With Linux becoming more and more popular, a couple of ancillary industries have sprung-up around it. One of these aims to make the operation of Linux easier and System Commander 2000 falls firmly into this camp, ...

Do you remember when LapLink came in the shape of a single .exe file, just over 100KB in size? You're in good company; so do we. At that time, the program was solely for file transfer ...

Despite the awful pun in the name, Nero Burning ROM is a serious contender in the CD mastering stakes. The latest incarnation, version 4, features a slick user interface and a host of options which place ...

As any Webmaster will know, whether running the world's largest site or a 'My Home Page' full of naff photographs of their ugly pets, there are several well-known FTP clients (the programs used to upload HTML ...

The very first piece of software we ever reviewed on this site was Drive Image 2.0 (read our review here for a gentle twinge of nostalgia), but the Pro version is a different kettle of fish ...

Before reading this review, have a look at our review of a previous version of PartitionMagic, here, if you don't already understand the concept of hard drive partitions and why manipulating them can be very useful. ...

There are plenty of Windows-based systems diagnostics tools available, but for really thorough hardware burn-in and evaluation, something more low-level is required. AMI, previously best-known for BIOSes and motherboards, has recently released version 6.0 of its ...

If there's one thing that Windows doesn't manage particularly well, it's uninstallation. Or de-installation. Or application removal, or whatever you prefer to call it; getting rid of programs that have outlived their usefulness. Using the built-in ...

Compressing large files into small spaces has always been a popular pastime for the PC user, whether because of limited drive capacity or to reduce phone bills during modem file transfer. In the early days the ...

It's getting nearer. That big day that IT departments are dreading and lawyers are gleefully anticipating. Y2K, the day of reckoning. The day when we discover whether all the worry was just hype, or whether something ...

Is it really only a year since the last incarnation of Adaptec's comprehensive CD copier/creator was launched? You'd have thought it would be far too soon to launch a successor, but in Easy CD Creator 4 ...

It's easy to lose files, either through 'user error' or because of a hardware or software problem. In most cases, once a file has been deleted or corrupted, the data it contains is still present on ...

Over the ages, people have cunningly hidden secret documents inside other items - paintings, boxes, trees, that sort of thing. It's been a common theme in spy thrillers, too. Steganos allows you to do the same ...

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 ...