Ahead Software has, it seems, been watching the market very closely. For the sixth generation of its burning software, the company has partly trodden the path followed by Roxio with its Easy CD & DVD Creator ...

Retrospect from Dantz stands out from other network backup applications in that it's remarkably easy to use. That's partly down to a well thought-out management interface, further simplified in the latest 6.5 release, but also because ...

One of the many ways in which Windows XP differs from previous versions of the Windows platform is in the way it handles digital media. Significant improvements have been made in managing digital images and audio ...

The best things about this hard drive defragmenting tool are what it doesn't do. It doesn't get in the way of you working. It doesn't require you to make a succession of decisions each time you ...

We reviewed a previous version of Steganos Security Suite here and were impressed with the product's ease of use and ability to hide and encrypt your files and e-mails. This latest version adds a few new ...

VMWare Workstation is a PC emulator which focuses on emulating hardware, similar to Connectix Virtual PC. Unlike just about every real PC available today, it doesn't come with Windows. For many developers and IT staff, VMWare ...

Adaptec's Easy CD Creator (last reviewed here) was, along with Nero, one of the early forerunners in the CD burning software market. But while Nero has remained quite a slimline utility, Adaptec's title - under current ...

Increasingly, new versions of Windows are steering users well clear of the guts of the operating system. This is generally a good thing, since it reduces the number of support problems and makes the operating system ...

It's almost a year since we last reviewed PartitionMagic, so it's almost inevitable that a new version should arrive. This one has a few tweaks and improvements over the previous version, but whether that makes it ...

We reviewed a (much) earlier version of Steganos here. Although the original core idea - the ability to hide documents and other sensitive information inside other files - has been retained, many new features are available ...

Software compression tools have been around for donkeys' years, going back to the early PKWare ARC files, and even earlier on some systems, before the ZIP format was widely accepted ourside the Unix world (where TAR-GZip ...

Virtual CD performs just one task, but it does it extremely well. It creates and maintains copies of CDs and DVDs as image files on a hard disk. This means that, once a Virtual CD image ...

One of the most useful disk utility tools ever made has been tweaked and updated this year. Drive Image 2002 has the same core disk partition management abilities of previous versions, but there are some user-friendly ...

Slightly more (ahem) mature readers may remember the vast number of DOS shell programs that used to be available. One of these was EasyDOS, very similar to Quikmenu. EasyDOS is still going strong in the days ...

It sometimes seems that rate of change of operating systems is much much higher than the applications that run under them. This applies as much to Linux as it does to Windows, though there is considerably ...

LapLink has been around for more than a decade in various forms (we reviewed an earlier version here). This latest version supports all 32-bit versions of Windows (i.e. 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP) and is a powerful tool for accessing ...

As you'll see from our previous reviews (starting here), we've been using PartitionMagic and its ilk for several years. Tools such as this are handy for manipulating your hard drive so that you can, for example, ...

Utilities that effectively 'turn back time' on PC configurations can be useful. They can be used to recover from malicious damage, virus attacks, ill-advised software installation and user errors. GoBack 3 Deluxe is the latest package ...

It's surprisingly simple to lose the data on a CD-R. Even with the widespread use of BURN-proof drives, huge data buffers, increasingly clever software and ever-cheaper discs, errors can be made quite easily. The big problem ...

One of the hassles of working in software/hardware development or product support is running multiple operating systems to check that what works under, say, Windows ME, will also work under Windows 2000. You can do it ...