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"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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Words do no justice..

.. well not printable words suitable for a public place anyway.. If you are a bit upset at the prospect of having no proper desktop, take some solace in the newly designed METRO styled Windows logo. Tada!! Nice eh.. some people are drooling over this...

Published Fri, Feb 24 2012 11:20 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Windows, My Opinion, Humour, Windows 8
A case for Windows 8..

A desktop case, that is.. I was just looking through the latest edition of CPU User, and I came across an advert for the perfect Windows 8 desktop case. Like Windows 8, it lacks some of the more traditional elements that we have come to expect. What it...

Published Thu, Feb 2 2012 12:57 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Hardware, Humour
Readying for Windows 8 Beta.

While I was looking into the kernel power error, I did some work on tidying the cables inside, essentially to free up a SATA power cable for the drive that will hold the Windows 8 beta. I have a Seagate 160gb SATA drive which has been pushed through tests...

Published Sat, Jan 21 2012 21:39 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Hardware, Humour, Windows 8
The tree jumped out at me..

I installed Windows 7 last week and now my motherboard is fried and I don’t know what to do because I have OEM Windows 7 and I don’t know if I can activate it on the new motherboard which is tons faster than the old one that I couldn’t get an exact replacement...

Published Sat, Jan 15 2011 23:16 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Windows 7, Humour
It may be coincidental..

.. that you have come across this scenario at work. You may have even been a player.. :-) Cartoon courtesy of Scott Adams, Dilbert’s creator and mentor.. for more Dilbert humour, click on the link.. http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-04-24

Published Sat, Apr 24 2010 11:21 by Mike Hall

Filed under: General, Humour
Anybody remember ‘Judy Patch’?

I have been trawling through some of my saved URL’s and came across this one. At the time, it was difficult to determine if the website was for real or just an attempt at comedy. Personally, I believe that it was constructed in all good faith that it...

Published Tue, Feb 9 2010 12:24 by Mike Hall

Filed under: General, Humour

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MVP Award years

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Words do no justice..

A case for Windows 8..

Readying for Windows 8 Beta.

The tree jumped out at me..

It may be coincidental..

Anybody remember ‘Judy Patch’?