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A day in the life..
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..

Links

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Syndication

Having promised a 24hr turn around

No original disks.. surprise surprise

Finger marks all over the screen.. again

How do stores get away with selling underpowered junk?

Slow?? It doesn’t even boot !!!!

Oh cool.. the ‘you may have been scammed’ graphic

Ha ha.. soopadoopavirusXPkilla. That will be fun to remove

No disks, no obvious back up device. Why do I have to look for interminable masses of family pics?

If I was to split the charge for the job into an hourly rate, tea pickers in the 19th century were getting more than I am..

Grrrrrrrrrrr..

24 hours later

OK.. all done. Your operating system is no longer ‘illegal’. By the way, who installed it before?

Yes, all of your pictures are safe and sound. Have you thought about copying them to a CD/DVD? You should..

No, its ok. I always stay up into the early hours of the morning.

You should be good to go for at least a year, I have installed good products to keep your computer safe.

oO please please please be good to go for another year Oo


Posted Fri, Nov 27 2009 8:12 by Mike Hall
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Todd S. wrote re: A day in the life..
on Fri, Nov 27 2009 14:22

This is hilarious!  Especially "No, its ok. I always stay up into the early hours of the morning."  Thank you!

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