Some tools check the internet for a newer version when the tool is started.
On some computers this causes the tool to hang.
The internet check can be disabled in the options menu of the tool,
But the tool hangs before you can get there.

So here is a small program that can disable the internet version check for the tools.
Download: SetIChk.zip 197.769 bytes.

Technical story:
I use the URLMon interfaces IBindStatusCallback, IMoniker and IBindCtx with the URLMon functions CreateURLMoniker, CreateAsyncBindCtx and RegisterBindStatusCallback.
This way a version info file of 4 bytes is retreived through the Microsoft Internet Explorer.
I don't have to deal with proxy/firewall setting because Internet Explorer takes care of that.
But on some computers this causes the calling process to hang.
The check is already called in a separate thread, but it still causes the process to hang.

The check is only executed if a registry key is set to true.
SetIChk disables the check by setting the registry key to false.