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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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I received an email yesterday from those nice people at PC Tools. I know that it was a good offer, maybe a reduced purchase price, because the email was headed thus:

‘Restore PC performance with Registry Mechanic 2012’

You can feel your pulse racing already, can’t you. I know I could.

So why did I have to refuse the offer? Quite simple really. It wouldn’t stay out of my Outlook junk folder long enough for me to click on any of the links. I dragged it into the inbox and before I could click on the inbox, it was back in the junk folder.

I have my junk filter set for just above ‘only people in my address book’. The junk filter is working well, and I say thanks to whoever updates it. All junk filters should be this good. Much of the crap which some are tempted to install would be wiped off the face of the IT world stage.


Posted Sun, Mar 4 2012 9:49 by Mike Hall
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