What is extTools

extTools is a fast and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) software suite to help you executing common tasks in Windows File Explorer more easily.

It’s main features are:

• Advanced clipboard support (copy, append or modify).
• File operation queuing (batch copy or paste).
• Better & quicker file deletions.
• Powerful file renaming algorithms.
• XP like search tool (simple search tool).
• Extends Windows File Explorer by registering as a Shell Extension.

extTools allows its users to execute tasks that are not available in a default Windows environment. extTools is also designed to replace existing task that are badly designed, annoying to execute or simply missing.

HDHomeRun TV Dump

HdHomeRun TV Dump is a GUI that installs over the native HDHomeRun application and allows owners to quickly take control over the free to air live TV stream. Implementing DVR capabilities on your computer becomes a easy as 1-2-3.

It is designed to make interaction with the device easy by automating as much as possible any task a user would like to execute.

It’s main features are:

• Quicker & easier to understand and install than other DVR solutions like MythTV and Windows Media Center.
• Auto-detection of existing HDHomeRun devices on the network.
• Auto-detection of busy tuners.
• Automatic selection of an available tuner for watching or recording a live TV stream.
• Manual recording support.
• Scheduled recording support (enables DVR capabilities with the HDHomeRun)
• Watch live TV streams.

HDHomeRun TV Dump should also work with devices that supports the MPEG4/H.264 video codec but this functionality is still untested.

DNS343Monitor

DNS-343 Monitor is a tool for monitoring how much space is left on your DNS-343 NAS device.

The DNS-343 is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device that can hold as much as 4 drives. Since all the drives are shared in a Network, each disk can quickly become full. This tools allows you to see the remaining space left on each individual drives.

It’s main features are:

• Show space left and used for each drives.
• GUI supported.
• Compatible with all firmware versions.

Note: This tool requires administrator privileges on the DNS-343 for retrieving free space left.

MSBuildReorder

Please note that MSBuildReorder source code is now moved to GitHub. Source code can be downloaded from the project’s GitHub page.

MSBuildReorder is a tool for “reordering” (buildorder) a multi-process C++ build log. It allows a developer to convert the build log as if it was generated with a single processor.

Building a solution that has multiple projects can quickly become bloated with too many lines that are not related to each other. For this reason, finding the actual cause of a build fail is harder than it should be. MSBuildReorder is able to read the log and reorder the projects in a sequential order.

OfficeReadOnly

OfficeReadOnly is a tool that allows a user to open any Office Documents as a Read-Only document directly from the File Explorer.

It’s main features are:

• Integrates into Windows File Explorer or the with the “Send to” folder.
• Supports Documents, Workbooks, Presentations and Diagrams.
• Supports both Microsoft Office 2003 (*.doc) and Microsoft Office 2010 file extensions (*.doc, and *.docx).
• Can be used from the command prompt.

Microsoft Office does not supports opening files as read-only when right-clicking a document from the File Explorer menu and it does not support opening file as read-only from the command prompt.

bin2cpp

Please note that bin2cpp source code is now moved to GitHub. Source code can be downloaded from the project’s GitHub page.

bin2cpp is a command line tool for embedding small files (like images, icons or raw data files) into a C++ executable.

It’s main features are:

• Easily converts small files as C++ source code for embedding into a C++ executable.
• Content extraction supported by a unique function call for each embedded file.
• Supports a multiple embedded files at once.
• Makes it harder for resource hacker to modify or steal the embedded files.
• No third party libraries required for retrieving the data of the embedded files.

bin2cpp is not implemented using executable resources. Instead, bin2cpp creates multiple function calls for retrieving the data which makes it harder to steal the executable’s content. It also makes it even harder to replace an existing resource of the executable.