November 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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Outlook 2010 add-ins..

How to make it more reliable.. History: I was having problems starting Outlook on occasion, and I was having to run SCANPST too much. Looking at the add-ins (File > Options > Add-ins): COM add-in for MS Outlook Hotmail Connector = Not required....

Published Sun, Nov 21 2010 8:18 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Mail, Performance, Applications
The UK Shell Lottery

ooOO.. I won, I won. The nice lady at the Shell gas station here must have picked up on my accent and sent whatever was required to a gas station in the UK.. OOoo Meanwhile, back on Terra Firma, here is a copy of the winning notification.. ----------...

Published Thu, Nov 18 2010 9:10 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Spyware, Scamware
nVidia 260.99 drivers

The installation progressed without incident and, at the end of it all, I ran MSTS in 1024 x 768 and the game no longer filled the 19’ widescreen. So I rolled back to the 258 driver, and it still wouldn’t fill the screen. I also picked up another problem...

Published Wed, Nov 17 2010 9:58 by Mike Hall

Filed under: drivers, Hardware
Backups.. make it easy on yourself..

Ever heard of Genie-Soft? They make backup software for home and business, and I am going to let you into a secret. Genie Timeline has been released as a free version. It lacks some of the functions of Timeline Home 2.1, but if you are looking to backup...

Published Fri, Nov 5 2010 18:29 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Utilities, Backup, Windows 7
More blackholes..

eHow: Great advice given on how to rid yourself of Uniblue Registry Booster http://www.ehow.com/how_5766115_remove-uniblue-registry-booster.html A pity about the ads for stuff every bit as bad as UBR.. ...................................................

Published Mon, Nov 8 2010 10:31 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Scamware
The Windows Experience Index. Are you happy?

It’s only numbers, you know. This is mine and as you can see, there are no 7.9’s here. I almost have a 5.0 WEI which is not bad considering that the top mark for a system of this age is only 5.9. Not too shabby for a motherboard which dates back to 2003...

Published Thu, Nov 4 2010 11:24 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Upgrading, WEI

November 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..

Links

Syndication

Recent Posts

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Archives

Blog Archive List

Outlook 2010 add-ins..

The UK Shell Lottery

nVidia 260.99 drivers

Backups.. make it easy on yourself..

More blackholes..

The Windows Experience Index. Are you happy?