April 2011 - 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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nVidia drivers – removal

If you are replacing a motherboard which has an nVidia chipset and/or nVidia graphics for a motherboard which has an ATI or Intel chipset, you will quickly find out that nVidia drivers are not so easy to uninstall. The normal procedure through ...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 6:37 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Utilities, General, Windows 7
I upgraded my hardware..

Over the last three or four days days, I have been upgrading my production machine. The aging Biostar T6100-939, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ and 4gb RAM has been struggling to keep up with all that I am doing.. The system is still in the original case, and...

Published Sat, Apr 16 2011 14:01 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Hardware, Windows 7
Easy website creation..

With no new release of FrontPage since 2003, Microsoft have no application capable of producing a website that just anybody can use. Microsoft Expression and Sharepoint Designer 2007/2010 require HTML and CSS knowledge way above the level of amateur website...

Published Mon, Apr 11 2011 12:19 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Applications, Websites
Bing bunged..

When a Brit bungs something, he/she flings/tosses an object away or towards somebody or something. Well, this ex-pat Brit has bunged Bing towards obscurity for now. I am sick to death of the Microsoft ads appearing because Bing has nothing better to offer...

Published Tue, Apr 5 2011 12:36 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Bing, Browsers
In the interests of the non-technical..

.. and maybe many others.. RE. OS upgrades.. Microsoft, please stop producing ‘Upgrade only’ disks for operating systems. Far too many have problems because what they are upgrading can be so flawed. Also, the practice of allowing users to download upgrades...

Published Mon, Apr 4 2011 12:35 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Utilities, Upgrading

April 2011 - 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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nVidia drivers – removal

I upgraded my hardware..

Easy website creation..

Bing bunged..

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