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Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by tclancy » Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 6:59 PM UTC

45h34jh53k4j wrote: post #3

The NirSoft tools for windows are great! I have used various ones for years -- the SysExporter tool has saved many many hours of time. This lets you export Windows widget labels, so if a dialog has no export, it lets you generate a CSV of the string values. Nir Sofer -- publish a Bitcoin address and ill send you something as a thank you!

Same here, there are a bunch that make managing a Windows box for development so much easier. Essentially they provide a GUI to whatever mix of registry and binary files that control something normally configured by a text file on other OSes.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by acqq » Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 7:02 PM UTC

Even if you are familiar with his utilities, note that there are many new ones, as of April 2018:

https://blog.nirsoft.net/2018/04/04/result-of-nirsoft-easter...

Also note the comment of "newusertoday" here.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by kaminskypavel » Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 7:03 PM UTC

A freeware legend!

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by banderman » Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 7:18 PM UTC

Big fan of BlueScreenView and WiFiInfoView! Thanks for all the great products.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by roddds » Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

robochat wrote: post #9

I use the nirSoft CSVFileView utility all of the time. The near instantaneous load time is how computing should be.

Nir's utilities and Mark Russinovich's PSTools are usually the first thing I download on a fresh Windows box.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by kiddico » Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 7:24 PM UTC

Oh cool! He makes produkey. I've been using that for years, haven't had much use for it as of late with windows using uefi to store keys. Looks like he updated it since last I checked to support windows 10, but only for certain license types.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by keeganjw » Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 7:30 PM UTC

I've been using ShellExView to get rid of annoying, useless context menus for years. Great stuff!

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by maxxxxx » Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 7:30 PM UTC

Nirsoft and Sysinternals should be part of Windows. Add Notepad++ and you have a decent OS all of a sudden.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by aidos » Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 7:37 PM UTC

stevekemp wrote: post #6

reificator wrote: post #2

I've seen and used nirsoft products for years, never realized his name was Nir Sofer. What a great name for a software developer.

Almost as good as Mike Rowe .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft

Haha. Never heard about that case.

>>> A settlement was eventually reached, with Rowe granting ownership of the domain to Microsoft in exchange for an Xbox and additional compensation.

Re: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

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Post by snarfy » Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 7:44 PM UTC

> Each time that a popular AntiVirus software begins to detect one of my utilities as Virus or Trojan, my email is flooded with messages from worried people that think my Web site is infected with Viruses. Some of them even blame me that I spread Viruses through my Web site.

I wonder if there is a defamation/libel type of lawsuit here. Anti virus vendors are making false accusations.