May 2012 - 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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A hard drive for Windows 8..

I have an old XP computer which has been behind some other stuff of mine. In it is a Western Digital 160gb IDE drive, made in March 2005, and presently all that I have on which to install the Windows 8 Beta. I see no point in re-installing the Consumer...

Published Mon, May 28 2012 14:12 by Mike Hall
Cisco DPC3825.. an update..

Wireless connection integrity via the D-Link G132 USB adapter has been really good but the connection strength was not good at all, fluctuating between 50 and 66%. I have enabled the internal Realtek 8191SE adapter again, updating to the latest drivers...

Published Sun, May 27 2012 17:48 by Mike Hall

Filed under: networks, Annoyances, Wi-Fi
No more playing with Windows 8 CP..

I booted the drive with the Windows 8 installation a couple of days ago and all it wanted to do was disk check all three drives. Eventually, Windows 8 started and I played around for a while. Today, I attempted the same and everything went to plan except...

Published Mon, May 21 2012 16:39 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Hardware, Windows 8
A new connection..

I have traded in my old Scientific Atlanta DPC2100 cable modem. Rogers have a new modem which will allow for a nominal 18mb download on their cable networks, and my old modem can’t do that apparently. although I have seen it reach that level...

Published Sat, May 19 2012 23:43 by Mike Hall

Filed under: networks, Hardware, ISPs
It’s an oldie..

.. but it works. I was asked to scan and send by email a photo which was taken a few years ago. It had been in a glass frame, and when removed for scanning, tiny bits of the picture were left on the glass. It wasn’t too bad but I wanted to improve it...

Published Sun, May 13 2012 17:23 by Mike Hall

Filed under: software, Graphics
All set up and ready to go.. down?

If you entered computing during the XP age, you missed out on all of the fun. Here is a piece of computer world history for you.. The title of the video says it all.. This spawned more humour like this photo on the right. It was particularly popular with...

Published Sat, May 12 2012 17:36 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Hardware, Windows 8, PC
Pssssttt..

There is a Quick launch toolbar on Windows 8 but keep it quiet in case MS take it out as they did the hack to dump the Metro-o-o-o interface. Between this and Vi-Start or Start-X, Windows 8 might approach being a desktop OS after all. Vi-Start and Start...

Published Fri, May 4 2012 0:04 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Windows 7, My Opinion, Windows 8

May 2012 - 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

A hard drive for Windows 8..

Cisco DPC3825.. an update..

No more playing with Windows 8 CP..

A new connection..

It’s an oldie..

All set up and ready to go.. down?

Pssssttt..