Some computer users, particularly those involved in design and publishing work, can have hundreds or even thousands of different fonts installed on their PCs. Fonts can place a significant drain on resources, because each one is ...

Software utility packages are very popular in the consumer market, providing as they do a wealth of additional tools and features that could collectively be grouped under the heading 'the features that Windows forgot'. McAfee Office ...

PC remote control packages are hardly big news these days, with the likes of PCAnywhere and LapLink having long established themselves as the key players in a crowded market. However VNC (which stands for Virtual Network ...

As you'll have gathered from our previous reviews (here and here for the Pro version), we use Drive Image quite a lot. It's handy for backing up hard drive partitions before installing new review software, then ...

What's the most destructive, hostile environment for any computer? Is the laptop-using sales bod's car boot? Or a publishing house where the keyboards are used as ashtrays? Not even close. Obviously it's a school. Nothing comes ...

We've reviewed a previous version of ZipMagic here (a year ago to the day, bizarrely). But now that all the millennium product-naming nonsense has disappeared, we can go back to the old-fashioned version numbers. This is ...

Ooops, you've accidentally deleted a file and emptied the recycle bin. How clumsy. Expert use of complicated disk tools might enable you to recover the file, but wouldn't it be nicer to be able to turn ...

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 ...