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 ...

Laplink made its name with a single piece of software that connected two PCs together so you could copy files between them. In a way, Laplink Everywhere 4 still does exactly the same thing. The difference ...

There's no showboating where hard drive defragmenting utility Diskeeper is concerned, as it's a tool that aims as much as possible to stay out of your sight. The new 2007 edition (effectively version eleven) subscribes fully ...

We recently reviewed McAfee's security suite for 2007, and now it's Norton's turn under the microscope. Unsurprisingly, just like its main rival, Norton 2007 doesn't contain any major additions since last year's version (although it's taken ...

Considering that the download size of the setup program amounts to around 10MB, Rollback Rx Professional Edition is a tool that exerts a surprising amount of influence over your PC. Its aim is to allow you ...

True Image made its name as a system backup tool. In the same way as Norton Ghost or PowerQuest's now defunct Drive Image, it can make a complete copy of everything on your hard drive. You ...

Creator 9 finds Roxio in its most assured form for some time. It's been a constant and usually fair criticism that since the company switched to a suite of burning applications a few generations back, more ...

There have been some pretty horrific stories about identity theft in the press over the last year or so and some of these have highlighted problems with data left on the hard drives of PCs, which ...

Painless partitioning of hard drives is something that appeals to the nerd in this reviewer, but it also has practical applications for both home and business users. Dumping all your applications and data on the same ...

There are two types of backup for desktop computers. A system backup takes an exact copy of everything in a given partition of your hard drive. This type of backup is epitomised by Norton Ghost and ...

We all know how important it is to take backups, but it takes time and isn't always easy, especially when the data you want to protect won't fit on a single tape or disk. Most backup ...

A recent TV programme made a shock revelation that thousands of obsolete computers, which had apparently had their hard drives wiped, had been sold abroad and financial data, passwords and private information had still been extracted ...

Phoenix Recover Pro 6 offers you a simple, one-button solution for backup and recovery of data on your PC. Windows XP users will, of course, be aware that Microsoft has already built in a degree of ...

It's the moment every PC owner dreads; having to transfer all your data and settings from the old computer to the new. Not only can you expect to spend hours or even days on the job, ...

You may never need to repartition your hard drive. But if you do, you'd be well advised not to rely on Windows' rather crude tools. Disk Director Suite 10 may only address one task (actually a ...