"Well, it worked in Windows 95!"
2005 - 2006 - 2007
2008 - 2009 - 2010
2011 - 2012 - 2013
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/
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/
In light of the recent password scare re web based Messenger and mail accounts, change your passwords at your earliest convenience. That is another way of saying ‘NOW’..
Please note that you will have to log into your account with your old password initially..
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/edit/id_password/edit-13.html
https://account.live.com/changepassworddl.aspx
http://help.channels.aol.com/kjump.adp?articleId=218553
http://www.icq.com/support/security/icqlite/password.html
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6567