Command prompt tips and tricks:
1.Watch ASCII version of the Star Wars
You can watch an ASCII version of the full Star Wars Movie right in your command prompt window. Just open command prompt, type a small code and the movie will start playing immediately.
To watch it on Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux:
Go to Start, Run. (Only for Windows users)
Now type “telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl” without the quotes and press Enter. Users of Mac OS X and Linux can directly execute this code in the terminal window.
On Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and Windows Vista
Telnet is turned off by default in the latest versions of Windows. So, in order to watch star wars, you must first enable telnet by going to Control Panel › Programs › Turn Windows Feature On or Off and ticking both the telnet check boxes. After doing that, follow the steps given below:-
Go to Start, Search in Windows Vista and Windows 7. On Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, open the main Start page.
Type telnet and press Enter.
In the following command prompt window, type “o” without quotes and press Enter.
Now type “towel.blinkenlights.nl” without the quotes and press Enter.
If you do not need telnet anymore, you can turn it off.
A command prompt window like the one in the image will open with the movie being played in it.
2.Create Matrix falling code effect
Inspired by the movie Matrix, this falling code trick is extremely popular on social networking websites. Copy and paste the code given below in Notepad and save the file as “Matrix.bat” or *.bat.
@echo off
color 02
:tricks
echo %random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%
3.Shutdown your computer giving a funny reason
Type shutdown -s -t 500 -c “I am tired. I don’t want to work anymore.” (with the quotes) in the Command Prompt and press Enter. The -c switch is used in the code to give the reason for shutting down and what is followed in quotes will be displayed in the dialog box as the reason. This can be used to display all sorts of funny messages.
1.Watch ASCII version of the Star Wars
You can watch an ASCII version of the full Star Wars Movie right in your command prompt window. Just open command prompt, type a small code and the movie will start playing immediately.
To watch it on Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux:
Go to Start, Run. (Only for Windows users)
Now type “telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl” without the quotes and press Enter. Users of Mac OS X and Linux can directly execute this code in the terminal window.
On Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and Windows Vista
Telnet is turned off by default in the latest versions of Windows. So, in order to watch star wars, you must first enable telnet by going to Control Panel › Programs › Turn Windows Feature On or Off and ticking both the telnet check boxes. After doing that, follow the steps given below:-
Go to Start, Search in Windows Vista and Windows 7. On Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, open the main Start page.
Type telnet and press Enter.
In the following command prompt window, type “o” without quotes and press Enter.
Now type “towel.blinkenlights.nl” without the quotes and press Enter.
If you do not need telnet anymore, you can turn it off.
A command prompt window like the one in the image will open with the movie being played in it.
2.Create Matrix falling code effect
Inspired by the movie Matrix, this falling code trick is extremely popular on social networking websites. Copy and paste the code given below in Notepad and save the file as “Matrix.bat” or *.bat.
@echo off
color 02
:tricks
echo %random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%
3.Shutdown your computer giving a funny reason
Type shutdown -s -t 500 -c “I am tired. I don’t want to work anymore.” (with the quotes) in the Command Prompt and press Enter. The -c switch is used in the code to give the reason for shutting down and what is followed in quotes will be displayed in the dialog box as the reason. This can be used to display all sorts of funny messages.
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