May 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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My production machine so far..

.. is working as expected. The Gigabyte GA880GM-UD2H has no faults or problems after installation. Performance is generally way better than the dual core ‘939’ system that it replaced, but some items still take their time appearing, especially Network...

Published Mon, May 30 2011 11:37 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Hardware, My Opinion, Performance
We have been spotted..

Question: Why are you wearing leopard skins? Answer: Curses, so that is why we are spotted. Joking apart, we really have been spotted. Read this.. http://www.businessinsider.com/why-microsoft-is-3x-better-than-apple-for-customer-support-2011-5 Who needs...

Published Wed, May 25 2011 16:10 by Mike Hall

Filed under: My Opinion, MVPs
Internet Explorer 9 Tracking Protection..

So that you know what I am writing about, IE9 tracking protection appears like this in the URL box…. I am all for security and protection, but it can get in the way sometimes, and IE9’s tracking protection is getting in the way. If you roll your...

Published Mon, May 23 2011 1:37 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Security, IE 9
Microsoft Hardware.. the website

This is the new look website.. http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/mice This is the driver support for the MS Laser Desktop 6000 set.. http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/d/wireless-laser-desktop-6000 The drivers on my system were the latest at...

Published Wed, May 18 2011 22:54 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Hardware, Mouse, Device drivers, Keyboard
Cooler Master CM690 II ‘Advanced’

I rehoused all of the internal parts which make up my production computer today. In place of the no name case is a Cooler Master CM690 II ‘Advanced’, http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/product.php?category_id=19&product_id=2970 What I like about...

Published Tue, May 10 2011 23:52 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Hardware, Review
MS Picture-It users..

If you have recently bought a new Windows PC or upgraded from an earlier Windows, you will know that Picture-It is not compatible with Windows 7. It gets worse. The format that Picture-It uses to save as a file is ‘.mix’, one of Microsoft’s own...

Published Wed, May 4 2011 19:53 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Utilities, Windows 7, Applications

May 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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Blog Archive List

My production machine so far..

We have been spotted..

Internet Explorer 9 Tracking Protection..

Microsoft Hardware.. the website

Cooler Master CM690 II ‘Advanced’

MS Picture-It users..