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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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ATI drivers for the HD 4000,3000, 2000

There is a new driver, dated 20/1/2013, on the ATI driver support page.. http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Legacy/Pages/legacy-radeonaiw-vista64.aspx I wish that I had a snapshot of the driver page when Windows 8 appeared. It was obvious that...

Published Wed, Jan 23 2013 8:18 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Windows 7, Windows 8, Device drivers
Try to fix one thing..

.. and it all goes wrong. I found a chipset driver on the Gigabyte website for my mobo, a GA880g, and thought that it may be a good plan to install it and maybe get beyond the involuntary shutdown issue. Ha.. first sign that it may all go wrong. The ...

Published Sat, Jan 5 2013 21:38 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Hardware, Miantenance, Windows 8, Device drivers
Windows 8 64-bit compatibility..

My external hardware devices.. D-Link DWL G-132 wireless 108G USB adapter is identified, installs without the need for any additional drivers and connects to the wireless network at 54mb, just as it did on Windows 7. The surprise is that it still works...

Published Tue, Nov 6 2012 22:08 by Mike Hall

Filed under: compatibility, Windows 8, Device drivers
Windows 8 drivers.. Graphics

If you had no Windows 7 support, you will get no Windows 8 support. ATI have Windows 8 drivers up and ready for the HD 7000, 600o and 5000. Conspicuous by their absence are the HD 4000, 3000 and 2000. Windows 8 has basic support for these, so don’t expect...

Published Fri, Oct 26 2012 9:12 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Windows 8, Device drivers
Windows 8 drivers..

In this case, Realtek HD Audio.. The symptoms.. Some media files played ok and some didn’t. YouTube files were worst hit, even ones that I had downloaded. Was IE10 the culprit? No, because playing YouTube stuff in Opera produced the same results. The...

Published Wed, Oct 24 2012 18:07 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Windows 8, Device drivers
AHCI can be a real pain

Did you know that an ISA video card, e.g. the old Trident cards from the early days, can put up a display on a screen which enables you to recover from a corrupted BIOS. The only problem is the complete and utter lack of an ISA slot in today’s PCs. And...

Published Sun, Apr 8 2012 23:07 by Mike Hall

Filed under: Vista, drivers, Windows 7, Windows 8, Device drivers, AHCI

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ATI drivers for the HD 4000,3000, 2000

Try to fix one thing..

Windows 8 64-bit compatibility..

Windows 8 drivers.. Graphics

Windows 8 drivers..

AHCI can be a real pain