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Windows 8..
Mike's Window

A commonly held 'view.. '

 "Well, it worked in Windows 95!"

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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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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 method.

If I don’t get what I want from it..

I do not consider the Windows 8 desktop to be anything more than a sham re desktop computer use presently. Windows 7 took away the classic menu functions which for desktop users like me was everything. Now Windows 8 is taking the Start menu away almost completely.

I will continue to use Windows 7 until such time as Microsoft release an OS which fits the desktop environment , OR I will look for an alternative which still caters for desktop machines where keyboard and mouse are the primary inputs.

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Just remember that we all don’t just browse, send messages in SMS text speak, or sit in a comfy chair reading a novel or great literary works. I spend hours per day, as do many others, trying to impart ways in which other people will get a good computing experience. Please do NOT take that away from me or the people I try to help..


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

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Anonymous wrote re: Windows 8..
on Thu, Oct 13 2011 22:50

good

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