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, ...

Once upon a time, anyone wanting to mess about with disk partitions went out and bought PartitionMagic. But times have changed and the magic has gone out of what's now a Symantec product, a lack of ...

As long as there are human beings using computers, there'll be a need for file recovery or 'undelete' software. Be it a lost document, some accidentally removed photos or allowing strangers with itchy delete fingers near ...

Computers don't age particularly well. They slow down not only as their hardware becomes more out of date, but also as the operating system gets clogged up with all sorts of detritus (especially if it hasn't ...

If you have to install and configure new PCs as part of your job, you'll know how handy disk imaging and cloning tools can be. You'll also appreciate their limitations, especially when it comes to deploying ...

The beauty of the shareware and freeware models are that they allow you to isolate specific tools for specific jobs, without the need to opt for a bloated suite of utilities of which you may simply ...

The adage about books and their covers is nothing new, but in the world of freeware and shareware software, it is more prevalent that it should be. Mo-Search is the latest example. On the surface it's ...

The aim of VCOM Powerdesk Pro 7 is, seemingly, to provide a Swiss army knife of utilities to help with the running and maintenance of an everyday PC. As such, included in the package is an ...

Disaster is only one step away on any given PC. A power cut that happens while you're installing the latest Windows service pack, causing operating system malfunctions. A random hard drive failure. A spilt cup of ...

There are generally two types of disk management program: those that copy and restore disk images for backup and security, and those which can re-partition disks so you can create and resize logical drives on them. ...

Most people would probably agree that PC maintenance isn't as high a priority as it used to be. As such we'd expect the success of software like TuneUp Utilities to suffer from the fact that people ...

The ultimate aim for a good format conversion program, surely, is to take any hint of hassle out of transforming a file. It's the kind of application that many are crying out for, not least with ...

As software products mature, new releases tend to be centred around things like usability and performance enhancements, bug fixes and keeping up with industry trends. That's very much the case with VMware Workstation 6.5, although it ...

Just like its once-rival, Easy CD Creator (now Roxio Creator 2009), Nero is an application suite no longer content to simply burn your CD and DVD discs and walk away. Instead, Nero 9 is now a ...

We've been reviewing drive imaging software on IT Reviews since this site was launched. In fact the first ever software review was of this type of product. Imaging tools are handy because you don't have to ...

There are two approaches to PC maintenance. The lazy method is simply to wait until something goes wrong and then think about defragging your hard drive for the first time in two years. The second and ...

The one thing missing from VMware's virtualisation line-up has always been a tool to virtualise applications - but no longer. Its new ThinApp product fills that gap, making it possible to build virtual applications which run ...

Most virtualisation programs work by virtualising hardware, but not Virtuozzo Containers from Parallels, which virtualises the host operating system instead. The end result is much the same - the ability to support multiple independent virtual environments ...