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
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.