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February 17, 2015 by Androidtechy 1 Comment
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Command Prompt is one of the most powerful tools in Windows; but sadly, it is also the most
ignored one. Things were not always like this; but with the advent of GUI based operating
systems, people started feeling that computing through command based tools was boring. Th
ultimately lead the command prompt into obscurity.
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Here are some cool tricks that can be done using command prompt.
1.Watch ASCII version of the Star Wars
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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
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 wa
you must first enable telnet by going to Control Panel Programs Turn Windows Feature On
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 t
main Start page.
Type telnet and press Enter.
In the following command prompt window, type o without quotes and press Enter.
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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 i
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%%rand
3.Make Undeletable, Unrenamable Folders
The basic concept behind this trick is the use of Keywords. Keywords are reserved words in a
programming language that cannot be used as names of variables. Windows also uses certain
keywords in its programming. Some of them are con, aux, lpt1, lpt2, lpt3, lpt4, lpt5, lpt6, lpt7,
and lpt9.
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Programming in Windows to create a folder with a keyword as its name using the steps given
below:Click on Start.
Click on Run. Type in cmd without quotes.
In the Command Prompt Window that opens, type the name of the drive you wish to cr
your folder in the format <drive-name>: and press Enter. e.g. If you wish to create the
undeletable folder in D drive, type D: without the quotes. Note that the folder cannot b
created in the root of C: drive (if C: is your system drive).
Type this command- md con\ or md lpt1\ without the quotes and press Enter. You
choose any of the keywords given above as the name of your folder.
Now Windows will create an undeletable, unrenamable folder in the drive you entered in Step
However, the folder can be renamed to another keyword using Windows Explorer
4.Shutdown your computer giving a funny reason
Type shutdown -s -t 500 -c I am tired. I dont want to work anymore. (with the quotes) in th
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.
5.Know your IP address, DNS Servers address and a lot more about your Internet Connect
Command Prompt can even let you know your IP address. Just type ipconfig/ all in the comm
prompt and press Enter. Along with your IP address and DNS servers, command prompt will
return a ton of information like your host name, primary DNS suffix, node type, whether IP
Routing ,Wins Proxy, and DHCP are enabled, your network adapters description, your physic
(MAC) address etc .
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6.Know if your neighbours are stealing your WiFi connection

Command Prompt can let you know if someone is connected to your Local Area Connection
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 rou
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
Hardware Address) of your computer using the previous trick.
4 )Compare it with those displayed by your router in Step 2. If you notice some strange devic
then your neighbour has been sneaking in on your internet connection and it is best to add a
password.
7.Know if someone is hacking your computer/ Trace a Hacker
Want to know if someone is hacking your computer? Command Prompt can help you find if
someone you dont 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 takin
place (TCP or UDP) , Local address column gives the port with which your computer is conne
to an external computer and the Foreign Address column gives the external computer you ar
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 T

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Arjun mahishi says
February 18, 2015 at 8:26 pm
Brilliant !!!!
I pretty much knew about the others but the star wars on was the best!
Never seen anything like it before!
What is TELNET by the way ?
Thanks for introducing me to such a thing !
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To watch it on Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux

Now type towel.blinkenlights.nl without the quotes and press Enter.

6.Know if your neighbours are stealing your WiFi connection

connection (whether a connection is actually established, or waiting for transmission or is T

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