NirCmd 2.20

NirCmd 2.20NirCmd  offers an effective tool which helps you to do some useful tasks without displaying any user interface. By running NirCmd with simple command-line option, you can write and delete values and keys in the Registry, write values into INI file, dial to your internet account or connect to a VPN network, restart windows or shut down the computer, create shortcut to a file, change the created/modified date of a file, change your display settings, turn off your monitor, open the door of your CD-ROM drive, and more...

Major Features:

1. Open the door of J: CD-ROM drive
2. Close the door of Y: CD-ROM drive
3. Increase the system volume by 2000 units (out of 65535)
4. Decrease the system volume by 5000 units (out of 65535)
5. Set the volume to the highest value
6. Mute the system volume
7. Unmute the system volume
8. Switch the system volume between the mute and normal state.
9. Create a shortcut on your desktop that switch the system volume between the mute and normal state.  
10. Turn off the monitor
11. Start the default screen saver  
12. Put your computer in 'standby' mode  
13. log off the current user
14. Ask if you want to reboot, and if you answer 'Yes', reboot the computer.  
15. Turn off your computer
16. Turn off all computers specified in computers.txt !
17. Dial to "My Internet" connection
18. Disconnect the "My Internet" connection
19. Make your Internet Explorer windows 75% transparent ! (192 / 256)
20. Minimize all your Internet Explorer windows
21. Close all your Internet Explorer windows
22. Close all your Explorer windows (My Computer, folders, and so on)
23. Hide all your Internet Explorer windows
24. Show all your Internet Explorer windows (after you made them hidden with previous example) nircmd.exe win show class "IEFrame"
25. Center all top-level windows
26. Remove the title bar of My Computer window.
27. Return the title bar of My Computer window that we removed in the previous example.
28. Set the My Computer window to right-to-left order (For hebrew and arabic languages)  
29. Set all child windows of My Computer window to right-to-left order (For hebrew and arabic languages)
30. Create a shortcut on your desktop that closes all your Internet Explorer windows
31. Create a shortcut on your desktop that hides all your Internet Explorer windows  
32. Create a shortcut on your desktop that shows back all your Internet Explorer windows
33. Set the Windows Calculator as top-most window (above all other windows)
34. Set the Windows Calculator back to regular window (non top-most window)
35. Create a shortcut to Windows calculator under Start Menu->Programs->Calculators Calculator"
36. Hide the desktop window nircmd.exe win hide class progman
37. Show the desktop window (After hiding it in previous example)
38. Hide the start button on the system tray
39. Show the start button on the system tray  
40. Hide the clock on the system tray
41. Show the clock on the system tray
42. Kill (terminate) all instance of Internet Explorer processes
43. Create a shortcut on your desktop that opens the door of K: CDROM drive when you run it.
44. Create a shortcut to NirSoft Web site on your desktop
45. Add NirSoft Web site to your Favorities under Links folder.
46. Create a shortcut to NirSoft Web site on the desktop of all computers listed in computers.txt
47. Set the display mode to 800x600x24bit colors
48. Create a shortcut on the desktop that set the display mode to 800x600x24bit colors
49. Restart your Apache server (under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003)
50. Create a shortcut on your desktop that restarts the Apache server
51. Restart your IIS
52. Restart MySql
53. Open the desired Registry key/value in RegEdit
54. Open the Registry key that you copied to the clipboard in RegEdit.
55. Disable the screen saver
56. Enable the screen saver
57. Change the date/time of the specified filename (creation time and modified time)
58. Copy your desktop folder path to the clipboard
59. Copy your start menu folder path to the clipboard
60. Copy the content of info1.txt (simple text file) to the clipboard
61. Add the text content of clipboard to info1.txt
62. Clear the clipboard
63. Create all folders specified in "c:tempfolders.txt". The folder path names are separated by CRLF characters.
64. Install the specified .NET assembly in the global assembly cache (like gacutil)
65. Empty the recycle bin in all drives.
66. Answer 'Yes' to a standard Windows message-box.

Enhancements:

• New actions for clipboard command - loadclp and saveclp (load/save in Windows .clp format)
• New command: setprocessaffinity

Requirements:

• This utility can work in all 32-bit Windows operating systems: Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista.
• Some of NirCmd commands works only on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.