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:

Not a terrific job in my view.

5 thoughts on “Nirsoft's free utilities

  1. 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

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