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WirelessNetView, a utility that show all wireless networks currently detected by your wireless adapter, now provide a ‘Very High’ update rate.

This feature can be useful if you move with your laptop from one location to another (by foot or with a vehicle) and you want to locate any wireless network in your path.  It can also be useful if you have a wireless adapter plugged to a USB cable and you want to put it in a location with the best signal quality.

WirelessNetView now also allows you to save the current detected networks list into text/html/xml/csv file, by using the right command-line options, and without displaying any user interface.

The new version of WirelessNetView is available here.

The new version of BlueScreenView, version 1.05, now also support the MiniDump Files created by x64 version of Windows.
The executable file of BlueScreenView is still created as 32-bit application, but it can read and analyze the crash MiniDump Files of both both 32-bit and x64 systems.

Many people ask me if there is any package with all NirSoft utilities and a launcher application to easily find and run the desired utility.
So now there is something in development:
NirLauncher (The name might be changed later) is a utility that will be packed with dozens of NirSoft utilities and will display them in the main window, separated by different categories, like ‘Password Recovery Tools’, ‘Network Tools’, ‘Web Browser Tools’, and so on.

It’ll allow you to easy run a utility, run the utility with command-line parameters, open the help file, browser into the Web page of the utility, and so on.
It’s also possible that NirLauncher will allow other developers to provide their utilities as additional package for NirLauncher.

I hope that the first Beta of NirSoft Launcher will be available to download in the incoming weeks.
For now, you can enjoy the first screenshots of NirLauncher:

WinFontsView is a new utility that enumerates all fonts installed on your system, and displays them in one simple table.
For each font, WinFontsView draws 5 samples of the font in different sizes, in order to allow you to easily find and choose the desired font that you need. WinFontsView also allows you to view the fonts as Bold, as Italic or with underline, as well as it allows you to export the fonts list into html file.

For more infromation about WinFontsView, click here.

WinFontsView Screenshot

BlueScreenView is a new utility that allows you to watch the details of all ‘Blue Screen of Death’ crashes that occurred in your system.

It automatically scans all your minidump files created during ‘blue screen of death’ crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table. For each crash, BlueScreenView displays the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename, product name, file description, and file version).
BlueScreenView also displays the list of all drivers loaded during the crash, as well as it allows you to view a blue screen window which is very similar to the one that Windows displayed during the crash.

For more information about this utility, go to BlueScreenView Web page.

MetarWeather utility has a new feature that allows you to watch the latest METAR weather reports from Google Earth map.
In order to use this feature, simply selected the desired METAR report lines, go to ‘Save Selected Items’ (Ctrl+S), choose the KML in the file type combo-box, and save the file. After that, you can open the saved .kml file in Google Earth, and watch the METAR reports on earth map.

Here’s a sample result of METAR reports in Google Earth:

LiveContactsView is a new utility that allows you to easily view all your contacts stored by
Windows Live messenger, inside the contacts.edb database.
Like in all NirSoft utilities, you can select the desired contacts and export them into text,csv,html, and xml file, or you can copy them to the clipboard and paste into a spreadsheet application.

LiveContactsView is available to download from here.

WhatInStartup utility now allows you to add new applications into the list of programs that are executed at Windows startup. You can add your new startup item into the Registry or into the startup folder of Windows.

In order to use this feature, simply select “New Startup Item” from the File menu, or press Ctrl+N, and then choose the desired item type, fill the ‘Item Name’ and ‘Process Path’ fields, and click the ‘Ok’ button.

In addition to this feature WhatInStartup now also has 3 new columns in the main window: ‘File Created Time’, ‘File Modified Time’, and ‘File Attributes’.

MACAddressView is a new utility that allows you to easily find the company details (company name, address, and country) according to the MAC address of a product.
It also allows you to find MAC address records according to the company name, company address, or country name.
MACAddressView doesn’t send any request to a remote server, it simply uses the internal MAC addresses database stored inside the .exe file.

You can read more about MACAddressView and download it from here.

The new version of WhoisThisDomain utility (v1.40) displays 3 new columns: ‘Expires On’, ‘Created On’, and ‘Last Updated On’. These columns are automatically filled for .com and .net domains registered with major Registrar, like GoDaddy and Network Solutions.
Unfortunately, there is no standard for displaying the expire/created dates in the WHOIS response, and each WHOIS server send these dates in different format, so I cannot insure that this feature will work for every WHOIS request.

Also, there are many WHOIS servers that don’t provide the expire/created datea at all, so in this case, WhoisThisDomain will never be able to display them.