Nirsoft’s free utilities
I came across this site when I wanted a web site screen shot utility.
Here’s what else Nirsoft has.
* Password Recovery Utilities
o MessenPass - Recover the passwords of instant messenger programs: Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Trillian, and more…
o Mail PassView - Recover the passwords of popular email clients: Outlook Express, MS Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird , and more…
o Protected Storage PassView - Displays all passwords and AutoComplete strings stored in your Protected Storage.
o Dialupass: Dialup Password Recovery - Recovers the passwords of dialup entries (VPN and Internet connections). Works also under Windows 2000/XP.
o Asterisk Logger - Reveal the passwords hidden behind asterisk (’****’) characters in standard password text-boxes.
o SniffPass - Password Sniffer - Listen to your network, and capture POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP (basic authentication) passwords
o Network Password Recovery - Freeware utility that recovers the network passwords stored by Windows XP.
o PstPassword - Recover the password of Outlook PST file.
* Network Monitoring Tools
o SmartSniff: TCP/IP Sniffer - Capture TCP/IP packets on your network adapter and view the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers.
o CurrPorts: TCP/IP Connections Viewer - Freeware tool that displays the list of all currently opened TCP and UDP ports on your local computer.
o AdapterWatch - displays useful information about your network adapters: IP addresses, Hardware address, WINS servers, DNS servers, MTU value, Number of bytes received or sent, The current transfer speed, and more…
* Internet Related Utilities
o IPNetInfo - Find all available information about an IP address: The owner of the IP address, the country/state name, IP addresses range, contact information (address, phone, fax, and email), and more.
o IECookiesView: Cookies Viewer/Manager for IE - View/Delete/Modify the cookies that Internet Explorer stores on your computer.
o IEHistoryView - View/Delete the URLs that you visited in the last few days.
o HTMLAsText (HTML To Text Converter) - Freeware utility that converts HTML files to text files.
o WhoisThisDomain - Get information about a registered domain.
o SiteShoter - Take a screenshot of a Web site.
o WebVideoCap - Capture Flash video (.flv) and RTSP/MMS streams from Video Web sites.
* Command-Line Utilities
o NirCmd: Freeware Command-Line Tool - Do some useful tasks from command-line: turn off your monitor, turn off the computer, open/close the door of your cd-rom drive, dial to VPN/Internet connection, change your display settings, and much more !!
* Desktop Utilities
o Volumouse - Control the sound volume with your wheel mouse !!
o MyUninstaller - Alternative to the standard Add/Remove applet of Windows operating system.
o NirExt - Change the icon of any folder in your file system, Easily create shortcuts on your start-menu/desktop.
* Freeware System Tools
o ProduKey - Recover Office/Windows CD-Key
o RegScanner (Registry Scanner) - Scan and find values in the Registry.
o ShellExView - Displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension.
o SysExporter - Grab the data stored in standard list-views, list boxes, and combo boxes from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file.
o OpenedFilesView - View opened/locked files in your system.
o ActiveXHelper - View essential information about ActiveX components installed on your computer, and allows you to disable/enable specific ActiveX components.
o OfficeIns - Microsoft Office Add-Ins Manager
o WinUpdatesList - Displays the list of all Windows updates (Service Packs and Hotfixes) installed on your local computer.
Here is what SiteShoter can do:

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May 24th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Some of the utilities sound interesting and possibly useful, although I’ve already found free utilities for some of the functions mentioned such as registry checking/repair and video capture (UltraGet video downloader; works well with utube).
I’m wondering if the screenshot utility offers any advantage over a windows screenshot (Cntrl + Print Scrn or Fn + Print Scrn for full screen, Cntrl + Alt + Print Scrn for active window only).
That works for me; after capture I usually edit/crop in photoshop.
Regards, Liam
May 30th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Nirsoft’s offers a lot of free and cool utilities. Somewhere I lost the url and forgot the name of it! So thanx for reminding me of it!
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:08 am
Hi,
That website is wonderful, everything you need. Thanks for publishing!
Have a good day!
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