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Process Hacker v2.39

webfork on 5 Feb 2021

Process Hacker is a feature-packed tool for manipulating processes and services on your computer. Includes a simple, customized tree view, detailed performance graphs, list of network connections, comprehensive process list (including hidden), full control over processes, rootkit termination, and DLL controls.

Alternatively, Process Hacker Portable is stealth.

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Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Settings location is specified by passing the -settings parameter to Process Hacker, together with the full path to the settings file.
Stealth: ? No. To make stealth:
  1. Delete/rename kprocesshacker.sys before launch or start the program with -nokph argument. Note that this will disable some advanced features
  2. Delete/rename plugins\UserNotes.dll before launch. The UserNotes plugin saves its settings in %APPDATA%\Process Hacker 2\usernotesdb.xml
  3. Although there is no automatic update checker, avoid this option in the Help menu as it will leave a trace in the Internet Explorer browser cache
License: GPLv3
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create an empty text file named ProcessHacker.exe.settings.xml in the x86 subfolder for 32-bit or x64 for 64-bit
  3. Launch ProcessHacker.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Process Explorer
What's new?
Latest comments
SYSTEM on 2016-02-03 07:48

I added a link to Process Hacker Portable.

misan on 2016-02-04 20:15

Thank you.
It's a great app, I personally prefer it over Process Explorer.

Midas on 2021-03-02 09:39

Process Hacker is still being updated through so-called nightly builds: see forum topic or https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/nightly.php.

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Opera (Presto) v12.18

webfork on 16 Feb 2020
  • 26MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Feb 2016
  • Suggested by Chris Mehl

Version note: This program has not been updated since 2016 and may contain security vulnerabilities. Please see this entry for the latest version of Opera.

Opera (Presto) is a discontinued version of the Opera web browser, meaning feature development and maintenance for this version of Opera has ceased. Compared to the newer version based on Google Chrome, it features a leaner memory footprint, more user-interface customization, an RSS reader, integrated e-mail client, IRC chat, and native BitTorrent support. A variety of extensions are available to further extend functionality.

Alternative Portable versions:

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Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. HKCU\Software\Opera Software
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download and run the installer
  2. Select Options and, from the Install menu, choose Stand-alone installation (USB)
  3. Set the Install path to a folder of your choice and click Accept & Install
  4. opera.exe will auto-launch after install
Similar/alternative apps: SeaMonkey Portable, Firefox Portable, Chromium Portable, Google Chrome Portable
What's new? See:
http://www.opera.com/blogs/security/2016/02/opera-12-and-opera-mail-security-update/
Latest comments
billon on 2016-02-15 18:59

UPDATED TO 12.18!!!11
no changelog yet on off. page

Specular on 2016-02-16 07:31

@billon mmm, it's odd. Just had a pop-up informing of a new version to download which is apparently v12.18 yet no official changelog has been released.

However did find an old My Opera stalwart who posted some of the changes over on the Vivaldi forums. Will continue this discussion on the PF thread...

Checker on 2016-02-26 18:15

Opera@USB v12.18 is available.

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RegDllView v1.60

Checker on 9 Dec 2015
  • 72KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Dec 2015
  • Suggested by JohnW

RegDllView displays the list of all registered dll/ocx/exe files (COM registration). For each registered file, you can view the last date/time that it was registered, and the list of all registration entries (CLSID/ProgID).

The program also allows you to unregister dll/ocx files that you don't need on your system anymore. If you have dll/ocx files that don't exist on your system anymore but their registration entries still exist in the Registry, you can manually remove these entries by using 'Delete All Entries For Selected Files' option.

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Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RegDllView.exe.
What's new?
  • Added 'File Extension' column.
Latest comments
PortaFreeUser on 2011-05-08 02:46

The programmer that made this program makes really reliable programs. I have about 10 different programs from NirSoft and they are each very useful and stable.

I'm eager to try this program to see if it can be used to unregister some mysterious DirectX plugins that show up in my music programs and possibly crash Reaper.

outskirter on 2013-02-18 00:14

Another excellent tool by NirSoft. I just used this utility to search for and destroy lots of junk left in the registry by McAfee ever since I uninstalled their software a couple of years back. It had been preinstalled on my netbook, and I hadn't bothered to clean up after it. Doing that manually would have been very time consuming.

MIKLO on 2013-08-03 13:00

Yep NirSoft does it again,another example of useful and stable software thanks NirSoft.
MIKLO

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WinLister v1.22

billon on 20 Nov 2016
  • 48KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Oct 2015
  • Suggested by dasfx

WinLister displays the list of opened windows on your system, provides data, and some optional controls. These include hide, show, close or set always-on-top mode, or save the windows list to text or HTML file. Window list information includes title, the handle of window, location, size, class name, process number, the name of the program that created the window, and more.

Great for managing a large number of windows or for UI/software developers.

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Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: If you want to run this utility on Windows NT, you should download the 'psapi.dll' and place it in your system32 directory.
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch winlister.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: GUIPropView
What's new?
  • WinLister now displays the process names (Some of them without the full path) for most processes when you run it without elevation ('Run As Administrator').

Office Image Extraction Wizard v4.1

Midas on 4 Dec 2019
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Mar 2015
  • Suggested by mmx64

Office Image Extraction Wizard allows you to easily extract images from many productivity programs and ebook formats, saving them as normal picture files on your hard drive. Images are extracted in their original format without additional processing or re-compression.

Supports MS Office, LibreOffice/OpenOffice, Apple iWorks, Flash, ePub, CHM and more.

Functional in 64-bit.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application Folder
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Office Image Extraction Wizard.exe.
What's new? Full changelog at https://www.rlvision.com/officewiz/about.php.
Latest comments
webfork on 2016-10-21 21:27

I recently had a lot of trouble getting other tools to output to images and this saved me. Although I came close with using LibreOffice to export to HTML, Office Extractor caught an additional image that was embedded in the Word file header.

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ShellMenuNew v1.02

Checker on 9 Aug 2015
  • 59KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Jul 2013
  • Suggested by guinness

ShellMenuNew is a small utility that displays the list of all menu items in the 'New' submenu of Windows Explorer. It allows you to easily disable unwanted menu items, so this 'New' submenu will display only the items that you need.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ShellMenuNew.exe.
What's new?
  • Fixed bug: If ShellMenuNew disabled a menu item, and then another software created this menu item again, ShellMenuNew displayed this menu item as disabled while it was actually active.
Latest comments
mindstalker on 2010-01-22 17:08

I just went and deleted almost all of the "new - " stuff in the context menu that I never used. thanks NirSoft!

smaragdus on 2015-08-09 02:39

The latest version of ShellMenuNew is 1.02.

Checker on 2015-08-09 03:34

@ smaragdus: Thanks ... and updated ;)

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Calculatormatik v1.15.260

lintalist on 1 Aug 2023
  • 252KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Feb 2015
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Calculatormatik is a math tool that includes a broad variety of calculators and converters from common to unusual. Some examples include angle converter, area calculator/converter, binary to number, body mass index, body Surface area, numbers to Roman, numbers to string, Ohm's Law, volume/weight, water consumption, and many more.

Other tools include a random password generator, hex-to-ascii converter, and a stopwatch.

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Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: None
Dependencies: MSVBVM60.DLL
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Calculatormatik.exe.
What's new?
  • Curtain Pleat Calculator added.
  • Line of Sight Calculator added.
  • dBm to Watts added to Electrical Calculators.
  • Minor additions.
  • Minor fixes.
  • Minor changes.
Latest comments
lintalist on 2023-08-01 14:02

Updated links to web archive.
Orginal website was https://sites.google.com/site/cakirbey/calculatormatik
(if it comes back we can change it again)

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InstalledDriversList v1.05

Checker on 25 Sep 2015
  • 113KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Feb 2015
  • Suggested by Checker

InstalledDriversList lists all device drivers that are currently installed on your system. For every device driver, the following information is displayed: Driver Name, Display Name, Description, Startup Type, Driver Type, Driver Group, Filename, File Size, Modified/Created Time of the driver file, and version information of the driver file.

If the driver is currently running on Windows kernel, the following information is also displayed: Base Memory Address, End Address, Memory Size, and Load Count.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch InstalledDriversList.exe.
What's new?
  • Added 'Open In RegEdit' option, which opens the Registry key of the driver in RegEdit.
Latest comments
Farkus on 2014-04-09 23:43

Pretty app but it has no meaningful utility. Double Driver is the bees knees, http://double-driver.en.softonic.com

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WhatIsHang v1.27

Checker on 26 Sep 2015
  • 116KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Feb 2015
  • Suggested by guinness

WhatIsHang tries to detect software that is currently frozen or hanging, displaying information that can help explain what caused the issue. The program displays a list of related strings and DLL files, useful for developers as well as non-programmers to help find workarounds by helping determine the cause.

More developer-specific information includes Call Stack, Stack Data, Processor Registers, and Memory Data.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WhatIsHang.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: BlueScreenView
What's new?
  • Fixed bug: The 'Automatically Get Report' menu item failed to work properly.
Latest comments
abc on 2012-09-27 04:03

helped me identify what plugin was making foobar2000 crash -- very useful.

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BlueScreenView v1.55

billon on 16 May 2018
  • 95KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Jan 2015
  • Suggested by guinness

BlueScreenView 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).

This program is useful for both developers and non-programmers to determine both the cause and possible workarounds for major crashes.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch BlueScreenView.exe.
What's new?
  • Added Drag & Drop support: You can now drag a single MiniDump file from Explorer into the main window of BlueScreenView.
  • Fixed bug: BlueScreenView failed to remember the last size/position of the main window if it was not located in the primary monitor.
Latest comments
Mark on 2010-08-17 14:24

Great tool, and a utility that Windows Admin Tools should have by default. Disabling automatic restart and writing down error codes is one thing, but this is so useful when helpful other users who often fail to record the correct information -- and saves them doing so when installed. Two thumbs up.

webfork on 2012-07-24 18:45

Saw this tool getting used recently by high-level tech support folks. Definitely an important tool for Windows diagnosis.

webfork on 2013-03-30 02:24

Finally had a real need for this -- helped me track down a program that was misbehaving and causing a whole-system crash. Saved a whole lot of time when dealing with support. Wonderful.

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