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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/

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.. is on it’s way. February 22nd is the release day for the general public, and today is the release date to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Here is the public link.. 

http://windows.microsoft.com/installwindows7sp1

Presently, the page shows the MS Corporate background and a ‘Page cannot be found’ message in the area where the body text and download button will appear.

Windows 7 SP1 brings bug fixes, security patches etc., but don’t expect any new features because there aren’t any. Windows 7 should already be working ok for you and if it isn’t, that will teach you to install it on some old piece of junk, or install ‘old as dirt’ software. Smile


Posted Wed, Feb 16 2011 17:04 by Mike Hall
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