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A message for all visitors to my website:


URGENT APPEAL FOR SUPPORT

Please consider donating - so these projects, including Revert8Plus, can continue to be developed

I’ve been developing tools to simplify your PC since 2022, and during this time every tool has been free to download, and I intend for this to continue. Developing these projects, however, takes a lot of time and commitment., and I assumed that, after a year or so, monetary returns would start to trickle in, to help cover basic living expenses. Yet sadly this never happened.

I’m happy to say that my website has grown significantly over the past couple of years, and now attracts over 150K monthly page views. Yet, I discovered that most good ad networks are unwilling to approve sites with fewer than 1M page views per month. So, whilst my site has been displaying Carbon Ads for the past few months, the CPM is so low that it brings barely $10 each month, which is quite sad. My YouTube channel brings equally small returns, at around $14 monthly, and sponsors are not particularly interested in channels with fewer than 10K subscribers.

So sadly I'm now struggling to stay afloat, and struggling to even cover housing costs, which is a big concern both personally and for the future of my projects. I have over the past few weeks continued developing several projects, including a tool to easily install Windows 7 on modern hardware, and the long awaited Revert8Plus v5. I’m concerned however that, without funding or a place to live, these might never get finished.

I love developing these projects, and am delighted that so many people are now interested in my work, and using and enjoying the tools. As my site continues to grow, it will become easier to attract funding support via good ad networks and sponsors. Meanwhile, I’m working on alternative ways to bring long term financial support for my site and projects, yet these will take some time to implement, hopefully before the end of this year.

So at the moment, there are few options left. I don’t want to resort to using bad ad networks with their annoying pop ups, or other user-hostile ways of monetization, as I have always tried to produce user-friendly content. So I’ve decided to ask directly here, hoping some of you might offer your support to help me through these next couple of months. If you feel you could donate, your contributions would give me time to finish and release my next couple of projects, and start alternative ways of funding my site – and so ensure a positive long term outcome.

So, to everyone who visits my site, if you have enjoyed my work, tools, tutorials or advice, I hope you might consider offering a donation at this very difficult time. It would make all the difference in the world. Please use the donate button on the right. Also, please share this page with anyone you know who might also be interested in supporting me at this time.

Thank you so much – and thanks a million to those of you who have already donated, it really helps.

Tech Stuff

Tech Stuff
Your PC, simplified
About Me
Hi, and welcome to my site. I’m Tech Stuff, the creator of Revert8Plus!

As a programmer and software developer, I’m always looking to develop tools to improve and simplify things, especially when these can be useful to others. Whilst the projects on this site cover all eras, there is greater focus on older systems, which I feel are generally more enjoyable to use, with their simple looking and better functioning designs.

Take a look at the left panel to navigate your way around this site!
Developing tools to simplify and enhance your PC

Improve the performance and user interface of your PC, with these software solutions. Tech Stuff develops a range of tools to help transform your current system, enabling more customisation and control over the set up of your PC. From installing updates on older systems and upgrading your OS, to restoring popular features and functions which have officially disappeared, you can configure your system to match your individual requirements.

Project news
  • UpDownTool has been released!
  • ChatDot now has a dark theme, among numerous other customisation options.
  • Numerous improvements have been made to ChatDot, including a settings manager, and partial support for servers spots
  • ChatDot's desktop client can now process logins successfully.
  • Got the login dialog for ChatDot's desktop client working.
  • Building a Windows desktop client for ChatDot.
  • Messages now wrap correctly on ChatDot.
  • Added Flying Windows to the site homepage.
  • Trying to figure out why symbol hooks end up causing a stack overflow.
  • Symbol downloading now mostly works in r8pv5. Turns out it was crashing because the input strings aren't null terminated.
  • Fixed path case sensitivity in r8pv5. This is rather an edge-case bug, but for some reason my development VM has System32 capitalised incorrectly, making it very obvious.
  • Making more progress on r8pv5 now that I've finally figured out how to get a debugger to work with it.
Project news
  • UpDownTool has been released!
  • ChatDot now has a dark theme, among numerous other customisation options.
  • Numerous improvements have been made to ChatDot, including a settings manager, and partial support for servers spots
  • ChatDot's desktop client can now process logins successfully.
  • Got the login dialog for ChatDot's desktop client working.
  • Building a Windows desktop client for ChatDot.
  • Messages now wrap correctly on ChatDot.
  • Added Flying Windows to the site homepage.
  • Trying to figure out why symbol hooks end up causing a stack overflow.
  • Symbol downloading now mostly works in r8pv5. Turns out it was crashing because the input strings aren't null terminated.
  • Fixed path case sensitivity in r8pv5. This is rather an edge-case bug, but for some reason my development VM has System32 capitalised incorrectly, making it very obvious.
  • Making more progress on r8pv5 now that I've finally figured out how to get a debugger to work with it.