A nice tool i played with back in school. Together with PStart we created an portable suite for "privilege extension" on our very restricted school environment.
I do not really think it belongs on a news page in 2015.
It's useful (although the tools for extracting mail passwords and wifi keys see far more use from me). Nirsoft tools have saved me hours, especially SysExporter (iirc).
Hacker News isn't really about news, although that's a big part of it. Really, it should be called HackerJoy.
The guidelines say:
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
I used the same solution until I found Audio Switcher - https://github.com/davkean/audio-switcher. I prefer it because it sits in the tray where it's more accessible.
This is a great tool. I use it for adjusting brightness/volume via cmd.exe on laptops (because I hate using sliders); taking screenshots and enacting delays in batch files; and also for creating macros using batch files. It is an excellent easy-to-install augmentation to cmd.exe since all it requires is the nircmd.exe file in a known location.
I do not really think it belongs on a news page in 2015.