Archive for the ‘Utilities Update’ Category

JumpListsView is a new utility that displays the information stored by the ‘Jump Lists’ feature of Windows 7 and Windows 8. For every record found in the Jump Lists, the following information is displayed: The filename that the user opened, the date/time of the file opening event, the ID of the application that was used to open the file, the size/time/attributes of the file on the time that the file was opened, and more…

JumpListsView

JumpListsView

 

You can download this new utility from this Web page.

 

NetworkInterfacesView is a new utility for Windows that displays the list of all network adapters/interfaces installed on your system. It displays network interfaces that are currently active, as well as network interfaces that have been installed previously, and now they are not connected (like USB wireless network adapters).
For every network interface found on your system, the following information is displayed (if it’s stored in the Registry): Device Name, Connection Name, IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, DHCP Server, Status, MAC Address and more…
You can select one or more network interface items and then export them to xml/html/csv/tab-delimited file, or copy them into the clipboard and then paste them into Excel or other spreadsheet application.

NetworkInterfacesView

NetworkInterfacesView

You can download NetworkInterfacesView from this Web page.

 

ESEDatabaseView is a new utility that reads and displays the data stored inside Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) database (Also known as ‘Jet Blue’ or .edb file). It displays a list of all tables available in the opened database file, allows you to choose the desired table to view, and then when you choose a table, it displays all records found in the selected table. ESEDatabaseView also allows you to easily choose one or more records, and then export them into comma-delimited/tab-delimited/html/xml file, or copy the records to the clipboard (Ctrl+C) and then paste them into Excel or other spreadsheet application.

Be aware that currently ESEDatabaseView is somewhat a Beta version and thus it might fail to read field values with complex data structure.

ESEDatabaseView is available to download from this Web page.

ESEDatabaseView

ESEDatabaseView

A few utilities of NirSoft, including CurrPorts, SmartSniff, NetworkTrafficView, and CountryTraceRoute (which has been released just a few weeks ago) now supports the free IP geolocation database of MaxMind, in addition to the support of software77.net IP to country database.

The database of MaxMind is larger than the database of software77.net, and for some of the IP addresses, city information is also provided.

In order to start using the MaxMind database with the NirSoft utilities specified above, simply go to this Web page, download the GeoLite City database in binary/gzip format (The filename is GeoLiteCity.dat.gz), and then put this file in the same folder where the .exe files of NirSoft utilities are located.
When you run a utility that supports this database, it automatically loads the database and uses it to display the country/city information for every IP address.

CurrPorts with the GeoLite City database

CurrPorts with the GeoLite City database

LastActivityView is a new utility for Windows operating system that collects information from various sources on a running system, and displays a log of actions made by the user and events occurred on this computer. The activity displayed by LastActivityView includes: Running .exe file, Opening open/save dialog-box, Opening file/folder from Explorer or other software, software installation, system shutdown/start, application or system crash, network connection/disconnection and more…

LastActivityView

LastActivityView

You can download this new utility from this Web page.

WinsockServicesView is a new  utility that displays the details of all Winsock service providers installed on your system. For every Winsock service, the following information is displayed: Display Name, Status (Enabled/Disabled), DLL Type (32-bit or 64-bit), DLL Filename, DLL Description/Version, and Created/Modified Time.
WinsockServicesView also allows you to easily disable/enable a Winsock service provider.

WinsockServicesView

WinsockServicesView

For more information about this new utility, click here.

WifiInfoView is a new utility for Windows 7/Vista/2008/8 that scans the wireless networks in your area and displays extensive information about them, including: Network Name (SSID), MAC Address, PHY Type (802.11g or 802.11n), RSSI, Signal Quality, Frequency, Channel Number, Maximum Speed, Company Name, Router Model and Router Name (Only for routers that provides this information), and more…

When you select a wireless network in the upper pane of this tool, the lower pane displays the Wi-Fi information elements received from this device, in hexadecimal format.

WifiInfoView

WifiInfoView

WifiInfoView also has a summary mode, which displays a summary of all detected wireless networks, grouped by channel number, company that manufactured the router, PHY type, or the maximum speed.
For example, in the screenshot below, you can see that there are 25 wireless networks that use channel 6, 10 wireless networks that use channel 10, and so on….

Wi-Fi Channels Summary

Wi-Fi Channels Summary

You can download this new tool from the bottom of this Web page.

BrowsingHistoryView is a new utility that reads the history data of 4 different Web browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari) and displays the browsing history of all these Web browsers in one table.
The browsing history table includes the following information: Visited URL, Title, Visit Time, Visit Count, Web browser and User Profile. BrowsingHistoryView allows you to watch the browsing history of all user profiles in a running system, as well as to get the browsing history from external hard drive.
You can also export the browsing history into csv/tab-delimited/html/xml file from the user interface, or from command-line, without displaying any user interface.

You can download this new utility from this Web page.

BrowsingHistoryView

BrowsingHistoryView

MultiMonitorTool is a new tool that allows you to do some actions related to working with multiple monitors. With MultiMonitorTool, you can disable/enable monitors, set the primary monitor, save and load the configuration of all monitors, and move windows from one monitor to another. You can do these actions from the user interface or from command-line, without displaying user interface. MultiMonitorTool also provides a preview window, which allows you to watch a preview of every monitor on your system.

MultiMonitorTool

MultiMonitorTool

You can download this new tool from this Web page.

FolderChangesView is a new tool that monitors the folder or disk drive that you choose and lists every filename that is being modified, created, or deleted while the folder is being monitored.
You can use FolderChangesView with any local disk drive or with a remote network share, as long as you have read permission to the selected folder.

FolderChangesView works on any version of Windows, starting from Windows 2000 and up to Windows 8, and both 32-bit and 64-bit systems are supported.

FolderChangesView

FolderChangesView

You can download this new utility from this Web page.