The most recent File & Disk Management articles from What PC?

Ontrack EasyRecovery FileRepair

Dominic Bucknall — 2002-05-14T13:18:37.000Z

Dominic Bucknall, What PC?, Tuesday 14 May 2002 at 13:18:37

Welcome to the Last Chance Saloon of the software world.

The version of FileRepair we reviewed is designed to rebuild damaged files created by Microsoft Office applications. In fact FileRepair is more of a toolkit than a single, integrated product,...

Virtual CD 4

Kyle MacRae — 2002-03-12T09:54:53.000Z

Kyle MacRae, What PC?, Tuesday 12 March 2002 at 09:54:53

Use CD and DVD applications and games without having the discs in your drive - especially handy for travelling notebook users.

Virtual CD 4's gimmick is simple enough: CDs and DVDs can be imaged, or copied, to your computer's hard disk and thereafter accessed without further recourse to the physical discs....

McAfee Utilities 4

Andy Gibbons — 2001-06-28T23:00:00.000Z

Andy Gibbons, What PC?, Thursday 28 June 2001 at 23:00:00

A feature-packed utility suite with a whole host of useful tools.

With successive versions of Windows serving up ever-improving system tools, the makers of utility software have really had to focus their efforts to maintain demand for their products....

Connectix Virtual PC 4

Cliff Joseph — 2001-04-01T23:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, What PC?, Sunday 1 April 2001 at 23:00:00

Mac users can now get their hands on Windows applications.

Apple may leave all its PC rivals standing when it comes to producing gorgeously designed computers such as the iMac or the G4 Cube....

Executive Software Diskeeper 6.0

Bob Rolson — 2001-03-31T23:00:00.000Z

Bob Rolson, What PC?, Saturday 31 March 2001 at 23:00:00

A disk defragmenting program to replace Microsoft's "Defrag"

A tidy hard disk means a faster PC, which is why regular running of Windows' built-in clean-up tool - Disk Defragmenter - is a wise idea.But if you're tired of...

Network Associates McAfee Office 3

Kyle MacRae — 2001-03-09T24:00:00.000Z

Kyle MacRae, What PC?, Friday 9 March 2001 at 00:00:00

A collection of software tools to optimise, troubleshoot, repair, protect, secure and maintain your PC both online and off.

This latest release of McAfee's flagship product is not so different from its immediate predecessor, Office 2000 Pro. It now supports Windows Millennium Edition (although not Windows 2000) and the...

Powerquest PartitionMagic 6.0

Kyle MacRae — 2001-02-01T24:00:00.000Z

Kyle MacRae, What PC?, Thursday 1 February 2001 at 00:00:00

Wouldn't it more convenient to have smaller manageable disk partitions instead of your 30Gb monster? Partioning is easy using the latest version of Powerquest's popular utility.

There are several reasons why you want to partition your PC's hard disk, the most likely of which are to run two or more operating systems in parallel on a...

Ontrack ZipMagic 4.0

Andy Gordon — 2001-02-01T24:00:00.000Z

Andy Gordon, What PC?, Thursday 1 February 2001 at 00:00:00

Make this Zip-file manager part of your utilities collection.

There are some utilities no discerning PC user should be without, and one of them is a manager for zipped (compressed) files....

Jasc Media Center Plus v3

J Mark Lytle — 2000-06-29T23:00:00.000Z

J Mark Lytle, What PC?, Thursday 29 June 2000 at 23:00:00

If you have media files scattered all over your hard desk, Media Centre Pro will sort them out for you. It even shows you handy thumbnails and lets you work on them.

Jasc, the company that brought you Paint Shop Pro, seems keen to grab a slice of every part of the software pie these days and has launched an updated version...

Centerprise GoBack

Jason Jenkins — 2000-04-30T23:00:00.000Z

Jason Jenkins, What PC?, Sunday 30 April 2000 at 23:00:00

Ever installed an application that has trashed your hard disk, or inadvertantly deleted a few vital files? Then you should take a look at GoBack, a utility that can help to restore an ailing PC to its former glory.

GoBack is a product in the same vein as Powerquest's SecondChance - if something goes wrong with your PC, it can return your hard drive (and therefore your PC) to...

McAfee Utilities

J Mark Lytle — 2000-02-01T24:00:00.000Z

J Mark Lytle, What PC?, Tuesday 1 February 2000 at 00:00:00

First there was Nuts and Bolts, now there is McAfee Utilities, a collection of utilities designed to keep your PC running smoothly

Once upon a time, the good people at Network Associates brought us a splendid little package of PC utilities called Nuts and Bolts....

Mijenix ZipMagic 2000

Julian Prokaza — 2000-01-01T24:00:00.000Z

Julian Prokaza, What PC?, Saturday 1 January 2000 at 00:00:00

Downloading files off the internet would be impossible without zip files. ZipMagic makes it incredibly easy to open and create these useful files.

Thanks largely to the relative cheapness of multi-gigabyte hard drives, file compression isn't quite so vital as it used to be, but that's not to say it's altogether useless....