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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..

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I did something recently that I have never done before. I used the ‘disable’ function in WinPatrol to eliminate some start-up items. For the most part, they were the ones which auto start but don’t show in the notification area, so I would lose nothing, yes?

NO!

I knew that the problem wasn’t related to the installation of the SP2 Beta because everything worked directly afterwards. I just could not understand what I could have installed that would stop the onscreen keyboard notices popping up on demand.

So I visited the keyboard and mouse hole in Control Panel, looked around, did nothing because there was no option to do anything, and guess what? The pop-ups returned. Problem fixed?

NO!

Anyway, I decided to have a root around in WinPatrol, and the rest is history. The start-up entries for Intellipoint and Intellitype are responsible for the onscreen notifications..


Posted Mon, Jan 5 2009 13:39 by Mike Hall
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