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Add NirSoft ExecutedProgramsList Module - #1119
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Description
Adds a new LiveResponse module wrapping NirSoft's ExecutedProgramsList, which combines program-execution evidence from the MuiCache and AppCompatFlags "Compatibility Assistant" registry keys (HKCU) with the parsed Windows Prefetch folder into a single CSV of what ran on the system and, where available, when.
Verified directly against NirSoft's own documentation, the only switches are export-format ones (/stext, /stab, /scomma, /stabular, /shtml, /sverhtml, /sxml); there's no switch to point at an offline/collected registry hive or Prefetch folder copy. It reads HKEY_CURRENT_USER and C:\Windows\Prefetch directly from the running system.
How this differs from existing coverage: raw Prefetch files and Registry hives are already collected by existing Targets for offline parsing elsewhere (e.g. PECmd). This module instead gives a live, combined, at-a-glance view across MuiCache/AppCompatFlags/Prefetch in one CSV at the time KAPE was run.
Testing: ran it live via kape.exe --msource C: --mdest --module NirSoft_ExecutedProgramsList --debug against my own machine and got a real CSV back with 843 genuine executed-program records, file paths, last modified/created dates, file size, product/file version, company name, and last-executed timestamp where available, not a synthetic or empty test.
No existing module in the repo covers this tool.
Checklist:
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