BigFix claims to help you "fix bugs before they bite!", and what's more - we believe it. This is a fantastic fix it tool, which analyses your PC, and then connects to the BigFix site to cross reference the state of your system with known bugs.

It did a great job of pulling our virgin Windows 98 installation to pieces, accurately diagnosing faults with the TCP/IP stack, vulnerable ActiveX controls, and an Internet Explorer security exploit or two... or three...

Our thanks to the good people of pcplus.internet for pointing us in the direction of this great HTML editor. HTML Kit 1 is easily on a par with Allaire's HomeSite 4.0, with comprehensive editing, code formatting, comparison and compatibility features built in. Not sure if what you've written complies with the W3C's guidelines? HTML Kit will tell you (if you ask it to!).

If this is version 1, we can't wait for version 2...

Forget TweakUI. Forget TweakAll, in fact, forget every other fancy piece of registry hacking software that you've ever come across. Xteq X-Setup gives you complete control over every aspect of Windows, from menus and toolbars to memory allocation.

Warning: There are advanced options within this program that could potentially damage your system if not used correctly. These advanced options are highlighted in the application in orange.

File syncronisation tools are immensely useful tools that people quite often neglect when they're building their software arsenal. We were recently working on a new website on our workstations, and occasionally we wanted to publish updates to a public server for the world to see - a tedious task of copying all the files from a local directory to a remote directory by hand. Needless to say, updates were often neglected as they were just too much hassle.

Then we discovered FileSync 1.50, which allows us to copy up only the changed pages, at a single button click - it's an immensely useful tool, and leaves you thinking "How on earth did we manage without it?" Click here to install FileSync

AxelCD is an attractive, high quality free CD Player with an excellent graphical user interface. Its slick-looking GUI has multiple touch-sensitive and click-sensitive areas, as well as special visual effects such as animated buttons, fade-ins and fade-outs.

So much nicer than the Windows CD player.

If you spend valuable dial up time searching for something using multiple search engines, then you need Copernic 2000.

Copernic is a stand-alone application that searches most of the large search engines, e-mail directories, newsgroups and purchasing sites. You can also search by category, such as 'humour', 'health' and 'games'.

The popular freeware Partitioning program is back! The first free program to resize and move partitions without data loss, is now more complete, with support for disks up to 2TB of size.

New features include:

• Int13 extensions support allows handling of disks up to 2TB (2048GB) of size.
• New Resizing/Moving engine, with simpler interface. Move and resize your partitions in one step.
• Transparent extended partition resizing (no more confusion with extended partitions).

Command line parameters for accessing advanced options (read-only operation etc.).
Partition resizer is a small DOS executable, which requires no installation, and can perform all these tasks in a short while, giving you the opportunity to re-arrange your disk partitions safely, quickly, and fuss-free.

WARNING: This application is can be potentially damaging to your computer if used incorrectly. Read the included documentation.