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NirCmd – a multipurpose Windows command line tool
- blueflow 11y agoA nice tool i played with back in school. Together with PStart we created an portable suite for "privilege extension" on our very restricted school environment. I do not really think it belongs on a news page in 2015.
- Nexxxeh 11y agoIt's useful (although the tools for extracting mail passwords and wifi keys see far more use from me). Nirsoft tools have saved me hours, especially SysExporter (iirc). I'm not seeing the "news" aspect though.
- chris_wot 11y agoHacker News isn't really about news, although that's a big part of it. Really, it should be called HackerJoy. The guidelines say: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. I hope this never changes.
- satori99 11y agoI use this on Windows to switch between my mobo soundcard (speakers) and a wireless USB headset without having to remove and re-insert the USB dongle. I just have two desktop shortcuts with speaker and headphone icons that call the Nircmd setdefaultsoundevice command. Very useful.
- GeorgeHahn 11y agoI used the same solution until I found Audio Switcher - https://github.com/davkean/audio-switcher https://github.com/davkean/audio-switcher. I prefer it because it sits in the tray where it's more accessible.
- satori99 11y agoCheers, that looks great. That's why I love this site :) Installing now ...
- coolnow 11y agoJust wanted to drop in and say Nirsoft are wizards and i've been using their tools for a decade now without any problems.
- maxerickson 11y agoIt's one guy: http://www.nirsoft.net/about_nirsoft_freeware.html http://www.nirsoft.net/about_nirsoft_freeware.html
- cbd1984 11y agoIs there some deep reason all of this functionality is jammed into one binary?
- sengork 11y agoThey are the "other" Sysinternals.
- chris_wot 11y agoCan't PowerShell do all of this?
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- user_235711 11y agoThis is a great tool. I use it for adjusting brightness/volume via cmd.exe on laptops (because I hate using sliders); taking screenshots and enacting delays in batch files; and also for creating macros using batch files. It is an excellent easy-to-install augmentation to cmd.exe since all it requires is the nircmd.exe file in a known location.