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NirLauncher puts hundreds of Nirsoft and SysInternals apps in one tidy package

NirSoft has developed a truckload of useful little applications over the years, many of which you're probably carting around on a USB flash drive if you do any admin work.

Now, thanks to the availability of the NirLauncher beta, Nir's applications are easier to download and use than ever. Included with the NirLauncher executable are more than 100 applications including password viewers for various apps, command line utilities, web video tools, and loads more.

As Nir points out on his blog post, at least one of the apps in the suite is probably going to trigger a false positive from your antivirus app of choice.

As an added bonus, NirLauncher can accept additional app packages -- like the SysInternals, for example.

You'll need to download and extract both NirLauncher (grab it from the bottom of the blog post) and the SysInternals suite, and then grab the SysInternals.nlp file from Nirsoft (right click here and save as to download). Make sure you save the .nlp into the same folder you extracted the SysInternals zip into.

Start NirLauncher, then click the SysInternals.nlp file and drag it onto the NirLauncher program window. You'll then be able to switch between suites by pressing F3 and F4.

Since a .nlp is just a definition file, you should be able to add just about any of your favorite portable utilities to NirLauncher in this way - just follow the SysInternals example!

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