NirCmd Alternatives

NirCmd is described as 'Small utility that allows you to do many useful tasks from command-line, without displaying any user interface: change your display settings, turn off your monitor, open the door of your CD-ROM drive, and more' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are eight alternatives to NirCmd for Windows and Linux. The best NirCmd alternative is Wizmo, which is free. Other great apps like NirCmd are WinParrot, NEC Brightness Controller, Tron and Batch MessageBox.

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NirCmd alternatives page was last updated Jul 24, 2023
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  1. Wizmo icon
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    Wizmo is a multi-purpose, miscellaneous Windows function, "catch all" with a growing list of uncommon but useful features and capabilities.

    17 Wizmo alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Wizmo VS NirCmd

     
    • Wizmo is the most popular Windows alternative to NirCmd.

    • Wizmo is the most popular free alternative to NirCmd.

    • Wizmo is Free and ProprietaryNirCmd is also Free and Proprietary
  2. WinParrot icon
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    Free software for easily automate your recurring tasks.

    • Automate your recurring tasks
    • Load your data into your applications (Internet Explorer, Oracle Applications, SAP ...) using data from an Excel spreadsheet
    • Test the robustness of an application by simulating multiple u.
    56 WinParrot alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    WinParrot Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Record desktop activity

    WinParrot VS NirCmd

     
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    Brightness Controller easily allows windows users to set the brightness level of your LCD screen (It is very useful when your screen doesn't allow settings to be remembered without having to push many buttons on your screen!).

    26 NEC Brightness Controller alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    Last version, 1.0.0, was released on 2003. It is no more available on the official website, but it can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine. It works on Windows 7 too.

    NEC Brightness Controller Features

    1.  Display Management

    NEC Brightness Controller VS NirCmd

     
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    Tron is a console application which simulates user intervention for otherwise unscriptable applications.

    2 Tron alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.9.10, released in September 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

    Tron Features

    1.  Support for scripting

    Tron VS NirCmd

     
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    This is a tiny hack to display message boxes from Windows batch files and command line programs. There are many like it but the developer didn't find any that was open source, non-copyleft and had no external dependencies (.NET Framework, GTK+, etc.).

    5 Batch MessageBox alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Batch MessageBox Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Portable

    Batch MessageBox VS NirCmd

     
    • Batch MessageBox is the most popular Open Source alternative to NirCmd.

    • Batch MessageBox is Free and Open SourceNirCmd is Free and Proprietary
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    The Tcl Windows API (TWAPI) extension provides Tcl bindings to the Windows API. It provides, among other things, the functionality required to simulate mouse clicks, key presses, etc. for the purpose of automation.

    9 TWAPI alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    TWAPI Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  TCL

    TWAPI VS NirCmd

     
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    Xdialog is designed to be a drop in replacement for the "dialog" or "cdialog" programs. It converts any terminal based program into a program with an X-windows interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use while adding even more functionalities (e.g.

    21 xdialog alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    xdialog Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Gtk

    xdialog VS NirCmd

     
    • xdialog is the most popular Linux alternative to NirCmd.

    • xdialog is Free and Open SourceNirCmd is Free and Proprietary
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    Annoyed again because one of your apps is offscreen? Do you have to struggle with keyboard shortcuts, to bring it back or do they not work again? Borderline moves all windows back into the screen bounds.

    33 Borderline - The End of off-screen Apps alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Borderline - The End of off-screen Apps Features

    1.  Support for Multiple Monitors
    2.  On top

    Borderline - The End of off-screen Apps VS NirCmd

     
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