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 ...

Ability is best known for Ability Office, the Microsoft Office workalike which costs £50. The company has now started to sell a series of products under the 'Essentials' banner and one of the first to launch ...

It's a good job that the content of books is commonly superior to their covers. JDFSoft's Portable Vault arrives in a double-sized DVD case with nothing in it bar the program disc. The inlay is a ...

Roxio's Easy Media Creator 8 boastfully claims to be the "all-in-one digital media solution" that will take any audio, video, photo and text files and sort, copy, combine and edit them together in a user-friendly manner. ...

Lacking the backing of an Adobe budget and the refined presentation that makes some of its competition so attractive to use, DVD-Lab Pro is a case in point for that old cliché about books and their ...

Nero is regarded by many as the emperor of the disc burning world, although there's a lot more that this Premium edition can do besides CD/DVD writing. In fact there's so much it can do, it's ...

The clue, as they say, is in the title. Amidst the various corporate manoeuvrings of last year, Sonic Solutions picked up the small matter of Roxio's software business. Cunningly, the company has decided not to wait ...

VMWare Workstation is a computer virtualisation package that lets you install multiple PC 'guest' operating systems on one computer and have them running at the same time, with none of the inconvenience of dual-boot configurations. Currently ...

You can do a lot more with Print Audit 4 than the product name would imply. In addition to finding out who's printing what, when and where, the software can also be used to limit and ...

Maintaining a backup image of your Windows installation is a useful security measure, and TrueImage 8 aims to make this task as straightforward as possible, even for non-technical users. It can create and save images of ...

It's no secret that the Windows operating system, in spite of all its qualities, is not without its foibles. And few can be more annoying than when the OS clogs up, slows downs, blue-screens and generally ...

With its ability to run multiple instances of Windows on the same server hardware, Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 is a great tool for developers wanting to test applications at minimal cost. Likewise it can be used ...

We might be falling on the side of cynical here, but to us, the key reason people would want to buy a package like this is to copy commercial DVDs (be it for backup or less ...

This is a major competitor to the likes of Partition Magic, and we first reviewed it here. Its whole aim in life is to make partition management something anybody can do. If you have several partitions ...

SystemWorks really does do the works. As well as Ghost, covered elsewhere in this group test, the suite includes Norton Anti-Virus, Utilities, Password Manager, GoBack and CleanSweep, as well as WebTools and numerous other little helpers. ...

Ghost is one of the original disk imaging tools, designed to take an exact copy of a disk partition to copy elsewhere. The main elements of the program are again Wizard-driven and you can save drive ...

When launched, Drive Image 7 was a PowerQuest product, but earlier this year that company was acquired by Symantec, so this product and its well-known partner, Partition Magic, are now both available from the home of ...