October 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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Updating software..

An innocuous title for the most part, but not when discussing LG software updates. As if I did not have enough problems getting LG software to work initially, I fell for the ‘upgrade your software’ ploy. It wasn’t anything to do with...

Published Fri, Oct 28 2011 10:37 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Windows 7, Device drivers
LG cellphone software - an update

Good news finally. It is now possible to download and install the LG support software and PC Suite onto a machine running Windows 7 64-bit. Not only does it download, it even installs and works after installation. Maybe my email to LG woke somebody up...

Published Sat, Oct 22 2011 8:59 by Mike Hall

Filed under: software, compatibility, Windows 7, Win 7 64
Windows 8..

What I want from it.. A proper working desktop version, complete with proper working start menu and desktop front end,. It’s that simple. My computer is not the size of a phone or small book, and for what I do, keyboard and mouse is still the best input...

Published Wed, Oct 12 2011 9:14 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Windows 7, My Opinion, Windows 8
Steve Jobs.. 1955 - 2011

Co-founder of Apple computers along with Steve Wozniak. One of the four most famous names in the world of personal computing, Apple didn’t do so well after he was ousted in 1985, and his return to Apple later on took the company as high as any company...

Published Thu, Oct 6 2011 7:50 by Mike Hall
Windows Gadgets..

If you go to the Microsoft Gadget Gallery now, you will find many less gadgets available. This is not to say that the gadgets no longer exist, more that Microsoft are no longer providing the service as was. What few gadgets are on the current gadget page...

Published Wed, Oct 5 2011 11:07 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, Windows 7, Gadgets

October 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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Updating software..

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