September 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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Windows 8 Preview..

I lost it and it will not re-install. With the problems I had with VirtuaBox and now VMWare 8, I am tempted to give the preview a miss completely. or maybe set up a hard drive all of its own. Trouble is that I do not have a hard drive kicking around presently...

Published Fri, Sep 30 2011 16:06 by Mike Hall

Filed under: General, Windows 8
Windows 8 Preview.. the FIRST impression..

Wow, it’s an operating system. Cool.. The new GUI.. Like playing an intransigent sliding block puzzle which looks like a ‘Craps’ table. Make the icons smaller and move them around. They move but not always to where you expect or hope. Useless for desktop...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2011 21:59 by Mike Hall

Filed under: General, My Opinion, Windows 8
Speedfan – Why you should install it..

When you have a fast system, processes can be running in the background which you don’t notice. A few days ago, I was looking through Programs and Features for junk to uninstall, and I came across Yahoo Toolbar. It had to go, especially as last time there...

Published Tue, Sep 20 2011 13:32 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Utilities, Performance
Editing photos..

All I wanted to do was crop a few photos taken by a cellphone camera. There was a time when any photo editor would have made the task simple, but not anymore. Windows Live Photogallery – a freebie I found out how to set the crop area, but could find no...

Published Mon, Sep 19 2011 23:03 by Mike Hall

Filed under: General, Applications
Silenx EFZ-120HA4.. a design flaw

This is the CPU fan/heatsink that I installed a while back. It does a great job, BUT.. There is a design flaw and no obvious way around it. Look closely at the image and you will see that the fan is larger than the heatsink. Behind the mounting holes...

Published Fri, Sep 16 2011 9:51 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Hardware
ISP discounts..

When organising member discounts with an ISP operative, do NOT believe a word they tell you. I intercepted in April what would be a higher charge in May of this year, a $40 increase over what I had been paying. I was told by the Rogers operative at the...

Published Fri, Sep 9 2011 16:19 by Mike Hall

Filed under: General, ISPs
Claiming prizes online..

If it sounds too good to be true, it IS too good to be true. “Win an iPad2. All you have to do is fill in your name and address such that we can send it to you, oh and include your cellphone number such that TriviaQuiz can send you premium charge text...

Published Fri, Sep 9 2011 8:38 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Scamware

September 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

Windows 8 Preview..

Windows 8 Preview.. the FIRST impression..

Speedfan – Why you should install it..

Editing photos..

Silenx EFZ-120HA4.. a design flaw

ISP discounts..

Claiming prizes online..