How-To Geek

Mike Halsey is a Microsoft MVP who - among other things - contributes to a wonderful tech site called gHacks.com

Halsy is also the author of a very useful eBook titled, "Windows 7 Power Users Guide"

Originally, the book was available for download by purchasing it - however today Mike Halsy has decided to make it available for free. The book covers a wide range of topics - such as how to install, setup and get started - all the way to some very useful tips, tricks and "hidden secrets".

Anybody who may be interested can learn more about the book, as well as access the free download link, via the gHacks website, where Mike Halsey makes the offer:

http://www.ghacks.net/2011/05/.....-now-free/
Hope some people find this useful.

Thank you :)

It's great to see that people feel this post deserves a sticky.

I have one request for the moderators here , if possible.

I misspelled Mike Halsey's name a couple of times in my original (Halsy)

Also - I wrote that the website on which he posts is gHacks.com - when actually its gHacks.net

The link I provided is correct, however - if I'm going to post Mike Halsey's name, at least I should have spelled it correctly. If a moderator can correct this, or re-activate my editing privileges I'd really appreciate it :)

Hope lots of people enjoy the eBook.

@LH

I'm not exactly sure what you mean.

My initial post appears above, at the top of this thread.

The invalid link was corrected by Mike as per my request here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/forum.....?replies=6

I was just embarrassed by having misspelled Mike Halsey's name, and also the incorrect domain extension for gHacks (.net - NOT . .com) however, the corrected link will take you to the right place, so I guess it's not such a big deal.

If there's anything else I can do, please let me know.

My apologies for the confusion.

Like here, but make it your own post, and edit as necessary,
http://www.howtogeek.com/forum.....ost-215690

Mark. No problem with his links at my end. Must be the apple juice.

Mark. I try all links. And again, I say not a problem at my end.

Yep. No problem there ?

Try this:

It's a clean, direct link to Mike Halsey's own personal website, where he offers the eBook as a free download in PDF format.

http://www.thelongclimb.com/

I really have no clue as to why people are getting red flags - but hopefully this will solve the problem.

My sincerest apologies to all who may have had any troubles regarding this.

Mike -

Thank you very much for your gracious comment. I've only been here a short while and want to very careful not to break any rules or cause problems.

You're absolutely right - it is a shame that hosting sites don't do a better job at policing themselves in this regard - which actually may be one of the reasons the hosting site for HTG's graphics was blocked on the recent MVP Hosts file, which we discussed in another thread.

A site like Photobucket will probably allow these instances to fall through the cracks, in deference to their larger business picture..I suppose.

Perhaps you could bring this to the direct attention of Mike Halsey via a contact link on his website ? It might be worth a try.