August 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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Vista SP1..

It is not the first OS service pack ever, but is eagerly awaited by many as a panacea to all Vista ills. It won't be, of course, any more than Windows 2000 or Windows XP SP1 was. Windows 2000 saw four service packs in it's life, and so far there...

Published Wed, Aug 29 2007 19:45 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, SP1
nVidia Video drivers 163.44 Beta..

The nVidia video driver situation appears to be finally getting 'beta' with this latest release. I ran Age of Empires III last night, and while I did not notice more detail necessarily, the game ran smoother than it has done since making the transition...

Published Wed, Aug 22 2007 6:42 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, drivers
AC97 Sound Drivers - Vista 32bit..

Just recently, I noticed that sound through my speakers and headset was a little 'buzzy'. I don't remember doing anything to make it so, no updates or anything like that but, suddenly listening to music was not a pleasureable experience. So...

Published Thu, Aug 16 2007 11:23 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, drivers, Hardware
Vista Updates..

There are two Vista updates available now in the wild that, at the time of writing, have yet to appear in WU. The two KB's, 938194 and 938979, cover performance and stability issues, one in particular being file copy/transfer speeds across local drives...

Published Thu, Aug 9 2007 6:30 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista

August 2007 - Mike's Window

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