Computer Tricks and Secrets

Short answer: you can make your screen fill with the green Matrix falling-code effect using a four-line Windows batch file, no software needed. Paste the code into Notepad, save it as a .bat, and run it. Here is the code, how it works, ways to customize it, and how to stop it, all completely harmless. The Matrix batch code Open Notepad . Paste this exactly: @echo off color 02 :tricks echo %random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random% goto tricks Save it as Matrix.bat (choose "All files" as the type so it does not save as .txt). Double-click the file. Your command window fills with scrolling green numbers. How it works @echo off hides the command prompt text so only the output shows. color 02 sets the window to black background, green text, the Matrix look. :tricks is a label, and goto tricks loops back to it forever. echo %random%... prints random numbers each loop, creating the falling stream. Customize it Change How Different col...