If you ask Windows system administrators about their favorite non commercial software publishers the names Nirsoft and Sysinternals will be mentioned without doubt lots of times. Both produce high quality software that can be useful in many occasions.
Windows System Control Center is a frontend for Nirsoft and Sysinternals software programs. The portable software displays the [...]
Windows System Control Center
Extract Resources From Files
ResourcesExtract is a portable Nirsoft application that can automatically scan a directory for resources in files and extract them to a specified destination directory. Unlike the previously covered Icons Extract which can extract icons from files ResourcesExtract can extract a wider range of resources from files.
ResourcesExtract scans all dll, exe, ocx and cpl file for [...]
View Saved Windows Explorer Folder Settings
Windows Explorer can remember custom folder settings for each folder on the computer system. Those saved settings include the display mode, the window position, the last modified date and the last size of the Window.
The folder settings are stored in the Windows Registry and ShellBagsView from Nirsoft provides the means of displaying all of [...]
Display Information About Computer Monitors
It’s sometimes important to know when specific computer monitors have been manufactured because they, like every other computer components, are revised from time to time which may improve monitor quality.
Monitor Info View is a Nirsoft application that can display information about flat screen monitors or crt monitors. The software is portable and can be [...]
Display a list of Web Searches done on a computer
My Last Search is a Nirsoft application that scans the computer for information about searches that have been done in the two popular browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox. This is done by scanning Internet caches and history files of the two browsers for specific search engine queries and displaying those queries in tables.
The software worked [...]
Monitor Software Registry Changes
The Windows Registry is a book with seven seals for many users. Many know that one can change Registry settings to apply tweaks or change system settings in Windows but most do not know what their applications are writing in the Registry. Not all applications make use of the Registry, especially portable applications do not [...]
View All Registered URL Protocols
You might have heard of URLs before when someone referred to an Internet address as an URL. URL Protocols are for example http, mailto or ftp and they have to be registered on the system to be of any use. Each URL protocol is registered to a specific application that handles that type, the mailto [...]

