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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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Stardock’s Start8 menu for Windows 8 is getting better. You now have the ability to ‘pin to the Start menu’ just like Windows 7.

All about the look and features here.. http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/features.asp

And guess what? It is in beta presently, but the full version only costs $4.99 which is well worth it in my opinion. Imagine getting all of the benefits of Windows 8 and a usable Start Menu too.

Despite ultimately having to pay for Start8, this could be the deal maker re Windows 8 success not only at home level, but also enterprise.

The way that Start8 is shaping up, for me it is one major hurdle crossed. Now, if Sam W Tucker was to develop a version of Network Monitor which would work in Windows 8, I could pretty much forego anything else that I have found not to work in Windows 8 but did work in Windows 7..

Network Monitor here.. http://samwtucker.com/NetworkMonitor


Posted Sat, Sep 29 2012 9:34 by Mike Hall
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