nirsoft_installer 1.35 has been released (10-Jun-10)
Submitted by ross on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 08:36
nirsoft_installer is an NSIS installer I whipped up to download and install most of the wonderful utilities found at http://nirsoft.net.
You can download the binary here and the binary with the source code here. Here's the changelog.txt:
nirsoft_installer changelog
Version 1.35 - 10 Jun 10:
Added RouterPassView - View details in router backup files (2000+)
Added BulkFileChanger - Updated file times (2000+)
Added NK2Edit - Edit Outlook auto-complete addresses (2000+)
Added NetRouteView - View Network routes (2000+)
Added OperaPassView - View Opera passwords (2000+)
Added SearchFilterView - View installed search filters (2000+)
Added AppCrashView - View application crash dumps (Vista+)
Added ShellMenuNew - View list of 'New' menu items (2000+)
Added DiskCountersView - View hard disk counters (XP+)
Added DiskSmartView - View S.M.A.R.T hard disk information (2000+)
Added WinPrefetchView - View Windows pre-fetch (.pf) files (XP+)
Added FlashCookiesView - View Flash cookies (2000+)
Reworked install types:
1: Top Ten
2: All - Windows 7/Vista or newer
3: All - Windows 2008/2003/XP
4: All - Windows 2000/NT
5: All - Windows NT
6: All - Windows ME/98/95
7: All - Windows 95
Version 1.34 - 31 Dec 09:
Added DevManView - Display All Installed Devices (2000+)
Version 1.33 - 29 Sep 09:
Added WinFontsView - View Installed Fonts (2000+)
Replaced nsisunz.dll with nsUnzip.dll (Fixed BlueScreenView unzip issue)
Added FileTypesMan: Alternative to 'File Types' manager of Windows (98-ME)
Version 1.32 - 10 Aug 09:
Added BlueScreenView - Display 'blue screen of death' crash information (XP+)
Added BluetoothCL - Monitor the Bluetooth activity around you (XP+)
Added LiveContactsView - View MSN Live Contacts
Added Dialupass - Reveal Dial-up Passwords (2000+) (Thanks MrBrian!)
Updated Dialupass2 - Reveal Dial-up Passwords (98-NT)
Changed DumpEDID's entry from GUI to CLI
Reworked install types:
1: Top 10
2: Windows 7/Vista/2008/2003/XP or newer
3: Windows 2000/NT
4: Windows NT
5: Windows ME/98/95
6: Windows 95
Version 1.31 - 24 June 09:
Added MACAddressView - Lookup MAC Address company information (98+)
Added OutlookStatView - Display Outlook mailbox statistics (2000+)
Version 1.30 - 18 Apr 09:
Added DownTester - Test Download Speed
Added WhatInStartup - Enable/Disable Startup Applications (2000+)
Version 1.29 - 01 Apr 09:
Added Clipboardic - Save Clipboard Activity to .clp Files (2000+)
Added CurrPorts - IP to Country file (IpToCountry.csv)
Added IPInfoOffline - IP to Country file (IpToCountry.csv)
Added SmartSniff - IP to Country file (IpToCountry.csv)
Added USBDeview - USB VendorID/ProductID file (usb.ids)
Version 1.28 - 13 Mar 09:
Added AlternateStreamView - View NTFS Alternate Streams (2000+)
Added OutlookAttachView - View Outlook Attachments (2000+)
Added SearchMyFiles - Improved File Search Method (2000+)
Version 1.27 - 01 Jan 09:
Added ChromeCacheView - Google Chrome Web Browser Cache Viewer
Added SNRemove - Removes reference to strong name signatures from .NET exes/dlls
Added StartBlueScreen - Crash Windows by initiating a Blue Screen of Death (2000+)
Removed duplicate AtNow entry, thanks MrBrian!
Version 1.26 - 27 Nov 08:
Added DNSDataView - GUI Alternative to NSLookup (XP+)
Added IPInfoOffline - View IP Address Information Offline
Added SkypeLogView - View Skype Logs (2000+)
Added UserProfilesView - View User Profiles (2000+)
Added WirelessNetConsole - Console App to Dump Wireless Network Information (XP+)
Version 1.25 - 15 Sep 08:
Added ChromePass - Reveal Google Chrome Web Browser Passwords
Version 1.24 - 10 Sep 08:
Added OperaCacheView - View Opera Web browser cache
Added UserAssistView - View UserAssist Entries Registry Entries
Version 1.23 - 11 Aug 08:
Added ShellBagsView - View Saved Folders Settings
Added PasswordFox - Recover the passwords of Mozilla Firefox
Changed sort order of program list to be case-insensitive
Version 1.22 - 15 Jul 08:
Fixed broken link for Dialupass
Fixed broken link for IEDesignMode
Version 1.21 - 14 Jul 08:
Added ProcessActivityView - View process access of files & folders
Added SocketSniff - Watch WinSock Activity of Selected Processes
Added GACView - .NET assembly viewer alternative
Added IECacheView - Internet Explorer Cache Viewer
Added RegFromApp - Creates .reg file from application
Added VNCPassView - Recover the passwords stored by the VNC tool
Fixed HTMLDocEdit description
Fixed FileDateChanger description
Removed Windows NT+ specific apps from Windows 95+ InstType, and visa versa
Fixed Windows 95/98 vs. Windows 2000/XP links (really), thanks Dubiaku!
Re-alphabetized program list
Version 1.20 - 06 Jun 08:
Added CleanAfterMe - Auto clean files and registry entries
Added DotNetResourcesExtract - Extract Resources from .NET applications
Added HtmlDocEdit - Simple HTML designer/editor
Added MUICacheView
Added ResourcesExtract - Extract Resources from DLL,EXE,OCX files
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/resourcesextract.zip
Added SpecialFoldersView - View Special Folder Locations
Fixed Windows 95/98 vs. Windows 2000/XP links
Changed Added leading space to "Website" and "Uninstall" icons
Version 1.19 - 17 Apr 08:
Added MyEventViewer - Event Log Viewer
Version 1.18 - 19 Mar 08:
Added MyEventViewer - Event Log Viewer
Added SiteShoter - Save Screenshots of Web Pages
Added WirelessNetView: Monitor wireless networks on your area
Version 1.17 - 06 Feb 08:
Added BluetoothView: Monitor the Bluetooth activity around you
Added FileTypesMan: Alternative to 'File Types' manager of Windows
Added OpenWithView: Disable/Enable items in the 'Open With' dialog-box of Windows
Updated "Top 10" list per http://www.nirsoft.net/top_utilities_downloads.html
Version 1.16 - 29 Dec 07:
Changed "All" to "All - Windows 2000/XP/2003" & InstType "All - Windows 95/98/ME"
Added InsideClipboard: View clipboard contents
Added RecentFilesView: View Recent Files (Unicode & non-Unicode versions)
Added WebVideoCap: Capture Flash video and RTSP streams
Added HashMyFiles: Calculate MD5/SHA1/CRC32 hashes of your files (Unicode & non-Unicode versions)
Added Unicode version of NK2View
Added Unicode version of URLProtocolView
Update "Top 10" list per http://www.nirsoft.net/top_utilities_downloads.html
Re-alphabetized application list
Version 1.15 - 21 Nov 07:
Added MyLastSearches
Added InstalledCodec
Version 1.14 - 30 Oct 07:
Added VideoCacheView
Version 1.13 - 02 Oct 07:
Added MozillaCacheView
Version 1.12 - 18 Sep 07:
Added MozillaHistoryView
Version 1.11 - 11 Sep 07:
Added RegDllView
Added IEDesignMode
Version 1.10 - 07 Sep 07:
Added HeapMemView
Version 1.9 - 06 Aug 07:
Added GDIView
Added URLProtocolView
Removed "What's New" install options
Upgraded NSIS to 2.29
Version 1.8 - 22 May 07:
Added RunAsDate
Version 1.7 - 05 Apr 07:
Added NK2View
Fixed user defined start menu folder bug
Upgraded NSIS to 2.24
Version 1.6 - 27 Dec 06:
Added Remote Desktop PassView - Display passwords in .rdp files used by the Remote Desktop Connection utility
Updated description text
Version 1.5 - 18 Oct 06:
Added "What's New" category, containing the following items
Added DumpEDID - Dump extended display identification data
Added LSASecretsDump - Dumps LSA secrets (RAS/VPN passwords)
Added LSASecretsView - Displays LSA secrets (RAS/VPN passwords)
Added MonitorInfoView - Displays monitor information
Added USBDeview - Lists all USB devices
Added WirelessKeyView - Recovers all wireless network keys
Version 1.4 - 23 Aug 06:
Added Iepv - IEPassView
Version 1.3 - 21 Aug 06:
Upgraded NSIS to 2.19
Version 1.2 - 23 Jun 06:
Added PstPassword
Added InjectedDLL
Version 1.1 - 12 May 06:
Download errors are retried 5 times before reporting failure
Version 1.0 - 14 Apr 06:
Initial release
$Id$
and here's the readme.txt:
nirsoft_installer -
Copyright (c) 2005-2009 Ross Smith II (http://smithii.com) All Rights Reserved
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
nirsoft_installer lets you download and install most of the freeware
applications available at http://nirsoft.net.
nirsoft_installer looks in the directory where nirsoft_installer.exe is for
any files it needs before attempting to download them. If it does download a
file, it will attempt to save a copy of the file in this same directory.
nirsoft_installer adds the installation directory (typically
C:\Program Files\NirSoft) to your PATH environment variable.
If the program is a Windows GUI application, an icon is created in the
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Start Menu\Programs\NirSoft directory.
Applications that require Windows 98, ME, or NT 4.0, are not included.
Note: you are responsible to verify that each program you install using
nirsoft_installer is designed to work in your environment.
If you are unsure, then please visit http://nirsoft.net for more information.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Usage: nirsoft_installer [options]
Options:
/S Install the application silently with the default options selected
/D=path Install into the directory 'path' (default is
%ProgramFiles%\NirSoft)
/INSTYPE n Where n is a number between 0 and 3:
0: Top 10 (Default)
1: All - Windows 2000/XP/2003
2: All - Windows 95/98/ME
3: None
The following options are planned to be implemented in a future version:
/SAVEDIR d Save downloaded files in directory d
/PROXY Set proxy settings
/RETRIES n Number of times to retry each download before reporting failure
(default: 5)
/ALLUSERS Install icons for all users
This is the default if the user is an administrator
/USER Install icons for the current user only
This is the default if the user is not an administrator
/VERSION Show the version and quit
/? Show this help message and quit
$Id$
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Something is wrong (backward). When choosing a custom installation and Unicode (XP, 2003, etc.), the Windows 98 programs are checked for download, and vice versa.
thank you
Something is wrong (backward). When choosing a custom installation and Unicode (XP, 2003, etc.), the Windows 98 programs are checked for download, and vice versa.
Some new programs not included, like ProcessActivityView and RegFromApp. Will they be added?
v1.33
Thanks for your work! Very useful!
v1.33 is my first version ( with all XP tool selected ) and I see only one problem with bluescreenview.exe: a folder called "bluescreenview.exe" was created into the NirSoft installation folder and I can't see their shortcut. All other tools seems downloaded and installed fine.
I would like to see a couple of new options during the setup:
- to choose a custom folder for the shorcuts
- and for save my install settings
Finally, I wonder if you can develop a similar installer for another great collections of tools from Sysinternals. I can download a pack, but I would like to have a similar StartMenu folder with all the shorcuts correctly named.
thanks
Suggestion: rename the readme.txt in zip packages
All of the the NirSoft software packages include a readme.txt file, this file gets overwritten by the readme.txt from the next package, the installer should rename this file, e.g. if the package is bluetoothview.zip then rename the readme.txt in it to be bluetoothview.txt. Then no file is lost.
Nirsoft
Some drawbacks are
Nirsoft Installer 1.31 missing 3 programs: BluetoothCL, BlueScreenView, and LiveContactsView so they should override the old version.
sarafoster
These 3 programs were added in version 1.33
ndhermit
Good suggestion. I'll try to get that in the next release.
Error
Not sure what happened to my previous post... But anyhow, I am receiving an error using the latest version (1.32). Specifically, during installation (Windows 7 RC, selected all utilities, XP/2003/Vista/2008/7+) unpacking bluescreenview.zip fails.
I have disabled A/V software, disabled Windows Defender, ran with admin rights (UAC is enabled), no difference. I can manually download and unpack the bluescreenview.zip file from the nirsoft.net website, so it's unlikely that the hosted file is corrupt...
Any suggestions?
Error
Getting an error during install using version 1.32 unpacking bluescreenview.zip. I can download and unzip this file OK from the nirsoft.net website.
Disabled any A/V software, disabled Windows Defender (using Windows 7 RC), no change. UAC is enabled, also attempted installer execution with Admin rights, no change.
NirSoft Installer 1.31 issues
Nirsoft Installer 1.31 is missing these 3 programs: BluetoothCL, BlueScreenView, and LiveContactsView (all 3 are new programs, so this isn't an oversight)
Nirsoft Installer downloads Dialupass but it isn't the latest version available from Nirsoft.
MrBrian,
I've incorporated your suggestions into 1.32. Thanks for the heads up!
NirSoft Installer 1.31 mirror
NirSoft Installer 1.31 mirror @ FreewareGeeks.com:
http://www.freewaregeeks.com/?page=detail&get_id=1579&category=69
OutlookStartView?
OutlookStartView?

v1.30
Version 1.30 is missing OutlookStatView
NirSoft Installer 1.30 mirror
NirSoft Installer 1.30 mirror @ FreewareGeeks.com:
http://www.freewaregeeks.com/?page=detail&get_id=1579&category=69
Ability to select 64bit specific apps
Hi,
I found your site after delving into the MSFN project for the SI installer and noticed the NirSoft installer you have built as well.
I know that Nir Sofer makes *some* apps that are 64bit specific, and I *believe* that there may be one or two such projects as well in the Sysinternals build - would there be an easy way to modify the NSIS script to allow for selection of 64bit apps for those apps that are 64bit specific?
P.S. - sorry about the post to the RSS - for some reason I did not see the message to post here until after I had posted there....
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I am I.
Mirror
NirSoft Installer 1.29 mirror @ FreewareGeeks.com:
http://www.freewaregeeks.com/?page=detail&get_id=1579&category=69
Mirror
NirSoft Installer 1.28 mirror @ FreewareGeeks.com:
http://www.freewaregeeks.com/?page=detail&get_id=1579&category=69
Nirsoft Installer 1.26 issues
Nirsoft Installer 1.26 is missing these 3 programs:
chromecacheview, snremove, and startbluescreen.
In the configuration file, the line '!insertmacro DownloadCLI "2 3" "AtNow - Near-Future Command Scheduler" "http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chromepass.zip" ""' can be removed.
P.S. Thank you for this time-saving program!
Nirsoft Installer 1.20
Something is wrong (backward). When choosing a custom installation and Unicode (XP, 2003, etc.), the Windows 98 programs are checked for download, and vice versa.
Some new programs not included, like ProcessActivityView and RegFromApp. Will they be added?
Dubiaku
Thank you for the feedback. I have incorporated all of your fixes into the 1.21 release.
Nirsoft Installer 1.18
Download link does not work. Got a "page not found" message.
philb
The link works now. Thanks for the heads up.
Why differs
The iso's differs because iso creation time differs.
Use any binary viewer and check it Yourselt