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• DetectSound.exe has been completely rewritten.
Whereas the old version 1 used MS Speech Recognition, which is now deprecated, the new version 2 uses Mark Heath's NAudio instead.
The old version remains available as DetectSound1

Thanks Mark

• WMIC is deprecated, hence it is disabled by default in Windows 11.
Since many of my batch files rely on WMIC I wrote a "hybrid" batch file (batch, VBScript and PowerShell) to re-enable it: Win11WMIC.bat.
It uses PowerShell code found in Tiger Technology's Knowledge Base.
The VBScript code to elevate privileges comes from Evan Greene.

Thanks guys.

• Another update for ExtractExcel.exe:

a new optional /EMPTY argument makes the program skip rows where any of the specified columns in the source file is not empty

• ExtractExcel.exe has been updated:

a bug has been fixed where an existing target spreadsheet was opened in readonly mode
column names A..ZZZ are now accepted (used to be A..Z only)
a new optional /SKIP argument makes the program skip a number of lines in the source file
a new optional /NOTEMPTY argument makes the program skip rows where any of the specified columns in the source file is empty

• Back by popular demand: BatCodeCheck.exe.
A couple of years ago I decided to discontinue this popular tool, because I seemed unable to communicate that it was meant to HELP you INVESTIGATE your own batch code, NOT FIX YOUR coding errors.
Last week I received a request to make it available again, which I hereby do, but without support.
It still works as designed, but you'll have to learn to live with the false positives.

• ExtractExcel.exe is a new tool to extract selected data from an Excel source file and write it to a target Excel file.
Besides selecting rows and columns, you can optionally specify a filter, which is interpreted by Mariusz Gromada's unrivaled mXparser (included in the download).

Thanks Mariusz

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