How to check the shutter count on a Nikon D5000?

How to check the shutter count on a Nikon D5000? - 1

Go here:
http://www.nikonshuttercount.com/

If you want more than a shutter cycle count, like the cameras settings, shutter speed, lens aperture, ISO, focal length, contrast, saturation or sharpness you have added using the cameras menu.
The name of the "artist" as well as the photo program used to process the RAW image files will be listed as well
download Opanda IExif 2.3. It can read all the date written to your image files.

Shutter count is found in the EXIF meta data of your images. You can use anything that reads the full EXIF data like Opanda or EXIFTool.