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ResourcesExtract-extract resources from executables

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/resources_extract.html

ResourcesExtract is a small utility that scans dll/ocx/exe files and extract all resources (bitmaps, icons, cursors, AVI movies, HTML files, and more…) stored in them into the folder that you specify.
You can use ResourcesExtract in user interface mode, or alternatively, you can run ResourcesExtract in command-line mode without displaying any user interface.

Advanced RSS2Web Personal-publish aggregated rss to website

http://www.advancedrss2web.com/software.asp  

Advanced RSS2Web allows you to automatically publish aggregated news pages or articles on your website.

Live information feeds on your website can be used to get your website more targeted visitors, improve your search engine rankings and increase your website 'stickiness'.

Advanced RSS2Web main features:

    * Download newsfeeds in RSS and XML format;
    * Reformat them according to user-defined HTML templates;
    * Upload results to website via shared folder or ftp;
    * Work with freely available newsfeeds, articles and whitepapers;
    * Increase your website popularity, position in search engines and website traffic;
    * and more… 

LogPaper-print graph paper

http://logicnet.dk/LogPaper/

LogPaper can create and print paper for diagram drawing.
    * mm or inch or any other size grid
    * Linear, semi or double logarithmic grid with user defined number of decades
    * Optional page header
    * User defined print color

Microsoft Script Debugger

http://www.microsoft.com/

The Microsoft Script Debugger is a debugging environment that extends any Microsoft ActiveX® Scripting host application—for example, Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) or Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS).

Rhino JavaScript debugger-GUI debugging of javascript

http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/debugger.html  

The Rhino JavaScript debugger is a GUI that allows debugging of interpreted JavaScript scripts run in Rhino. Note that this debugger will not work with JavaScript scripts run in the mozilla browser since Rhino is not the engine used in such environments. 

Nipper-produce reports on network devices 

http://nipper.titania.co.uk/  

Welcome to the Nipper Open Source project web site. Nipper enables network administrators, security professionals and auditors to quickly produce reports on key network infrastructure devices.

The report can include a detailed security audit of the device settings or be a configuration report, the output is customisable. Nipper supports a wide variety of devices from different manufacturers such as Cisco, Nokia, Juniper, CheckPoint and Nortel.

FAVC-AVI->DVD Video Converter

http://favcfavc.googlepages.com/  

FAVC is a GUI that enables you to easily make DVDs from video files. It takes one, or more, video files and produces a dvd folder ready to be burned to a dvd disc that should play in any regular dvd player. FAVC uses several pieces of free software to accomplish its task

Allnotes-PIM notes organizer

http://allnotes.nl/  

Allnotes is a freeware notes organizer for Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
Can make secure notes, is easy-to-use and has a search capability.
Keeps all your notes together in one file. Can be stored on a small
usb-stick inclusive the application program without installation !!!!!
 

Hawkeye Font Browser

http://www.hawkeyetech.com/products/freeware.htm#hfb  

A font browser. Renders all TrueType fonts installed on your system in a large scrollable preview list. You can modify color, size, text, and font properties. Monospaced fonts can be indented in the preview list to stand out.

DbxConv – convert outlook express to std mbox

http://freenet-homepage.de/ukrebs/english/dbxconv.html  

This program will extract the messages from an Outlook Express (5.0 – 6.0) mailbox and convert it either to the standard mbox or the Outlook Express eml format. The advantage of saving your mail in mbox format is, that it's a plain text format, which can be read by many mail-clients. Converting to eml format is a convenient way to re-import the messages into Outlook Express. The handling of eml export is a little bit smarter than the one offered by Outlook Express itself. Outlook Express will overwrite messages with same sender and subject, while DbxConv enumerates the messages, so you can be sure none is lost due to conversion.

IETester-test website IE8 beta 1 IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage  

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.  

Keep Running-launch a program and ensure it stays running

http://jpelectron.com/readme/keeprun.asp  

Keep Running allows you to launch a program and ensure it stays running. This could be to restart a crashed application or prevent something from being closed accidentally. Useful in a kiosk, library, school, website demo, or web-based application such as a self-registration/signup type of environment. Alternatively, use Keep Running as a custom shell so an application such as Internet Explorer is the only available program and to automatically re-launch it or restart the machine if closed.

ServiceEx-run as service-relaunch if shut down

http://serviceex.com/  

ServiceEx is a freeware Windows application that allows a normal program to run as a Windows service. Currently it is command line only. A version with a GUI is forthcoming. In the meantime, configuration options are specified via an .ini file that must be created prior to running ServiceEx.

ServiceEx differs from Microsoft's srvany in that it monitors the program and relaunches it whenever it shuts down for any reason. If you do not wish to have this behavior, you can turn it off. A link to download it is provided below

SharpDevelop-IDE for C#.NET Framework

http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/articles/FeatureTour.aspx  

SharpDevelop is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for .NET Framework applications. It supports the development of applications written in C#, Visual Basic.NET and Boo. It is open source and written in C#. It provides all of the features required from a modern Windows IDE, such as code completion, project templates, an integrated debugger and a forms designer. It has good compatibility with Visual Studio Express and Visual Studio 2005 by using the same project and solution file format.

Here is a quick tour showing you the main features of SharpDevelop.

    * Creating Windows Applications
    * Visually Designing Forms
    * Code Completion
    * Code Generation
    * Refactoring
    * XML Comments
    * Code Navigation
    * Debugging
    * Converting Code between Languages
    * Unit Testing
    * Code Coverage
    * Editing XML
    * Targeting Different Frameworks
    * Creating Boo Applications

ARP Cache Watch monitors Windows ARP cache 

http://www.nsauditor.com/network_tools/arp_cache_monitoring.html 

ARP Cache Watch monitors Windows ARP cache and allows to send an ARP request to obtain the physical address that corresponds to the specified destination IP address. The ARP cache contains IP address / MAC address translations so that every time an IP packet are to be sent, the MAC address doesn't have to queried through a broadcast, instead it can use the cached address.

Caledos Automatic Wallpaper Changer

http://www.caledos.com/lab/Caledos/Caledos.aspx

Are you bored to have always the same wallpaper on your desktop?
Are you looking for a new exciting way to put images on it?
Well, make your computer desktop more dynamic, interactive, useful, and fun with Caledos Automatic Wallpaper Changer. It allows your desktop wallpaper to change automatically. It also lets you choose which images to display. Select the folders of images or images as well, to display as a slide show and set the display interval to change wallpaper every logon, few minutes, hours, or days. The simple intuitive interface is easily available from the system tray.

Caledos Automatic Wallpaper Changer works on Windows XP and Vista.

Don't you have XP or Vista? Well, If you have Windows 95, 98, NT4 or 2000 you can use a previous version for free!

Flexcrypt- encryption and decryption of your emails

http://www.flexcrypt.com/flexcryptfree.html

Flexcrypt is a small software application that enables encryption and decryption of your emails. The reason for encrypting is to ensure the integrity and privacy of your email. Flexcrypt is very easy to install and use. After installation, simply add the email addresses you wish to send and receive encrypted emails with.

For each address, you must make up a password. This password is the key used in order to decrypt the message, thus, you must inform the receiver of the encrypted email of your chosen password. Do this by phone or in person, NOT by un-encrypted email. This only has to be done once, after that, Flexcrypt will remember your password and encrypt/decrypt your messages automatically or as you choose.

PasteCopy.NET-Simple .NET Paste Copy Clipboard Utility

http://www.pastecopy.net/

small, simple clipboard utility, to help reduce the workload. I'm not sure where it's going, but I'll guess I just keep modifying it along the way.

Paste Copy is the very first application I've made in the programming language .NET, and I've only spent about 5 minutes to learn it, so don't expect to much, quite yet…

How to use Paste Copy

    * Download and save PasteCopy.exe
    * From the file menu, add at least one category
    * Now you copy some text using Ctrl+C or right mouse button
    * Select one of the categories you created in Paste Copy, and click "Add Clipboard to Selected Category"
    * Once you have added all phrases, you click on a phrase and it will be copied to the clipboard
    * Finally you paste the phrase somewhere, using Ctrl+V or right mouse-click
    * 
    * The number on the filemenu is the length of the selected phrase

To learn more about the author, goto my personal site sundrytools.com

Xstreme Task Interceptor 

http://www.xstreme.it/ita_down_taski.htm  

Task Interceptor performs a constant scan of the PC processes. An alarm message is displayed with Time and Name of New Task detection. 

X-Mouse Button Control – remap your mouse buttons

http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.ht_m 

X-Mouse Button Control is a windows application to remap your mouse buttons.
This software is designed and written for Microsoft Windows XP/2003 x64 Edition but I have also, from version 1.5, built a 32bit version.

You are able to provide an application specific mappings, which means one application can use the mouse differently from another. This is useful for games which do not inherently support the extended mouse buttons, because you can map keys to each button.

What's more, the list of functions available to map to is somewhat more comprehensive than the 32bit MS Intellimouse Software can handle, including things like:

    Copy/Cut/Paste
    Volume Up/Down/Mute
    Media Player control
    Send a custom keystroke sequence
    Launch you email (or any) application.
    Capture screen (or active window) image to clipboard.
    Click-Drag [Sticky Buttons].
    Vista support with some Vista only featurs such as 'Show Sidebar', 'Flip 3D' etc.

WinSock XP Fix-fix XP internet connectivity

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html

WinSock XP Fix offers a last resort if your Internet connectivity has been corrupted due to invalid or removed registry entries. It can often cure the problem of lost connections after the removal of Adware components or improper uninstall of firewall applications or other tools that modify the XP network and Winsock settings. If you encounter connection problems after removing network related software, Adware or after registry clean-up; and all other ways fail, then give WinSock XP Fix a try. It can create a registry backup of your current settings, so it is fairly safe to use. We actually tested it on a test machine that was having a Winsock problem due to some Adware removal, and after running the utility and rebooting, the connectivity was restored. 

Live View-mount disk images-physical drives in virtual machine

http://liveview.sourceforge.net/index.html  

Live View is a tool that allows disk images or physical drives to be booted up in a virtual machine and examined in a forensically sound manner.  Live View redirects all changes to a scratch file leaving the original image untouched. Live View works just fine on images set as read-only and will even alert the user if the image they are booting is not set as such. One can also run a cryptographic checksum on the image before and after booting with Live View to verify the integrity of the evidence. Live handles exact bit-for-bit (raw) images of disks such as those created with 'dd'. Live View is also capable of booting physical disks (not images) attached to the computer directly or via a USB or FireWire bridge. Other image formats (such as EnCase) are not directly supported, but can be booted as physical disks with the use of third party image mounting software such as Mount Image Pro  or Physical Disk Emulator. Images can also often be converted to standard bit-for-bit images. For example, the FTK Imager http://www.accessdata.com/support/  can convert Encase images into a standard DD image for use with Live View.

Mount That DD Image with VMWare -Now what if you want to mount one of the partitions to a drive and scan it with a virus scanner or some other tool? Well now you can, by using the 4 Perl scripts and executables I created. The zip file containing the Perl scripts and executables can be found here.

Prefetch information- parse a prefetch file for Information

http://cfed-ttf.blogspot.com/2008/02/prefetch-information.html  

Here is a quick and dirty program to parse a prefetch file and output some important information. It is only a command line program currently and does not use a database or scan the prefetch directory (I know I am slacking and that would be some good improvements to make and pretty easy). What it will do is parse the prefetch file giving you the standard information that other programs have given ie: embedded date, number of time run and executable name plus a list of directories and files that are/have been loaded. The program can be found here.  

Offline Folder/CSC directory-recovery

http://cfed-ttf.blogspot.com/2008/03/csc-parser-version-20.html

Offline Folder/CSC directory I thought I update the software. You can find version 2.0 here. It has changed in that it uses drop down menus now instead of buttons. When you try and recover files you have 2 choices using the 00000002 or the csc1.tmp file. Both options will now copy the files that can be recovered to a directory of your choosing. Remember that you must have a good copy of the 00000002 or the csc1.tmp file. To run the program just unzip into a directory and run the program csc_parser.exe. I have removed the source code this time but this program is still free for personal use, for commercial use please contact me about using this program.

Now for those users who have reinitialized there offline folder/csc then I also have a program that might work for you as it scans the CSC folder and trys and rebuilds what was there. This is the professional version of the csc_parser. This program can be purchased for $50.00 (button is on the side of the blog). This program will also have the above functionality in it as well.

Start++ create custom vista run command aliases

http://brandonlive.com/2007/02/22/new-tool-i-made-for-vista-start/  

configuration UI, which lets you create your own custom commands / aliases.

Like I said, this is kind of something I threw together, so it might still have some bugs, and I’ll probably add more to it when I get the time on weekends and such.  Anyway, let me know what you think.

I’ve decided to share a little tool that I wrote on a whim a week or two ago for Vista.  This is a personal project of mine, not related to MS in any way.

Users of WDS on XP may recall the “Deskbar Shortcuts” functionality that allows you to create little aliases between words or characters with commands and searches.  For example, you could set up the Deskbar so that you could type “g Stuff” to search for the work “Stuff” on Google.  You could also launch programs, run scripts with parameters, and more.

Windows Vista replaced the Deskbar with Instant Search built-in to the Start menu, which is totally awesome.  Unfortunately, it lacks all of that fun shortcut functionality that the Deskbar had.  Unless you have my tool, which for the time being I’m calling Start++.