February 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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Wireless Networking Part 2c..

The good news is that D-Link Inc have every intention of releasing a Vista driver for the venerable DWL G132 USB LAN adapter............................ eventually. I would have posted the part of the e-mail I received that discloses this information...

Published Tue, Feb 20 2007 8:49 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, networks, drivers
Wireless Networking Part 2b..

.. or in this case, NOT 2b.. The D-Link DWL G132 USB wireless LAN adapter has no native Vista support, no driver on the supplied CD that works, and no hint of a Vista driver on the D-Link home page. This is sad really, because the device is available...

Published Sun, Feb 11 2007 10:13 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, networks, drivers
Wireless Networking Part 2..

When I promised to report on the aftermath of installing a D-Link DWL G520 (series B) wireless PCI card into a Vista machine, I fully expected to write in similar style as I did to D-Link support, having had nothing but trouble when installed into an...

Published Sat, Feb 10 2007 7:31 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, XP, networks, drivers
Microsoft Input Devices.. an update..

A hardware update for Microsoft wireless input devices has finally been released that fixes the problem of the screensaver not activating after the time period set by the user. A visit to Windows Update will see the fix downloaded and installed, no reboot...

Published Tue, Feb 6 2007 10:12 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista
nVidia driver update..

DON'T DO IT! Don't update nVidia graphics drivers. It doesn't matter that you don't have full functionality with the basic driver that Vista first supplied (what am I saying?). It just doesn't, because the alternative is games that don't run well at all...

Published Sun, Feb 4 2007 8:17 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, drivers
Wireless Networking..

I installed a D-Link DWL G520 wireless network card into my main production computer this morning. All was much as one would expect. The side cover came away painlessly, and the PCI card slotted in without undue effort. It is a little closer to the intake...

Published Sat, Feb 3 2007 12:17 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, XP, networks

February 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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Wireless Networking Part 2c..

Wireless Networking Part 2b..

Wireless Networking Part 2..

Microsoft Input Devices.. an update..

nVidia driver update..

Wireless Networking..