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When you've designed a working suite of hard disk utilities for partitioning and backing up drives, it gets more awkward to devise novel features for each new version. Paragon's 2010 Suite adds quite a few, though, ...
If you were intrigued by our review of the 3 MiFi gadget but thought it was a bit pricey and you don't want to be tied to a mobile phone operator, don't despair. Connectify is free ...
Building new PCs can be a tedious and time consuming job, especially if you've lots to configure. Disk imaging tools help but you'll need multiple images to cope with the various bits of hardware and other ...
The ability to run Windows on an Apple Macintosh instantly turns it into something infinitely more useful, particularly if it's possible to run it alongside OSX and swap information easily back and forth. Thus, Parallels makes ...
Windows programs are notoriously difficult to remove, leaving bits of themselves all over the place and requiring not just the routine use of the Add/Remove Programs utility in Control Panel, but often also of third party ...
Every computer owner has that awful scenario in the back of their mind that one day their machine will fail to boot up and all those valuable data files, operating systems and applications will be lost ...
Available for both Windows and Linux, VMware Workstation heads the field as far as personal virtualisation platforms are concerned. Mainly because as well as hosting virtual machines on a desktop PC, it comes with an extensive ...
In an ideal world, the Windows registry would manage to keep itself up-to-date and automatically erase any entries for hardware and software that's been uninstalled. Sadly, we don't live in an ideal world, and a bloated ...
TuneUp Utilities has proven a popular solution for those who are looking to optimise or squeeze more power from a PC, and this is in no small part down to regular improvements in new versions that ...
There may not be many times you need to reorganise the partitions on your hard drive, but when you do, you really need specialist software. Partition Commander, originally a product of VCom but now rebadged under ...
The hypervisor crowd just got a little bit bigger, following the launch of Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal which, although a late entrant, could give the others something to think about. On the face of it ...
Windows 7 is probably the first version of Microsoft's operating system since XP that people actually want to upgrade to. Stopgap and also-ran versions like Media Centre Edition and even the mighty Vista were never really ...
I'm not going to begin this review by telling you how important it is to carry out regular backups of your data. If you're reading this you already know that, probably through personal experience of data ...
Some applications have endured for a long time with good reason. That's certainly the case with Norton Ghost 14, which presents a case for being the most complete utility that Symantec sells to consumers. The idea ...
Fanatical PC gamers are willing to go to great lengths to get their machines running at maximum efficiency. Over-clocking processors and graphics cards, water cooling, even liquid nitrogen cooling in extreme cases (and you'll need an ...
Even if you don't realise it, drivers - the little programs that make all your various PC hardware components talk to each other and live in harmony together - are the bane of every PC user's ...
Everyone hates backing up. It's boring and complicated. You have to decide whether to back everything up (Windows, settings, registry, programs, data, the lot) or just those files you've created like documents, spreadsheets and photographs: if ...
Norton Utilities is, strangely enough, a suite of utility programs designed with your machine's health in mind. They encompass a range of system diagnosis, cleaning and optimisation tools, with all the programs neatly ensconced inside the ...
When we looked at Paragon's Hard Disk Manager 2009 Suite which costs around £30, we commented on its partitioning abilities and pointed out a couple of shortfalls. Partition Manager 10 Personal is primarily the partitioning segment ...
Keeping your computer in shape is a bit like looking after your body. Cram it full of junk, fail to ensure the motions of your recycle bin are regular and neglect the fitness of vital components, ...