time and date before the note. Just enter your note and save the file each time after making an entry. 

2. Make a matrix using notepad

-> Open your Notepad.

-> Copy the below code to Notepad.

@echo off

color 02

:start

echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%

goto start

-> Now Save as file with .bat extension and Save as typebox to All Files.

-> Double click on this bat file to see the magic.

3. Shutdown your pc using notepad

-> Open your Notepad.

-> Copy the below code to Notepad.

@echo off

shutdown -s -t 60 -c "hahaha"

msg * you are crap lol

-> Now Save as file with .bat extension and Save as typebox to All Files.

-> Double click on this bat file to shut down your PC.

4. Make your computer talk

-> Open your Notepad.

-> Copy the below code to Notepad.

Dim speaks, speech

speaks="Welcome to your PC, Username"

Set speech=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")

speech.Speak speaks

-> Now Save as file with .vbs extension and Save as typebox to All Files.

-> Double click on this VBS script to see the magic.

5. Make shortcut to a website

-> Open your Notepad.

-> Copy the below code to Notepad.    

@echo off

start iexplore www.beginerspoint.blogspot.in

-> Now Save as file with .bat extension and Save as typebox to All Files.

-> Double click on this bat file to open the website.