December 2008 - 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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What is the first thing that you will do when you power up your nice new shiny Vista computer?

If you are a beginner, you might: look for and play Freecell look for and play Solitaire If you are a fairly accomplished Solitaire player, you might: install Yahoo or Windows Live Messenger so that you can start chatting again get somebody to install...

Published Mon, Dec 22 2008 19:51 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, Windows, General
Obsessions..

If I was the type of computer user who can only have the absolute best and nothing else will do, I probably couldn't afford one. I can understand a gamer wanting the best because every 1/000th of a second counts (apparently). I can understand a video...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2008 12:10 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Windows, An aside, General
Vista SP2 Beta 1..

I downloaded it last night, and installed it just a few minutes ago. The install process was surprisingly short and painless, the machine booting to how I remember it before running the update. Something I always do before running any major service pack...

Published Thu, Dec 4 2008 10:10 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, General, Service Packs
Windows 7 Beta 1..

.. is earmarked for release on or around January 13, 2009 after having been previewed at CES a week earlier. TechNet and MSDN download sites should get it at around the same time. I have a feeling that both servers will be put under much strain as news...

Published Wed, Dec 3 2008 19:38 by Mike Hall

Filed under: General, Windows 7

December 2008 - Mike's Window

A commonly held 'view.. '

MVP Award years

The original MVP logo

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My Favourite Gadgets - Windows 7 and Vista only..

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