As well as disaster recovery, disk imaging can be used to deploy new PCs without having to install an operating system and then configure application software and custom settings every time. Snap Deploy from Acronis takes ...

It is the fear that every PC owner has lurking at the back of the mind: what if my computer crashes or a virus wipes out or corrupts all of my data? Since most of us ...

Gone are the days when virtualisation products were the preserve of the hard-core geek. With the easy availability of low-cost virtualisation software from the likes of VMware, as well as a slew of free and open-source ...

There are plenty of solutions for backing up files these days: if you don't like using Windows' own tools, most decent security suites now offer dedicated services of their own. But online backup seems to be ...

If only all software were as straightforward and effective as Total Uninstall 4. It's a tool that never deviates from its given intent; to rid your machine of unwanted programs once and for all. Sadly, in ...

If you get into problems with Windows, it's usually expensive to call on advice from a support service. There's a market for automated diagnostics and repair, but many of these programs aim at just one aspect; ...

Traverse the computing message boards and forums of the Internet, and there's always going to be a new post from a user struggling to identify the components that are sat inside their PC. Be it identification ...

You do take regular backups of your PC don't you? No? Don't tell me: you've tried, but found it too complicated or just too time-consuming to bother. In which case you'll be interested in FileKeeper Professional, ...

Protecting your valuable documents by backing them up to a different drive is a key tenet of PC security. Most backup programs work by looking at specific folders and copying every file that's new or changed ...

There's a golden rule of reviewing system utilities that states something along the lines of ‘thou must not install review software on a machine you need to use the following day.' You can see what's going ...

We've covered Perfect Image 11 before on IT Reviews and to summarise, we thought the program was a good image backup tool, though limited in how it could access a drive image, once created. It's a ...

Your PC needs to be looked after, otherwise it soon degenerates into a messy forest of files and folders. Every month (at least) you should be running a disk cleaner, defragging the hard drive and maybe ...

One of the many areas of your operating system that can fall foul of the test of time is the Windows registry, which seems to get itself into a right old state no matter how carefully ...

Acronis has built an impressive and deserved reputation in the system backup and security market with its True Image series, and has built a range of worthwhile improvements into the latest version. True Image 11 is ...

Roxio's Easy Media Creator series has been around for so long that it's almost impossible to imagine computer life without it. The main advantage of Easy Media Creator has been the convenience of having a range ...

How can you lose files? Windows has had a recycle bin for years and you'd have to be pretty stupid to drop a file in the bin and empty it before realising the file was important, ...

Are you joining the growing number of users who are a little despondent with the avalanche of additions that adorn their disc-burning suites these days? Cyberlink has your number. Because rather than follow the Nero or ...

Window Washer does three different things that can help with the housekeeping of your PC: it clears your Internet history, tidies up after less-than-thorough un-installations and wipes a hard drive completely clean. The program itself uses ...

As is now sadly the norm with seemingly every media-related program that we install onto our test machines, Nero 8 is keen, upon installation, to be the default app for every form of media possible on ...

If you ask any computer user if they'd be averse to ‘speeding up their PC' you'd be unlikely to find anyone who says no. Upgrading and overclocking aside, the only real way to do this is ...