There was once a time when the LapLink program took up less than 100KB of disk space and was only useful for transferring files under DOS. These days it comes on a CDROM and offers some ...

Not everyone in the world made the immediate upgrade from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95, and similarly, not everyone has upgraded from Windows 95 to Windows 98. If you're thinking of making the latter move, then ...

Autumn is, apparently, the time for the launch of new hard drive partitioning tools. We've had Partition Commander (reviewed on this site) and now it's time for the latest version of PartitionMagic. This is the program ...

There was a time when a partition meant nothing more than a piece of plasterboard separating two rooms. But where computers are concerned it means something altogether more complex. Partitions are used to divide hard drives ...

Creating CDs is not a particularly simple business. If CD-R and CD-RW drives were as easy to use as a standard floppy drive, then we'd all have one. As it is, there are all sorts of ...

Millennium fever is everywhere in the IT industry, as companies and individuals attempt to ensure that their systems will survive the transition from 31/12/1999 to 01/01/2000. The problem is two-fold, at the very least. First, the ...

Backing up is hard to do, to coin a phrase. And it's true; taking time out from a busy life to mess around with backup tapes or other media is a pain in the proverbial. After ...

Every so often, users of all different kinds of operating system can be seen pulling their hair out and shouting "Argh! Why won't it let me do that?!". This is because some of the potentially most ...

It's easy to assume that e-mail is secure, but in fact most messages are sent as pure text, with little or no encryption. That means that anybody with the right equipment can read them. This piece ...

The idea of running more than one operating system on a single PC rarely enters most people's minds. It is often more than enough hassle trying to keep one operating system functioning properly, let alone several. ...

Hard drive manipulation software is PowerQuest's forté, as this new version of Drive Image proves. The purpose of this utility is quite simple: to allow the user to back up complete hard drives without worrying about ...