February 2010 - 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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It’s all so dull..

Yes, Windows 7 is dull. Once that you become used to the look, some of which is extremely dull, Windows 7 is so boring to the point where you forget about it. Wait before you jump on me. An operating system is not meant to be invasive or in your face...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2010 13:16 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Windows, General
Noisy case fans..

There is not much worse in life than sitting beside a PC tower which has noisy fans. It is like living next to a hamster, continual squeaking, droning, air rush sounds in the not-so-background. It is time to do something about it. If you have to change...

Published Sat, Feb 20 2010 11:12 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Hardware, General, Miantenance
Game controllers

These two controllers will plug ‘n play in Windows 7. 1. Saitek ST90 joystick - 2. Saitek P880 gamepad I haven’t played games with them because I have no high end games which run in Windows 7, but the drivers for both devices load automatically and both...

Published Thu, Feb 11 2010 14:52 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Hardware, Windows 7
Problems with sleep

If you are a dual monitor user and you have Ultramon 3.0.8 installed, you may find that your computer has a reluctance to stay in sleep mode. Go to here for the latest version which appears to overcome resistance to sleeping.. http://www.realtimesoft...

Published Thu, Feb 11 2010 9:49 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, XP, drivers, Windows 7, Upgrading
As the computing world settles into four core..

.. I am just getting Dual Core. My venerable Biostar T6100-939 now sports an X2 4400 + in place of the single core 3500 + Installation It was a good time to clean out all of the dust collection areas inside the case, including the CPU fan and heatsink...

Published Wed, Feb 10 2010 19:19 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Hardware, Upgrading
Anybody remember ‘Judy Patch’?

I have been trawling through some of my saved URL’s and came across this one. At the time, it was difficult to determine if the website was for real or just an attempt at comedy. Personally, I believe that it was constructed in all good faith that it...

Published Tue, Feb 9 2010 12:24 by Mike Hall

Filed under: General, Humour
End of the line

Windows 7 RC users will get notification around Feb 15th that usage of the RC will come to an end.. Details here.. http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2010/02/01/important-reminder-regarding-expiration-of-the-windows-7-rc.aspx Users of Windows...

Published Tue, Feb 9 2010 10:20 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Windows, Lifecycle
Finally upgrading to Dual Core

My main production machine will be getting an upgrade very soon There will be no new mainboard because my 939 Biostar is ok, but the CPU is a lowly AMD 64 3500+ and the computer has struggled with Vista and Windows 7 multi-tasking. Don’t get me...

Published Tue, Feb 2 2010 22:31 by Mike Hall

Filed under: General, Upgrading

February 2010 - Mike's Window

A commonly held 'view.. '

MVP Award years

The original MVP logo

My Favourite Utilities

My Favourite Gadgets - Windows 7 and Vista only..

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Syndication

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Blog Archive List

It’s all so dull..

Noisy case fans..

Game controllers

Problems with sleep

As the computing world settles into four core..

Anybody remember ‘Judy Patch’?

End of the line

Finally upgrading to Dual Core