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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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Times and dates – and everything in-between

I was in MS Answers just now, answering a query about NeoTrace and Windows 7. It is a utility from the 90’s which traces across nodes between one’s home base and a remote computer elsewhere, but it requires longitude and latitude co-ordinates to recognise...

Published Fri, Mar 2 2012 13:09 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Websites
FrontPage and the dreaded FPSE’s - You can finally leave them behind..

Microsoft’s FrontPage in it’s various guises has been a godsend for many people. It has enabled wannabe website owners to create something reasonably meaningful without having to learn the conventions of HTML, PNP or any of the other obscure conventions...

Published Thu, Jan 5 2012 11:18 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Expression Web, FrontPage, Websites
Easy website creation..

With no new release of FrontPage since 2003, Microsoft have no application capable of producing a website that just anybody can use. Microsoft Expression and Sharepoint Designer 2007/2010 require HTML and CSS knowledge way above the level of amateur website...

Published Mon, Apr 11 2011 12:19 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Applications, Websites

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Times and dates – and everything in-between

FrontPage and the dreaded FPSE’s - You can finally leave them behind..

Easy website creation..