I have posted many tips in the past on system utilities available from both Sysinternals and Nirsoft. While these programs are excellent, on drawback is they lack any kind of auto-update functionality meaning you have to check for updates manually. To always make sure you have the latest version and are notified of new releases, check out Windows System Control Center.
Their description says it all:
WSCC is a free, portable program that allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites. WSCC is only an interface, you need to download and install the utilities separately. Alternatively, WSCC can use the http protocol to download and run the programs.
The included Update Manager can check for newer versions of the utilities already installed and can download and install the missing items.
The setup packages are downloaded from the author’s website!
This is completely awesome as it allows you to have the latest version of the utilities always available on your system with minimal effort. Additionally, you can put this program on your USB drive as a gateway to always access the latest version without having to maintain them yourself.
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Nice to see you mentioning nirsoft They are the makers of my favorite utility volumouse http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/volumouse.html . I have used this for years it allows you to use the mouse wheel as volume control you can set up different volumes or master volume . It also lets you adjust transparency.