Hard drive management can be a pain. You need an application to partition, a tool to backup and restore data and another to clone your drive. Paragon have brought these tools together within one application, called Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 Personal SE. This is a superb drive toolkit and a full current product. We've also got Internet Cleanup 4, which will enable you to secure your browsing, when you surf the net. The two Ashampoo products Magical Snap and Magical Optimizer are worth investigating and if you've ever wanted to setup your own e-store, look no further than ShopFactory 6 Light.

We have a bonus full application this issue, in VHS Backup. This tool will enable you to backup your VHS videos to your computer. You could then use these to burn to DVD or another format, at a later date.

If you've bought the DVD edition, you'll find Roxio Media Creator Suite 9 Rollback Edition, which you can use to create your own digital media. It works for 30 days then reverts to a version with very limited functionality. We've also got a 60-day version of Microsoft Office Professional 2007. You'll also find a new selection of game demos and Linux software, as well as our extensive DVD Resources, containing full applications such as Paragon Partition Manager 2005, eXpert PDF 3, Style Master 4.03 and Registry Mechanic 5.0, amongst others.

Spam Filters (local and server-side spam filters)
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).