Random Monday : NirSoft.net – My First Stop for Quality Utilities
Since I’ve been using several of Nir Sofer’s (NirSoft) applications quite regularly both at work and at home, I hope that some of his utilities I list below will prove as useful to you as they are for me.
I recommend NirSoft’s applications for several reasons:
- Portable – copy and run directly from USB flashdrives as they do not require installation and do not write to the registry or your profile folder(s)
- Small downloads – usually < 50 KB
- Freeware – always a good thing
Below are 5 of his software that I use regularly. Most of these utilities have a built-in feature which allows HTML reports to be generated for the information displayed onscreen.
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I mainly use this for my network coding at work to monitor the status of opened ports. Also useful to check and terminate for rogue ports connected to suspicious addresses.
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Anyone who has attempted to work with the Find feature in RegEdit on a regular basis will find this utility a god-send. Searches and displays all registry keys matching your search keyword with much more options than the Regedit Find function in a fraction of the time.
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Dumps text from most listboxes, comboboxes and textboxes in any running application into HTML or CSV files. I usually use it to export the search results in Window Explorer.
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AddrView parses either a HTML file on disk or online and extracts the links which you can either click to download immediately or export to a HTML format for later use. My primary use for it is to export links to HTML and then importing and cataloguing my downloads in spreadsheets.
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Calculates the number of files and disk space used in the folder (and optionally subfolders) of your choice. Frankly speaking, there isn’t much occasion for using FoldersReport but I have some weird fascination with pointless statistics like these at times.
Other than the five applications showcased above, NirSoft also has an extensive selection of password recovery applications over the usual system, browser and network utilities.
Download NirSoft’s utilities. I recommend subscribing to the NirSoft RSS feed for information on new releases and updates to his existing applications.
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