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How to play a custom audio message on windows startup

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Up to Windows 7, there used to be a sound that the PC used to play after the completion of the booting process. But the later versions of the Windows operating systems have stopped playing the audio at the startup. If you are using one of those operating systems and would like to have that sound back, don’t worry, there is a simple process where you can play a custom audio message on startup. I am here to explain you the detailed process in a few simple steps.

• First of all you need to create a Visual Basic script using Notepad, for that just open the Notepad in your PC and copy paste the line below

dim speech
welcome=”Welcome to your PC”
set speech=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
speech.speak welcome

Here “Welcome to your PC” is the custom audio message that you can replace with any other message that you wish to play while startup
• Now save that file with any name that can be recognized of its purpose and use the extension .vbs
• Try double clicking it and it should play your custom message
• Now you need to move this file to the Windows startup folder, to do that, open the run command and type shell:startup in the box and click on Ok which will open a new window
• Finally, copy and paste the file to this folder

That is it, you are done and on your next Windows startup, you will hear the custom audio message that you have set.

Surprising notepad tricks that everyone should try

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Windows Notepad is a basic writing application that is very much neglected I guess. Everyone knows that Windows Notepad as just a basic writing app which gets dominated by the various other feature filled applications. Actually notepad is powerful than what it actually looks like. Here are some surprising things that everyone should know about Notepad tricks, that are useful tips.

Get Line Count:

To view the number of lines in a Notepad document, you will have to display the status bar first, for that you have to View menu and then check whether the status bar option is checked. Windows Notepad even has a GOTO option just like the Microsoft Word and you can use it by just pressing CTRL + G, which opens the dialog box and there you can type the exact line number that you want to go to.

Find the Windows Product key:

You can retrieve your Windows Product key using a simple trick on Windows Notepad which is just copy and paste the following code in Notepad and save it with the extension .vbs

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId"))

Function ConvertToKey(Key)
Const KeyOffset = 52
i = 28
Chars = "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789"
Do
Cur = 0
x = 14
Do
Cur = Cur * 256
Cur = Key(x + KeyOffset) + Cur
Key(x + KeyOffset) = (Cur \ 24) And 255
Cur = Cur Mod 24
x = x -1
Loop While x >= 0
i = i -1
KeyOutput = Mid(Chars, Cur + 1, 1) & KeyOutput
If (((29 - i) Mod 6) = 0) And (i <> -1) Then
i = i -1
KeyOutput = "-" & KeyOutput
End If
Loop While i >= 0
ConvertToKey = KeyOutput
End Function

 

When you open this file, it will show you the windows product key.

Test your Antivirus:

Find how safe your PC is under the surveillance of your antivirus program. Just use this simple trick. Save the following harmless code of text in your Notepad.

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Your Antivirus software should pick it up as a malware and should take action accordingly. This will be small test for your antivirus software to know whether it is functioning properly or not.

So these are some surprising things that you can do with the Windows Notepad.  Do try these Notepad tricks and start using Notepad in a differently useful way. Useful tips in Notepad can be useful to you.

Cool tricks that you can do with Notepad

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Notepad, you may have just known it as a text editor and you may be thinking that its just a boring text editor which doesn’t have many features. But here are some interesting and cool things that you can do on your Notepad.

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Matrix Falling Code Effect in Notepad

Yes you can actually do that matrix falling effect inspired from the movie Matrix which is basically very popular in social networking sites. You just have to copy and paste the following code in the notepad and save it with the extension .bat and when you run the file, it’s the Matix falling code.

@echo off

color 02

:tricks echo %random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%

goto tricks

 

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Make your keyboard type the message (you want) continuously

This is just the coolest and fun thing that you can try on your friends. This will let your keyboard type the message continuously. This usually called the VBS trick. You just have to Copy and paste the below code and save it with an extension .vbs

Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)

do

wscript.sleep 100

wshshell.sendkeys “This is a Virus. You have been infected.”

loop

You will need to restart the computer to stop this soo. Do try this trick when you don’t have any important files on the way and see whether all the other programs are closed. Send this as a link to your friend to see the fun.

Create a harmless funny virus which ejects the cds/dvds continuously

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

Just copy and paste the above code in your notepad and save it with a filename of your choice with the extension .vbs

Create your personal diary log with notepad

Yes. You can easily create your personal diary log on your computer using notepad. This is so easy. Just open notepad and type .LOG and save the file. When you the file every time, it shows you the date and time. Just enter your thoughts and save the file all every time you use it.

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All the above mentioned tricks are not in anyway harmful to your computer. These are just funny things that you can try. For closing any of the tricks given above, you just have to go to task manager and close the wscript.exe process. The above mentioned tricks will work in windows 8, windows 7, windows xp and windows vista.