January 2007 - Mike's Window

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..

Gas Buddy.. http://www.londongasprices.com/VistaGadget.aspx

NetMeter.. http://addgadget.com/

Network Monitor.. http://samwtucker.com/

Asst'd gadgets.. http://gallery.djinngo.com/gallery/index.html

Weather fun.. http://yowindow.com/

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Compatible software..

Further to an earlier posting, Stickies v6 is now available from http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/download.html .. and all is well. Microsoft Combat Flighter Sim 3 installed ok and works well. Even taking into account the basic NVidia driver, I...

Published Wed, Jan 24 2007 10:15 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista
Nvidia RTM Driver - 32 bit for Vista v. 6000

Nvidia released a new WHQL video driver, version 97.46 on Jan 5th. It fixes the error message sometimes produced by Vista when booting to desktop that informed of a recovery process in progress. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_97.46.html The...

Published Sat, Jan 6 2007 10:08 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista
IE7 'masquerade' ..

As with all upgraded versions of Internet Explorer, some websites have been unable to be displayed because they require a specific version of IE. Run this little 'fix' that enables IE7 to 'fool' websites into believing that it is IE6. The link will take...

Published Wed, Jan 3 2007 8:04 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, XP, IE7
Spyware Removal..

Spyware has become a major player in compromising computers, and the situation is not going to get better any time soon. It can introduce viruses, trojans and worms, and attempt to send out information about you. It is the unwelcome guest and needs to...

Published Wed, Jan 3 2007 7:14 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, XP, Spyware

January 2007 - Mike's Window

A commonly held 'view.. '

MVP Award years

The original MVP logo

My Favourite Utilities

My Favourite Gadgets - Windows 7 and Vista only..

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Compatible software..

Nvidia RTM Driver - 32 bit for Vista v. 6000

IE7 'masquerade' ..

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