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.