AltUtil - alternative utilities

AltBrowser

• A different approach to dual-pane browser. (use param "/2" to start really in dual-pane mode)
• Key shortcuts partially compatible with Servant Salamander by ALTAP.
  For list of shortcuts: everywhere is popup-menu with keys, by clicking to button with free-size a help item is also available
• Left-right panels are set by activating browser windows. (The "second panel" for current browser is the previously activated one...)
• Handles .rar (up to 2.50) and .zip archives, read-only.
• In a default setup it does not use shell trash-bin!
  Anywhere else but on disks it does not use trash-bin at all!
• Planned: FTP, catalog, etc...
• Recomended usage with TextView from LiteEdit, GrView, IeView etc...
  (Now the zip includes TextView and LiteEdit...)

LiteEdit

• Programmer-oriented plain-text editor.
• Key shortcuts partially compatible with Delphi.
• Multi-tab
• Highlighting - can highlight .pas, .ini, .html, .xml and more... Still missing .c highlighting...
• Navigator
• Templates
• Incremental search
• Production-tool (for ex. a compiler) execution
• Includes separate text viewer with limited editing capabilities, hex-view mode, dump-view of executable structure and more...

AltDesk

• Program to create and switch desktops.
• Using Win+Numpad0..9 keys you can switch up to 10 separate desktops.
  Programs, once started on a desktop, cannot be moved to another desktop, there is no screen-enlargement trick.
  
  Some programs may not be compatible with multi-desktop workstation. Run such programs on a central desk (called "default")...
  (For ex. - Outlook express have been reported to have problems if started on other desktops)
  
  
• Win+/ starts command-prompt on current desktop, which allows you to start other applications.
  Further, per-desktop initialization batch may be configured via registry - see included .reg file...
• On Win7, HkTool does not work on other desktops. Instead import AltDesk_HkTool.reg into registry, so that AltDesk parses HkTool.ini (check path in the reg file...)

HkTool

• A simple hot-key list.
• Can register hotkeys including "Win" key (the key with a flag logo), which does not conflict with most applications...
• Starts applications on current desktop, optionally re-activates previously started application (including switching to the desktop, where the application runs)

AltReg

• Registry editor
• Cannot be easily disabled by a virus, (system regedit can)
• Limitations: cannot rename keys, export is not 100% compatible, import is not implemented, cannot edit binary values...
  (Do you know how regedit renames keys?
  Copies key with new name and deletes old... Use RegMon to see that...
  I'm afraid little of loosing unicode version or security descriptors by my tool, so I don't do that here...)
  (Export is more readable by including most values in their readable form instead of binary - for ex. REG_EXPAND_SZ - so that it is well searchable, but re-importing may loose the expand-sz ability... Same applies to multi-line values...)
  
  
• Advanced searching, selecting, exporting more branches at once...
• MRU history of entered values and key-names, multi-level key create etc...
• Registry map and bookmarking for a fast access into common keys.

ColorSel

• Simple color selector, which can select RGB colors and copy to clipboard in configurable format. (Configuration by right-click on Copy button)
• Keeps history of copied colors.
• Can paste color in hex or dec formats
• Start with "/sys" param to edit system colors.
• Dragging from bottom panel to peek on colors on screen...

ClipWatch

• Forces selected locale (cz,ru,pt...) on text, copied to clipboard by ansi applications
• Optionally removes rtf content (to be more precise: it does nothing, if clipboard contains RTF text or OLE, unless it is directed by you to strip them...)
• Can store log of texts, copied to clipboard
• Can store images (including PrintScreen) copied to clipboard
  
  
• Co-problem: If some other application registers clipboard watching (for ex. delphi) and does not unregister cleanly, clip-watch does not receive clipboard notifications. Anyhow, there is a check-box to re-establish clip-watch notification...

CharMap

• Simple ansi char-map (256 characters)
• User can select just font and script...

Clock

• Simple round analog clock
• Size window with Alt+Arrows, move with Arrows or mouse, Shift for precise move/size...
• With parameter "/sun" shows solar clock (direction to sun, if you look south onto monitor)
• With parameter "/dst" assumes daylight-saving-time even if windows have not been told so
  (DST is important to subtract 1 hour to get sun position... Sun does not use dayligt saving...)
  ((If you configure windows not to move time-zone with DST, file-dates do not change twice a year...))

AltMix

• Simple and small volume control
  (The image above is in real size)
• Use mouse-wheel or dragging to edit slides, optimal with X-mouse feature enabled...

LogView

• View multiple log-files as they grow...
• Param "-f" prevents loading log-file when program starts (just follow new lines)
• Detects unicode log-files on win-nt...
• Detects, if log-file restarted...
  
  
• 050221: Improved memory management - now uses only text-length + 4 bytes_per_line...
• Recomended to start with -f files... flag from batch, so that it does not load previous log contents, just waits new lines...
  Whole log can be reloaded with F5 key, flushed from memory by Ctrl+F8 key...
• Additional logs can be opened by dropping file or from bottom line by command

  open filename.log

  If the file-name contains spaces, it must be quoted...
• This version probably does NOT handle UNICODE logs well - planned to be corrected soon...
• Highlighting by command

  high Log|Sql|Ini|C|Sql|Pascal|none

  (same highlighters as lite-edit)
• Can load/store "desktop" for easy re-open of multiple log-files...

Run

• Alternative to "start" in batches...
• For instructions and possibilities, use "run -h"

PSusp

• Tool for suspending process by name or by process-id.
• For instructions and possibilities, use "psusp -h"
• Can suspend also some rootkits and viruses, that prevent opening their handle by other tools.

AutoSuspend

• Tool for suspending a process.
• Possibly switched by a key-press.
• Can be used to suspend and resume watching/manager software simply.

HexView

• Simple hex editor
• Searching (hex,ansi,unicode)
• Record interpretation, if defined
• Better hex editor is included in TaskView below...

GrView

• Simple image viewer, which supports png, jpg, gif, bmp, ico
• Floating-point zoom (Ctrl+Wheel, Shift+Ctrl+Wheel)
• Floating-point real-time rotation (Alt+Wheel, Shift+Alt+Wheel)
• Real-time HSL adjustment (F5)
• Slide-show
• Simple image browser
• Thumb-image database is now in GrView.pdb in each folder to ease moving folders...
• Preliminary version!

IeView

• Very very simple html file viewer
• uses internet explorer
• For use with Alt-browser, or select URL by F4 key...
• Problem: copying into clipboard does not work... Any help?

TbView

• Paradox and DBF table editor.
• Can restructure tables, search, compare, copy, export/import CSV, etc...
• Multi-SQL commands (separated by ";")
• Includes also a with very limited access to Interbase, just enough to copy tables...
• A command-line tool is included, which supports export/import CSV files, executing SQL commands and restructuring tables from batch...

Catalog

• Program for maintaining a catalog of files, mp3 CDs etc...
• Advanced searching
• MP3 tags in catalog
• Archive (zip,rar) listing in catalog

TaskView

• Advanced task viewer.
• Can view/delete startup items, extension DLLs of explorers etc...
• By showing "Manufacturer" column you can detect on first-sight, which software is suspicious...
• Can view process memory with limited editing capabilities
• Can view process handles and threads, close them, set events, release semaphores etc...
• Thread context view displays a commented stack (call targets, objects).
• Can view and edit environment and current directory of running processes
• Can view, load and unload DLL in a process
• Can view windows in process or on desktop, close windows, send messages etc...
• Can view network sockets, all or per-process (Win2k only)
• Can view objects of programs, written in Delphi 5-7
• Configure services, shares, users, local-groups etc...
• View HD partition layout
• View object-directory of Win-NT, view and search in PhysicalMemory section etc...
• View list of kernel modules
• View/browse highlighted process memory (new 0504).
• View/browse highlighted kernel memory (requires Win2k or WinXP, Administrators membership, does not work with PAE)
• View all handles, threads (Admin required)
• Can display raw results of NtQuerySystemInformation to detect spoofing
• Can view/edit security descriptor where appropriate (process, handle, share, ...)
• Contains Advanced Registry Editor, use TaskView /reg
• Contains PE module (exe,dll) viewer, use TaskView /mod filename.dll
• Contains simple hex editor, use TaskView /hex filename
• Contains simple disk editor, use TaskView /hd C: and press F4
• Most of features are available on Win-NT systems only, only a basic information is available on Win-9x...
  For an alternative to this, see www.sysinternals.com, whose ProcExp program has inspired me to write this tool...
• For a list of commands available on each screen, type "help" command...
  
   
• This tool is not for end users!
  It is a programmer tool or toy.
  It does NOT warn you before you make a mistake... You should know, what you are doing and why...
   
• Works only partially on Win 6+ (Vista, Win7) - handle listing may not work, thread view may not work. Environment editation has been fixed...

ProcLog

• This is a DLL...
• It may be used to:
   -> Log every started process to a file
   -> Prevent starting selected commands (programs)
   -> Automatically load a specified DLL into specified programs.
  

Compile

• Front-end for Delphi command-line compiler dcc32, tested with dcc version 13.0 (Delphi 5)
• Repeated compilation (optionally in case of error only)
• Run compiled application optionaly
• Runs specified programs before or after compilation
• Renames project.cfg to dcc32.cfg, so that correct options are used

Cpl

• Starts control panel applets...
• for example:
  "cpl desk" opens screen properties
  "cpl sysdm" opens "this computer" properties
  etc... for complete list of available CPLs use "cpl -l"

(R)LdMod

• 2 tools for DLL library testing.
• Loads dll in new process (ldmod) or into existing process (rldmod)
• Unloads dll from existing process (rldmod)

TxTools...

• Collection of command-line tools for batch processing
• Includes: awk, grep, ini, prevod, clip, tvw, head, tail, replace and more...
  (See included readme.txt for complete list)

Md5Sum

• Print various hashes MD5,MD2,SHA,TigerHash,Crc32

Eval

• Complex evaluator, mixes javascript and pascal
• Samples for scripted file-download, firebird and sqlite database access, template processing, etc...
• Source included, but only little commented yet...

Wg

• Download tool for http,https,ftp, wget analog...
• Contains scripting module (part of Eval.zip) for automatic downloads...
• (Source code for reference is in Eval.zip above...)

Sudoku

• Sudoku game and design
• Supports normal, box centers, diagonals, hyper-sudoku
• Can print single sudoku or copy image to clipboard for printing multiple on a page in OpenOffice or Word...
• Try keys F8 and F9 for semi-automated mode...
• Ctrl+N generates new game...
• Use digits to enter small choices, Shift+Digits to enter sure digits, Ctrl+Digits to remove digits from choices...

Mp3Enc

• Console program for batch compression wav->mp3.
• Uses free-ware DLL BladeEnc.dll