NirCmd – a multipurpose Windows command line tool

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html?2

by networked • 11 years ago

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blueflow• 11 years ago

A 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• 11 years ago

It'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_wot2• 11 years ago

Hacker 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.

satori992• 11 years ago

I 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• 11 years ago

I used the same solution until I found Audio Switcher - https://github.com/davkean/audio-switcher. I prefer it because it sits in the tray where it's more accessible.

satori992• 11 years ago

Cheers, that looks great. That's why I love this site :) Installing now ...

coolnow• 11 years ago

Just wanted to drop in and say Nirsoft are wizards and i've been using their tools for a decade now without any problems.

maxerickson• 11 years ago

It's one guy:

http://www.nirsoft.net/about_nirsoft_freeware.html

cbd1984• 11 years ago

Is there some deep reason all of this functionality is jammed into one binary?

Hello71• 11 years ago

same reason why busybox exists

digi_owl• 11 years ago

Single file that can easily be moved around and stored just about anywhere?

sengork• 11 years ago

They are the "other" Sysinternals.

chris_wot2• 11 years ago

Can't PowerShell do all of this?

user_235711• 11 years ago

This 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.

NirCmd – a multipurpose Windows command line tool

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