Password Hacking Utilities

Submitted by: Brian The NirSoft web site provides a unique collection of small and useful freeware utilities. Password Recovery Utilities

• MessenPass - Recover the passwords of instant messenger programs: Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Trillian, and more...
• Mail PassView - Recover the passwords of popular email clients: Outlook Express, MS Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird , and more...
• Protected Storage PassView - Displays all passwords and AutoComplete strings stored in your Protected Storage.
• Dialupass: Dialup Password Recovery - Recovers the passwords of dialup entries (VPN and Internet connections). Works also under Windows 2000/XP.
• Asterisk Logger - Reveal the passwords hidden behind asterisk ('****') characters in standard password text-boxes.
• Network Password Recovery - Freeware utility that recovers the network passwords stored by Windows XP.

Network Monitoring Tools

• 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...

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.
• 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.

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

• Volumouse - Control the sound volume with your wheel mouse !!
• MyUninstaller - Alternative to the standard Add/Remove applet of Windows operating system.
• NirExt - Change the icon of any folder in your file system, Easily create shortcuts on your start-menu/desktop.

Freeware System Tools

• WinUpdatesList - Displays the list of all Windows updates (Service Packs and Hotfixes) installed on your local computer.
• ShellExView - Displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension.
• 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.
• MMCompView - Displays the details of all installed multimedia components (Codec, ActiveX filters) and allows you disable/enable specific components.
• ActiveXHelper - View essential information about ActiveX components installed on your computer, and allows you to disable/enable specific ActiveX components.
• RegScanner (Registry Scanner) - Scan and find values in the Registry.
• OfficeIns - Microsoft Office Add-Ins Manager
• ProduKey - Recover Office/Windows CD-Key