Notepad Programming Tricks

Try our 5 interesting Notepad programming tricks to either impress friends or surprise your people around you. Open Notepad, copy-paste the following in it, and save it as a .bat file. Once you click to open the bat file, get ready for a surpeize.

1] Typing Slow

As the name suggests, this trick delays the typing response by a fraction of seconds. To try it out, just copy and paste the text below into notepad and save it as a .vbs file.

2] The Matrix animation

The Matrix movie was a sci-fi masterpiece that’s hard to recreate but some of its elements can be incorporated into Windows Notepad application via a simple line of code. All you need to do isCopy and paste this code into Notepad: Then, simply save the file with the .bat extension. Now, when you double-click the file to open it, you’ll see numbers in motion.

3] Keyboard Disco trick

Some LED keyboards can be configured to flash keys in a rhythmic way. For example, when you copy-paste or activate this simple Visual Basic Script in a Notepad file, the LEDs of your Caps Lock, Scroll lock, and Num lock keys flash in a choreographed sequence or appear to be doing disco. Save as a .vbs file. Now, double-click the saved file to enjoy the view.

4] Password Generator

Creating a strong and unique password can be a task for some users. So, if you would like to create a password generator, try this handy trick in Notepad. Paste the following code in a Notepad file. Save this file with .bat extension. Then, double-click the file.

5] Shut down PC using Notepad

This Notepad trick code lets you shut down your PC in an instant without having to click the Shutdown button and then OK. Just save the file with .vbs extension and press it when you need to shut down the system. It will work as a switch! Do you have more tricks to share with us? Write about them in the comments section below! Read next: Notepad Tips and Tricks for Windows 10 users.