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Ultimate Extras.. Part 2
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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..

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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When I heard that some were coming back, I can’t say that I was over the moon, but thought that Tinker might make a welcome change from FreeCell. So I waited and waited, checking Windows Update for it, but alas nothing appeared.

Then I found out that I have to join Games For Windows Live, which I duly did, but every time I tried to log in, it sent the rest of the network offline.

ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS PLAY TINKER, JUST LIKE I USED TO PLAY IT IN VISTA.

I have uninstalled all of the crap and will continue to play FreeCell. Thank you for the understanding, but I was quite happy playing Tinker OFFLINE and without the need to share my profile with all and sundry while doing so.

Posted Mon, Jan 4 2010 17:28 by Mike Hall
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Jen wrote printing from VISTA 64 through XP on home network
on Mon, Jan 4 2010 21:50

Mike - I just used your tips to a user (after random search on Google) for connecting to a printer from a VISTA 64 OS on a home network. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. We live on a lake and I threatened my husband that I was throwing his new machine (VISTA 64? What was he thinking???) in the icy cold waters.But, thanks to you, we are printing through the XP machine that I type this message on to not one, but 2 printers. HAPPY NEW YEAR to you!

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