Useful collection of task oriented utilities

NirSoft has an interesting collection of task oriented utilities. Below is a list of them.

• Password Recovery Utilities
  • WebBrowserPassView - View the passwords stored by your Web browser (Supports Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera)
  • Mail PassView - Recover the passwords of popular email clients: Outlook Express, MS Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird , and more...
  • MessenPass - Recover the passwords of instant messenger programs: Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Trillian, and more...
  • Dialupass: Dialup Password Recovery - Recovers the passwords of dialup entries (VPN and Internet connections). Works also under Windows 2000/XP.
  • Network Password Recovery - Freeware utility that recovers the network passwords stored by Windows XP (Credentials file).
  • BulletsPassView - Reveal the passwords hidden behind asterisk ('****') or bullets characters in standard password text-boxes.
  • SniffPass - Password Sniffer - Listen to your network, and capture POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP (basic authentication) passwords
  • PstPassword - Recover the password of Outlook PST file.
• Network Monitoring Tools
  • WirelessNetView - View the details of all wireless network in your area (SSID, Signal Quality, MAC Address, and more...)
  • Wireless Network Watcher - Show who is connected to your wireless network.
  • BluetoothView - Monitor the Bluetooth activity around you.
  • 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.
  • CurrPorts: TCP/IP Connections Viewer - Freeware tool that displays the list of all currently opened TCP and UDP ports on your local computer.
  • 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...
  • DownTester - Test the download speed of your Internet connection.
• Internet Related Utilities
  • 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.
  • MyLastSearch - View your latest searches with Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
  • VideoCacheView - Copy video files (.flv and others) from the Web browser cache and temporary folder.
  • WebVideoCap - Capture Flash video (.flv) and RTSP/MMS streams from Video Web sites.
  • SiteShoter - Take a screenshot of a Web site.
  • DNSDataView - View the DNS records of specified domains.
  • IECookiesView: Cookies Viewer/Manager for IE - View/Delete/Modify the cookies that Internet Explorer stores on your computer. Read More >>
  • IEHistoryView - View/Delete the URLs that you visited in the last few days.
  • HTMLAsText (HTML To Text Converter) - Freeware utility that converts HTML files to text files.
  • WhoisThisDomain - Get information about a registered domain.
  • DNSDataView - DNS lookup tool.
• MS-Outlook Tools
  • NK2Edit - Edit, delete, add, merge, and repair records in the AutoComplete files (.NK2) of Outlook.
  • OutlookAttachView - View and extract attachments in your Outlook mailbox.
  • OutlookStatView - Get statistics about your Outlook mailbox.
  • OutlookAddressBookView - View / export the address book of MS-Outlook.
• Command-Line Utilities
  • 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
  • SearchMyFiles - Alternative to 'Search For Files And Folders' module of Windows and also duplicate files search.
  • MyUninstaller - Alternative to the standard Add/Remove applet of Windows operating system.
  • Volumouse - Control the sound volume with your wheel mouse !!
  • FileTypesMan - Alternative to 'File Types' manager of Windows.
• Freeware System Tools
  • ProduKey - Recover Office/Windows CD-Key
  • ShellExView - Displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension.
  • WhatInStartup - Add, delete, modify or disable programs that run at Windows startup.
  • USBDeview - View all installed/connected USB devices on your system.
  • DevManView - Alternative to device manager of Windows.
  • DriverView - List all device drivers currently loaded on your Windows.
  • RegScanner (Registry Scanner) - Scan and find values in the Registry.
  • OpenedFilesView - View opened/locked files in your system.
  • 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.
  • BlueScreenView - View crash information stored in the MiniDump files created on blue screen of Windows.