We've covered Perfect Image 11 before on IT Reviews and to summarise, we thought the program was a good image backup tool, though limited in how it could access a drive image, once created. It's a ...

Your PC needs to be looked after, otherwise it soon degenerates into a messy forest of files and folders. Every month (at least) you should be running a disk cleaner, defragging the hard drive and maybe ...

One of the many areas of your operating system that can fall foul of the test of time is the Windows registry, which seems to get itself into a right old state no matter how carefully ...

Acronis has built an impressive and deserved reputation in the system backup and security market with its True Image series, and has built a range of worthwhile improvements into the latest version. True Image 11 is ...

Roxio's Easy Media Creator series has been around for so long that it's almost impossible to imagine computer life without it. The main advantage of Easy Media Creator has been the convenience of having a range ...

How can you lose files? Windows has had a recycle bin for years and you'd have to be pretty stupid to drop a file in the bin and empty it before realising the file was important, ...

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 ...