March 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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Do you need Vista?

A good question, and the answer is a resounding 'YES'. Increased security is a must these days. Forget the older operating systems. Windows 3.1 and 95 are no longer relevant. Most home users of these operating systems never connected to the outside world...

Published Sun, Mar 18 2007 8:13 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, XP, Hardware, software, compatibility
Vista and Gateway Support..

Every morning, I look through various RSS feeds, news and technical, and then I 'hit' the MS public newsgroups. News is often soul destroying, technical sometimes goes way over my head, and newsgroup material is it's usual baffling self, a combination...

Published Fri, Mar 16 2007 6:42 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, drivers, Hardware, software, compatibility
Canon Lide and Vista..

Canon have now released an official Vista driver and ToolBox for the venerable Lide 30 (and all of the Lide range). The earlier XP drivers and ToolBox actually worked in Vista, and I notice that the version numbers for Vista and XP drivers are the same...

Published Thu, Mar 15 2007 7:31 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, XP, drivers, Hardware, compatibility
Vista OS Upgrades - General

You should have no major problems as long as you do some research.. However, some drivers that have been supplied for inclusion in the Vista installation are still in their infancy.. this applies particularly to video drivers.. some are better than others...

Published Sat, Mar 3 2007 9:50 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, XP, drivers, Hardware, software, compatibility
Microsoft Wireless Mouse and Keyboard revisited..

There is an optional update in Windows Update.. these are the details off of my own computer.. take a look at the URLs.. Microsoft - Other Hardware - HID Non-User Input Data Filter Installation date: ‎06/‎02/‎2007 10:57 Installation status: Successful...

Published Fri, Mar 2 2007 8:12 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, drivers, Hardware
Windows Live Messenger 8.1 (beta)

Vista users seem to be experiencing problems with Windows Live Messenger 8.1. From what I can gather, it is attributable to two things; DEP and Adobe Flash. So, what to do next.. Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet has this on her website.. The Microsoft-suggested...

Published Fri, Mar 2 2007 7:16 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista

March 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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Do you need Vista?

Vista and Gateway Support..

Canon Lide and Vista..

Vista OS Upgrades - General

Microsoft Wireless Mouse and Keyboard revisited..

Windows Live Messenger 8.1 (beta)