Are you joining the growing number of users who are a little despondent with the avalanche of additions that adorn their disc-burning suites these days? Cyberlink has your number. Because rather than follow the Nero or ...

Window Washer does three different things that can help with the housekeeping of your PC: it clears your Internet history, tidies up after less-than-thorough un-installations and wipes a hard drive completely clean. The program itself uses ...

As is now sadly the norm with seemingly every media-related program that we install onto our test machines, Nero 8 is keen, upon installation, to be the default app for every form of media possible on ...

If you ask any computer user if they'd be averse to ‘speeding up their PC' you'd be unlikely to find anyone who says no. Upgrading and overclocking aside, the only real way to do this is ...

This could be your situation: you've been using Windows XP as your OS for some time and you're now debating whether to switch over to Windows Vista. All well and good, but what if you install ...

The first thing System Suite 7 Pro insists on is having your PC to itself. One of the select band of titles that asks you to close everything down before they'll install, it does give you ...

This is more than a hard disk imaging program, though it'll image your disk. It's more than a disk partitioner, though it will create, delete and merge partitions. It includes a lot of other useful extras, ...

There are many dangerous places in life, like towering cliff-tops, thunderingly fast rapids, or Blackpool on a Saturday night bank holiday weekend. And in the world of the PC, there's the registry, which all novice users ...

There are plenty of uses for Avanquest's Perfect Image 11, a utility that can save a complete image of a drive and reinstate it. It's a good guard against operating system corruption or the installation of ...

Get past the installation that insists on uninstalling certain Roxio programs that already reside on your hard drive, then get over its nagging to be allowed onto the Internet, and Roxio's Copy & Convert is a ...

Ask most people why they don't take backups and they'll tell you they either can't afford the software involved or don't understand it. Or both, especially where servers are concerned. In which case NovaBackup Server Edition ...

The latest version of Fix-It Utilities offers up a suite of programs to keep your PC running as smoothly as possible. Along with the central diagnostic and maintenance software, a virus scanner and anti-spyware program (courtesy ...

Talk to any expert about virtualisation and somewhere along the line they'll mention open source technology from developer XenSource. Getting hold of Xen virtualisation software and putting it to practical use, however, has always been problematic, ...

The arrival of Microsoft's new baby, Windows Vista, has encouraged many people to think about upgrading their computer as well as their software, especially as most new machines come with Vista already installed. Unfortunately this presents ...

You can't be too careful. As Steganos is keen to point out in the accompanying blurb to Safe Professional 2007, while replacing stolen computer equipment is usually quite straightforward, the data contained upon it is often ...

It's no surprise that so few individuals back up their data regularly. Backup is time-consuming to carry out and fiddly to configure. By contrast, the latest version of BounceBack Pro from CMS Products is so simple ...

The idea behind Wyse Streaming Manager takes a little explaining. You're no doubt familiar with the concept of data streaming, whereby music, videos and other files can be delivered to a remote client on demand. You ...

So complete is Roxio's Creator Suite 9 that one of the criticisms levelled at it is that it offers far more than the majority of users realistically need. That complaint is clearly not lost on Roxio, ...

Computers are - let's face facts - a complete arse to work with. They've got a mind of their own and sometimes it's so completely illogical it would give Mister Spock a double coronary. Anything that ...

DVD ripping (the conversion of films from DVD format into another format) is a popular topic, but it's bit of a grey area. Lawyers for film companies will tell you that it's copyright theft, plain and ...