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My philosophy

Mike's Window

A commonly held 'view.. '

 "Well, it worked in Windows 95!"

MVP Award years

2005 - 2006 - 2007

2008 - 2009 - 2010

2011 - 2012 - 2013

The original MVP logo

My Favourite Utilities

Speedfan is a great hardware monitor which can automatically control fan speeds, warn when temperatures are rising in the case, and do a SMART scan of your hard drives. A 'must have'.. http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php 

Piriform Speccy tells you what is inside the box and with great accuracy.. http://www.piriform.com/speccy

Networx shows download/upload bandwidth used.. http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/

Piriform Recuva is probably the best file recovery utility around and is free too.. http://www.piriform.com/recuva 

Treesize shows you what you have got, where it is, and how much space it is all using.. http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

Windows 8 alternative start menus.. Classic Shell.. http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

Stardock Start8.. http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/

EaseUS Partition Manager is the best free utility of its type..   http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm

YoWindow, a weather utility which appears to work with the Windows 8 desktop.. http://yowindow.com/

My Favourite Gadgets - Windows 7 and Vista only..

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If your computer is getting old..

You can waste hours and even days trying to get something to work, but working with physically defective and/or old hardware and incompatible software will always end in tears.

If you pick up a virus/Trojan/worm..

Eliminating virus infections is not as easy as it once was. Virus writers aim for maximum operating system destruction these days. You can be 'macho' about them and try to get rid of them piece by piece, or you can re-install.

A re-install is NOT the easy way out, but it is the best way to ensure that there is no virus infection left in the computer. This is particularly important if you fall victim to a 'telephone' scam and allow the caller remote access to your computer.

Staying out of trouble..

If you want trouble free computing, don't believe 'too good to be true' claims, don't mess with registry or system settings, and don't overclock your hardware.

Note that the weakest part of a computer system is not always an internal part.. :-)

I have been a Microsoft MVP since 2005..

Have a great day..    

"The trouble with 'marvels' of modern technology is that they require 'marbles' if one is to realise the full potential"


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