This is probably the best-known drive installation and upgrade manager in the world and Ontrack claims over 150 million copies have been sold. Rather than working with existing drives in a PC, it aims to provide ...

Acronis specialises in hard drive housekeeping software and True Image is the company's offering for saving and restoring complete hard drive images. It runs from Windows, but also includes a facility to prepare a boot floppy ...

A partition manager looks like a one-trick pony and you wonder why you should have to lay out so much to complete a single task... until you need to change the structure of your hard drive. ...

This is one of those deceptively simple pieces of software that will find a home with people who have had to spend hours online or on the phone to technical support every time a system or ...

VMWare Workstation is a product designed for developers to set up test environments for all manner of software and network configurations, without needing lots of PCs. Many different operating systems can be installed and run concurrently ...

A small utility this, but really quite a handy one. It's aim is straightforward - to 'wash' (that's the company's word for delete) any files you don't need from your computer, to make it run that ...

Roxio's Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 was a disappointing package. Under its umbrella it gathered together some quite useful applications, but failed to really integrate them, and slapped an unappealing price tag on it all. ...

Billed as an all-in-one solution for burning CDs and DVDs, Pinnacle's latest is up against a crowded market that has an excellent front-runner. It doesn't quite do enough to displace Nero 6, but there's nonetheless much ...

One of the problems with traditional backup programs is that they copy files individually, usually to tape, making them slow. Plus you need special agent software to backup databases and other applications while they're working. Recovering ...

"For worry-free partitioning", boasts the box copy on the back of V Communications' latest, "Partition Commander is the only choice!". That's not true, as users of PartitionMagic can testify. But it's nonetheless it's a choice worth ...

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 ...