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NirCmd v1.80 - Freeware command-line tool
Copyright (c) 2003
- 2005 Nir Sofer

Description
NirCmd is a small command-line
utility that allows 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...

Examples of what you can do with NirCmd

Open the door of J: CD-ROM drive

nircmd.exe cdrom open j:

Close the door of Y: CD-ROM drive

nircmd.exe cdrom close y:

Increase the system volume by 2000 units (out of 65535)

nircmd.exe changesysvolume 2000

Decrease the system volume by 5000 units (out of 65535)

nircmd.exe changesysvolume -5000

Set the volume to the highest value

nircmd.exe setsysvolume 65535

Mute the system volume

nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 1

Unmute the system volume

nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 0

Switch the system volume between the mute and normal state.

nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 2

Create a shortcut on your desktop that switch the system volume
between the mute and normal state.

nircmd.exe cmdshortcut "~$folder.desktop$"
"Switch Volume" mutesysvolume 2

Turn off the monitor

nircmd.exe monitor off

Start the default screen saver

nircmd.exe screensaver

Put your computer in 'standby' mode

nircmd.exe standby

log off the current user

nircmd.exe exitwin logoff

Ask if you want to reboot, and if you answer 'Yes', reboot the
computer.

nircmd.exe qboxcom "Do you want to
reboot ?" "question" exitwin reboot

Turn off your computer

nircmd.exe exitwin poweroff

Turn off all computers specified in computers.txt !

multiremote copy
"c:\temp\computers.txt" exitwin poweroff force

Dial to "My Internet" connection

nircmd.exe rasdial "My Internet"

Disconnect the "My Internet" connection

nircmd.exe rashangup "My Internet"

Make your Internet Explorer windows 75% transparent ! (192 /
256)

nircmd.exe win trans ititle "internet
explorer" 192

Minimize all your Internet Explorer windows

nircmd.exe win min class "IEFrame"

Close all your Internet Explorer windows

nircmd.exe win close class "IEFrame"

Close all your Explorer windows (My Computer, folders, and so
on)

nircmd.exe win close class
"CabinetWClass"

Hide all your Internet Explorer windows

nircmd.exe win hide class "IEFrame"

Show all your Internet Explorer windows (after you made them
hidden with previous example)

nircmd.exe win show class "IEFrame"

Center all top-level windows

nircmd.exe win center alltop

Remove the title bar of My Computer window.

nircmd.exe win -style title "my
computer" 0x00C00000

Return the title bar of My Computer window that we removed in
the previous example.

nircmd.exe win +style title "my
computer" 0x00C00000

Set the My Computer window to right-to-left order (For hebrew
and arabic languages)

nircmd win +exstyle title "my computer"
0x00400000

Set all child windows of My Computer window to right-to-left
order (For hebrew and arabic languages)

nircmd win child title "my computer"
+exstyle all 0x00400000

Create a shortcut on your desktop that closes all your Internet
Explorer windows

nircmd.exe cmdshortcut " "~$folder.desktop$
"Close All IE" win close class "IEFrame"

Create a shortcut on your desktop that hides all your Internet
Explorer windows

nircmd.exe cmdshortcut " "~$folder.desktop$
"Hide All IE" win hide class "IEFrame"

Create a shortcut on your desktop that shows back all your
Internet Explorer windows

nircmd.exe cmdshortcut " "~$folder.desktop$
"Show All IE" win show class "IEFrame"

Set the Windows Calculator as top-most window (above all other
windows)

nircmd.exe win settopmost title
"Calculator" 1

Set the Windows Calculator back to regular window (non top-most
window)

nircmd.exe win settopmost title
"Calculator" 0

Create a shortcut to Windows calculator under Start
Menu->Programs->Calculators

nircmd.exe shortcut
"f:\winnt\system32\calc.exe" "~$folder.programs$\Calculators"
"Windows Calculator"

Hide the desktop window

nircmd.exe win hide class progman

Show the desktop window (After hiding it in previous example)

nircmd.exe win show class progman

Hide the start button on the system tray

nircmd.exe win child class
"Shell_TrayWnd" hide class "button"

Show the start button on the system tray

nircmd.exe win child class
"Shell_TrayWnd" show class "button"

Hide the clock on the system tray

nircmd.exe win child class
"Shell_TrayWnd" hide class "TrayClockWClass"

Show the clock on the system tray

nircmd.exe win child class
"Shell_TrayWnd" show class "TrayClockWClass"

Kill (terminate) all instance of Internet Explorer processes

nircmd.exe killprocess iexplore.exe

Create a shortcut on your desktop that opens the door of K:
CDROM drive when you run it.

nircmd.exe cmdshortcut "~$folder.desktop$"
"Open CDROM" cdrom open k:

Create a shortcut to NirSoft Web site on your desktop

nircmd.exe urlshortcut
"http://www.nirsoft.net" "~$folder.desktop$" "NirSoft"

Add NirSoft Web site to your Favorities under Links folder.

nircmd.exe urlshortcut
"http://www.nirsoft.net" "~$folder.favorites$\Links" "NirSoft"

Create a shortcut to NirSoft Web site on the desktop of all
computers listed in computers.txt

nircmd.exe multiremote copy
"c:\temp\computers.txt" urlshortcut "http://www.nirsoft.net"
"~$folder.common_desktop$" "NirSoft"

Set the display mode to 800x600x24bit colors

nircmd.exe setdisplay 800 600 24

Create a shortcut on the desktop that set the display mode to
800x600x24bit colors

nircmd.exe cmdshortcut "~$folder.desktop$"
"800x600x24" setdisplay 800 600 24

Copy all shortcuts on your desktop to another folder
(f:\temp\desktop).

nircmd.exe execmd copy
"~$folder.desktop$\*.lnk" f:\temp\desktop

Restart your Apache server (under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003)

nircmd.exe service restart apache

Create a shortcut on your desktop that restarts the Apache
server

nircmd.exe cmdshortcut "~$folder.desktop$"
"Restart Apache" service restart apache

Restart your IIS

nircmd.exe service restart w3svc

Restart MySql

nircmd.exe service restart MySql

Open the desired Registry key/value in RegEdit

nircmd.exe regedit
"HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion" "CommonFilesDir"

Open the Registry key that you copied to the clipboard in
RegEdit.

nircmd regedit "~$clipboard$"

Disable the screen saver

nircmd.exe regsetval sz "HKCU\control
panel\desktop" "ScreenSaveActive" 0

Enable the screen saver

nircmd.exe regsetval sz "HKCU\control
panel\desktop" "ScreenSaveActive" 1

Change the date/time of the specified filename (creation time
and modified time)

nircmd.exe setfiletime "c:\temp\myfile.txt"
"24-06-2003 17:57:11" "22-11-2005 10:21:56"

Copy your desktop folder path to the clipboard

nircmd.exe clipboard set ~$folder.desktop$

Copy your start menu folder path to the clipboard

nircmd.exe clipboard set ~$folder.start_menu$

Copy the content of info1.txt (simple text file) to the
clipboard

nircmd.exe clipboard readfile "c:\My
Files\info1.txt"

Add the text content of clipboard to info1.txt

nircmd.exe clipboard addfile "c:\My
Files\info1.txt"

Clear the clipboard

nircmd.exe clipboard clear

Create all folders specified in "c:\temp\folders.txt". The
folder path names are separated by CRLF characters.

nircmd.exe paramsfile "c:\temp\folders.txt" ""
"" execmd md ~$fparam.1$

Install the specified .NET assembly in the global assembly cache
(like gacutil)

nircmd.exe gac install
"C:\temp\MyAssembly\bin\MyAssembly.dll"

System Requirements
This utility can work in all
32-bit Windows operating systems: Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000,
and Windows XP. However, some of NirCmd commands works only on Windows
NT/2000/XP.

Versions History

Date

Version

Description

24/09/2005

1.80

New commands: exec2, cmdwait.

New options in clipboard command.

Volume commands (setsysvolume, changesysvolume, setsysvolume2,
changesysvolume2, mutesysvolume) now allows you to change the
volume of non-default sound card.

07/07/2005

1.70

New win actions: activate, hideshow, +style, -style, +exstyle,
-exstyle

New commands: movecursor, setcursor.

New command: setfilefoldertime - allows you to change the
date/time of folders, under Windows 2000/XP only.

10/06/2005

1.62

New actions in win command: focus, enable, disable

26/05/2005

1.61

new command: sysrefresh - make a general system refresh after
modifying your system settings in the Registry.

07/05/2005

1.60

New paramsfile command: Allows you to execute a command
multiple times by loading the parameters from a text file.

New actions in win command: move, center, settext.

New 'child' action in win command: Allows you to move/hide
child windows (For example: the start button in the system tray)

New clipboard command: Allows you to put a string in the
clipboard, and clear the clipboard.

New gac command: Allows you to install assemblies in Global
Assembly Cache.

28/12/2004

1.56

New variable: ~$clipboard$ - paste the text that you copied to
the clipboard into the command-line.

Parameter variables: ~$param.ParamName$ - Display an input
window for typing the text that you want insert into the
command-line.

07/12/2004

1.55

Added RegEdit command.

18/11/2004

1.54

On reg commands (regsetval, regdelval, regdelkey), you can now
also use the following abbreviated key name: HKCU for
HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKLM for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKCR for
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKU for HKEY_USERS, HKCC for
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG.

redraw action for win command.

03/11/2004

1.53

Fixed 'monitor off' problem in XP SP2.

09/10/2004

1.52

rasapi32.dll is now loaded only when using the dial commands
(rasdial, rasdialdlg, rashangup). In previous versions, NirCmd was
statically linked to rasapi32.dll, and that caused problems in old
NT systems.

29/09/2004

1.51

Variable names are now enclosed with '$' char instead of '%'
char.
I made this change because the '%' char causes problems
when running NirCmd from cmd/bat file. using the '%' char for
variable names is still supported for backward compatibility.

22/09/2004

1.50

New commands: cmdshortcut, regsvr, mutesysvolume,
changesysvolume, changesysvolume2, setsysvolume2.

New actions in win command: trans, setsize, settopmost,
ititle.

New variables: folder.nircmd, nir.exefile

nircmdc.exe - console version of NirCmd.

Changed name - from NirComLime to NirCmd.

05/05/2004

1.40

New commands: wait, setvolume, setsysvolume, execmd, exec.

New commands for executing NirCmd on remote machines: remote
and multiremote.

Folder and system variables.

New option in setfiletime command - set the file time to the
current time (now parameter)

New parameter in shortcut command - hot key.

01/03/2004

1.30

New commands: qboxcom, beep, stdbeep, cdrom, urlshortcut,
monitor, screensaver, standby, and hibernate.

Fixed the bug with ~x string sequences.

08/01/2004

1.20

New commands: setdialuplogon, script

Special string sequences (~q, ~t, ~n and so on) to allow you
to embed quotes and new line characters into the parameters of any
command.

19/11/2003

1.11

New options in shortcut command

10/10/2003

1.10

New commands: killprocess, service, memdump, win, lockws.

09/09/2003

1.00

First release.

License
This utility is released as freeware.
You are allowed to freely distribute this utility via floppy disk, CD-ROM,
Internet, or in any other way, as long as you don't charge anything for
this. If you distribute this utility, you must include all files in the
distribution package, without any modification !

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