Showing posts with label Cmd Tricks. Show all posts
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Saturday, 29 November 2014

5 Amazing and Cool Notepad Tricks for Windows

Notepad is a default program that comes up with windows. Most of the people use it to create important notes and text documents. Today I am going to share some Cool Notepad tricks that you can perform on your computer. If your computer has windows 7,8,vista  or Windows XP then you can perform these interesting notepad tricks on it.
Apart from creating simple text documents on notepad, one can also do programming in it. Notepad is capable of executing Command Prompt (CMD) commands and visual basic scripts. There are some amazing notepad hacking tricks via CMD, that you can do with your friends and have fun. In this article, you will learn some popular notepad tricks of 2014. All these are harmless. People also use notepad to create harmful virus programs but we are not going to discuss them here.
Lets move forward:

NotePad Tricks and Pranks 2014

1-  Create a Personal Diary using Notepad

Notepad Diary Trick
Our elders used to have a personal diaries in which they wrote personal experiences, life events and other important things. But with advancement in technology, everything is now changed. If you are computer geek and spend most of the time on PC then by this cool notepad trick, you can create a personal diary for yourself.
Open notepad and write .LOG in it. Save it as diary.txt at some safe place. Now whenever you will open that notepad diary, it will automatically include date and time. Write whatever you want and It will be saved with the respective diary opening date and time.

2-  Create a Fake Error Message in Windows

This is another cool notepad prank that you can do with your friends. It can output any message you want in the form of Windows Error.
First of all open notepad and copy-paste X=Msgbox(“Your Error Message”,0+16,”Title of Error box “) to it. Finally save it as arwebzone.vbs and open it. You will see a fake error messagebox with your custom message and title. Play this notepad trick on your friends laptop and have fun.
If you replace 0+16 with 1+32 then the message box will contain two buttons (OK and Cancel) and will display a warning query (question mark icon instead of error icon). Similarly you can use combinations of 3+484+64 etc. to generate different error messages.
Custom Error Messagebox Using Notepad
You can repeat the above error command as many time as you like in order to generate multiple error messages in sequence.

3-  Open all CD Drives again and again (Prank)

Here is another cool notepad prank that automatically opens all the cd/dvd drives of your computer. When you push the drive back, it will eject it again. You can perform this annoying trick on your friends computer to have fin.
First of all open notepad and copy paste the following code:
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 3000
loop
Save the file as cdtrick.vbs on your computer. Finally open the file and see the magic. :D
You can disable the command any time by opening task manager and killing the process namedwscript.exe

4-  Matrix Falling/Raining Trick using Notepad

Matrix Falling Trick
If you have watched The matrix movie then you might have seen a vertically falling down code just at the beginning of it. You can use simple notepad to perform the same trick on your computer.
Open notepad and copy-paste the following code.
@echo off
color 02
:arwebzone
echo %random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%
goto arwebzone
Save the file as matrix.bat and open it to see the same matrix falling code on your computer.

5-  Capslock, Scroll lock, Numlock keyboard Lights Prank

Computer keyboards come up with led lights that indicates whether some particular key function out of Capslock, Scrol lock or numlock is activated or not. Here is a mysterious notepack trick by which you can make a fun program that automatically turn these notification lights on and off repeatedly.
Copy-paste the below code in notepad and save it as lights.vbs
Set Wshshell =wscript.Createobject ("wscript.shell")
do
Wscript.sleep 100
wshShell.sendkeys "(numlock)"
wshShell.sendkeys "(scrolllock)"
wshShell.sendkeys "(capslock)"
loop
After opening that file, you will observe that the notification lights on keyboard gets turned on and off repeatedly.
For stopping the process, simply open Task Manager by pressing alt+ctrl+delete buttons simultaneously and under processes tab, find the process named wscripts.exe. Right click on it and click on end process option.

Friday, 28 November 2014

Command Prompt Tricks, Hacks and Codes

Command Prompt also known as cmd is one of the most important tool in the Windows operating system, it looks plain and confusing at first sight. But has so many functions that can save one from some unexpected issues, programmers and hardware specialist often refer back to the command prompt time to time.
You will find cool and awesome unknown features of the command prompt and some really good tricks that you can use to amuse your colleagues and friends.

Copy items on the command prompt:

Have you ever wondered how you can copy, stuffs you have on your command prompt screen.
Step 1:  Right click anywhere on your cmd screen
Step 2: Select Mark
Step 3: Highlight portion you will like to copy with the left mouse click and highlight.
Step 4: Press the Enter button to copy.
Step 5: Paste in any other valid document or program.
command prompt tricks

Star Wars Episode 4 Movie on CMD

This is any trick and fun thing with Command Prompt, an entire episode of star wars 4 can be watched on cmd, you will need to have an internet connection though to watch the movie.
Step 1: Open CMD and enter telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Step 2: Press enter to start watching the movie immediately.
For Windows Vista and above, you will need to add or activate Telnet Client, to do this open your control panel, click on Programs and features then Turn windows features on or off. Find Telnet Client and check it, click ok to activate.

Copy File Path from File Drop into CMD

If you need to get a file path easily, you can open cmd, type cd then drag and drop the file into cmd it will automatically display the file path your just dropped. This method prevents you from making silly mistakes that can cost you, your time.

To Shut Down your PC, you can do that with CMD

Step 1: Open cmd
Step 2: Type shutdown/i
Step 3: Press Enter, a dialog box for windows shutdown will appear.
Step 4; Choose your preferred option.
This method can be used in a network environment, you can display reason for shutdown and time remaining before shutdown commences.

Run a Two in One Command on cmd

You can run multiple Windows commands in one go from the command prompt. For example, you can start or stop a service from a command prompt by typing “Net Start/Stop.” What if you need to restart a service from the command prompt? In that case, you can use a double ampersand — && — which allows you to run multiple “Net” commands in one line to first stop and then restart the service.

Clear your Clipboard Item

This cool trick will clear all items on your clip board, your clipboard has tendency to eat up your memory space. To do this open cmd and type the command Echo Off and there you go. Press enter and you are fine.

Detect those Stealing your WiFi Connection

Command Prompt can let you know if someone is connected to your Local Area Connection and using it. Just follow the steps:-
1) Open your browser and visit http://192.168.1.1 or http://192.168.0.1 depending on your router.
2) Find the tab that mentions “Attached Devices” or something similar.
3) Find the computer name, IP address and MAC Address (sometimes called Physical Address or Hardware Address) of your computer using the previous trick.
4 )Compare it with those displayed by your router in Step 2.

Detect those connecting to your computer illegally

Command Prompt can help you find if someone you don’t know is connected to your computer stealing private data. Just execute netstat -a and the command prompt will return a list of computers that your computer is connected to.
In the results returned, Proto column gives the type of data transmission taking place (TCP or UDP) ,
Local address column gives the port with which your computer is connected to an external computer and the Foreign Address column gives the external computer you are connected to along with the port being used for the connection.
State gives the state of the connection (whether a connection is actually established, or waiting for transmission or is “Timed Out”).

Shortcut to run cmd as administrator

Search for cmd on the search bar, Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter and then click on the cmd icon to open as admin, this works for all documents and files on your PC.
Check your Network Information at a glance.
Open Command Prompt and execute ipconfig /all. This will give all information concerning your ip address, host, DHCP server and DNS information.

CMD function key shortcut commands.

F1: Pastes the last executed command (character by character)
F2: Pastes the last executed command (up to the entered character)
F3: Pastes the last executed command
F4: Deletes current prompt text up to the entered character
F5: Pastes recently executed commands (does not cycle)
F6: Pastes ^Z to the prompt
F7: Displays a selectable list of previously executed commands
F8: Pastes recently executed commands (cycles)
F9: Asks for the number of the command from the F7 list to paste

10 Super Cool Notepad Tricks, Hacks & Commands

Notepad is the simplest text editor provided by Microsoft in every version of Windows. It is helpful when we want to create a quick note. The files created by Notepad are saved in.txt format which is supported by every text editor. So, the files created by Notepad are compatible to open, edit and modify everywhere.
People generally consider Notepad simpler than what it is. But readers, Notepad is light-weight text-editor but saying it “simpler” would be wrong because it can open many unknown extensions files and Notepad itself hold many amazing commands, tricks and hacks to make it more productive for you.
Today, I am going to share 10 amazing Notepad Tricks & Hacks that you can use to get most out of Notepad and amaze your friends.
Notepad Tricks

1. Create Diary on Notepad

This Notepad trick will allow you to create Notepad note in such a format that whenever you edit your note, it will get saved with date and timestamp automatically. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Open Notepad
  2. Type .LOG in first line.
  3. Save the file as Log.txt
  4. Now, write something to the file and it will automatically get saved with edited date and time.
Notepad LOG Trick

2. Create Fake Windows Errors With Notepad

This is another very cool Notepad trick that allows you to create Fake error messages. You can create Fake error message with any message. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Open Notepad
  2. Type X=Msgbox(“Message Here”,0+16,”Title Here”)
  3. Replace Message Here and Title Here with your Error Message and Error-Window Title respectively.
  4. Save the file with error.vbs.
  5. Now, click the file and you’ll get your custom-made Windows error message.
notepad trick 2

3. Force Shutdown Your Windows

This trick will let you force shutdown your Windows in a single-click. So, if you don’t want to waste three clicks (Start >> Turn Off Computer >> Turn Off), this trick will help you in that. To do this:
  1. Open Notepad
  2. Paste @echo off in first line.
  3. Paste msg * Shutdown computer in second line.
  4. Paste shutdown -c “Sleep Tight” -s in third line
  5. Save the file with .BAT extension. For example, shutdown.bat
  6. Click on your file and it will automatically shutdown your Windows.
3rd Notepad Trick
You can imagine the disaster that may happen if you’ll put this file at Windows Startup ;)

4. Create Password-protected Folder using Notepad

Why to use any folder-locking software when your simple text editor, Notepad can lock your folders? To use this Notepad tricks, follow these steps:
  • Open Notepad
  • Copy the following code:
@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 LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %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 folder
set/p “pass=>”
if NOT %pass%== techgyd.com 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
  • techgyd.com written in red is password. Change it to your own password.
  • Save the file as private.bat with File Type As All Files (*.*).
  • Now, when you click private.bat, it will create a Private folder. Move your private files, documents and folders here.
  • Close Private folder.
  • Now, no one will be able to open the folder without the password.
Private

5. Make Computer To Speak Your Sentence

This Notepad trick will make computer to speak whatever you type in the provided text-box. To use this trick, follow these steps:
  1. Open Notepad
  2. Copy & paste this command:
Dim message, sapi
message=InputBox(“What do you want me to say?”,”Speak to Me”)
Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
sapi.Speak message
 
  1.  Save the file as speak.vbs.
  2. Double-click the file and it will open a prompt. Enter the sentence you want your computer to speak
  3. Click OK and Notepad will speak the sentence for you.
Speak Notepad Trick
Note - In case, if you encounter error, re-type all the quotes and this notepad trick will work fine.

6. Make CD Drive Open & Close Again and again

This notepad prank will make your CD drive open and close again and again continually. To use this notepad trick, use these following steps:
  1. Open Notepad
  2. Enter following command:
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 5000
loop
  1. Save your notepad file as cdopen.vbs
  2. Now, open cdopen.vbs and it will start the process to continuously open and close CD drive.
To stop the process, open Task Manager by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del and stop cdopen.vbs process.

7. Create Matrix Raining Code Screen

Have you watched the movie, “Matrix”? You might have seen string of green characters appearing at the screen randomly. We are going to do something similar with the help of Notepad. To use this Notepad trick, follow these steps:
  1. Open Notepad.
  2. Type this command:
@echo off
color 02
:start
echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%
goto start
  1. Save the file as Matrix.bat
  2. Click on Matrix.bat and the show begins.
matrix

Alternatively, you can use this code for different effect:
@echo off
:a
color 2
echo 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
ping localhost -n 1 > nul
echo 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 a f h 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0
echo 1 0 0 1 1 0 9 8 1 2 0 1 9 9 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1
ping localhost -n 1 > nul
echo 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 01 0 1 0 0 1 0
ping localhost -n 1 > nul
echo 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 9 1 1 2 1 1 0 9 1 0 5 7 7 8 7 8 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 3 2 1 3 4
ping localhost -n 1 > nul
echo 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 4 1 2 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 1 1 0 1
goto a
Source: Wikihow

8. Make Your Keyboard LED Dance

Your keyboard has three LEDs above numpad of Scroll Lock, Caps Lock and Num Lock. This Notepad trick will make those three LED continually on and off, creating dancing effects. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Open Notepad
  2. Enter following code
Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “{CAPSLOCK}”
wshshell.sendkeys “{NUMLOCK}”
wshshell.sendkeys “{SCROLLLOCK}”
loop
  1. Save the file as Dance.vbs
  2. Click the file and your all three LED lights will start dancing.
To stop, Shut down or Log off your PC.
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9. EICAR Test File: Test Your Antivirus

Do you want to check if your Antivirus’ real-time protection is working correctly or not? Then this European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR) code will help you in that.
  1. Open Notepad
  2. Copy this code: X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
  3. Save the with .COM extension. For example, testantivirus.com
If your antivirus’ real-time protection is working perfectly, it will show you alert and quarantine the file by considering it malware.
antivirus test

10. Bush Hid The Facts

This is very simple but the most popular Notepad trick. To use this notepad trick, follow these steps:
  1. Open Notepad
  2. Type BUSH HID THE FACTS
  3. Save that file
  4. Open it again & see. Amazing?
Alternatively, you can use this app can break.
4-3-3-5 notepad trick
What happens?
You might have seen that reopening the file will get show you some unicode characters instead of what you typed (Bush hid the facts or this app can break).
Why this happens?
Both the patterns have characters string of length 4-3-3-5 which seems to cause bug in Windows PC. So, this trick works ;)