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We should have a sub-thread of these comments devoted just to the silly things people use NirSoft stuff to do. I'll start.

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I have a HTPC hooked up to a projector that I use to play movies, and the projector has native support for 24 FPS, so I use this:

http://nircmd.nirsoft.net/setdisplay.html

to quickly set framerate. Make batch files for 24 Hz, 60 Hz, etc. bind them to keys, and then you don't have to bother going into a display settings GUI.

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I'd love to have a utility that quickly toggles between two audio outputs in windows.

You can create a shortcut to

  C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL mmsys.cpl,,playback

I could have sworn that's a feature in Windows 10.

Edit: nope, but https://soundswitch.aaflalo.me/ will do it - never used it though.

There are several, but I haven't used any of them in a while (probably around Win8/8.1. Here are a couple I've used...

https://audioswit.ch/er

https://github.com/sirWest/AudioSwitch

I think there was another that was some variation on "audio" and "switch"/"switcher".

You can also create a shortcut to nircmd with the setdefaultsounddevice value set and assign a hotkey for the shortcut.

Now I use EarTrumpet, which lists devices in the right click menu.

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