Personal Computer World, March 2009 - DVD Edition

We had so many key full commercial applications last month, along with our updated Resources, that we ended up relegating the superb Paragon Drive Backup 9 SE as a DVD-only release. If you've bought the CD edition, you'll find that Drive Backup is on your disc and this tool will enable you to quickly backup and restore an entire drive or partition. If that wasn't enough though, we've also got Acronis True Image 10 Home, which you can also use to backup a drive.

Other highlights include the full current version of Webroot Window Washer 6.5, which will enable you to cleanse and remove unnecessary data from your PC. Ashampoo Burning Studio 2009 is a simple but effective burning tool that will enable you to quickly burn data to your disc.

If you have the DVD edition you'll also find the world exclusive full current version of Paragon Drive Copy 9 SE which will enable you to copy or migrate data from an old computer or old drive to a new machine.. You might have noticed that we gave the Resources section a big revamp last month. This month we've updated it and refreshed some of the content.

Important: Problems Obtaining Full Application Serial Codes
Over the last few months, we've noticed that readers have had problems obtaining serial codes from online registration pages. This isn't always a problem with the online registration page, but a problem with anti-spam filters, which filter out the incoming email (containing the serial code). If you have an internal anti-spam filter installed on your computer, check your 'junk mail' or 'spam' folder, to see if the email has accidentally been classed as spam.

Alternatively, you may find that you're Internet service provider (ISP) has implemented a server-side anti-spam filter. A server-side anti-spam filter filters email at the ISP...so you don't even see the spam. However, the downside is that any email that your ISP classes as 'spam' means that it gets filtered, by your ISP. Our advice would be to turn off your ISP server-side anti-spam filter and use a filter on your system, which means that spam is filtered by your own preferences (ie what you regard as spam).

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