You can use either of these things to mess around with your friends I do it all the time they will NOT destroy any part of your computer if you use something like notepad but if you make it open a corrupted file like a dangerous worm file it will.Īnd the file you name in the prompt has to be already installed on the computer or else it will not open, obviously.

Yes, this will work even if you do not have access to command prompt normally I know this because I used it on a school computer :D (.+), get everyting except the last, and store it in 1.+ Get everything, non greedy. Its content will be 1, 2, 3 in order of appearance.+ This selects everything greedy mode, until it finds the last comma. Shutdown -a or something, but there's no fun in that is there?Īgain to be clear this one will not stop until you end command prompt or simply shut off your PC. The regex explained: (.+).+ ( ) this is a capture group.

If you want to know why it is just this simple for such a annoying 'troll' or want to know how it works :a works just like :top would it sets the top line white goto a would make the execution repeat what ever comes after :a you could if you wanted make it shutdown by adding

Notepad++ regex loop