Some utilities are built on the idea that people who spend a lot of time at a PC, working and producing things of value (as opposed to gaming, surfing the Web, or searching online for information or entertainment) require basic software tools which ...

Some things just work. Handy Folders is a genuine time saver and productivity enhancer. Anyone who regularly accesses a variety of different folders for file editing, document creation and document management purposes will welcome this little utility. ...

The Adobe Elements product development teams must stay awake nights figuring out ways to aggravate and scare their competitors. Each new release of the Elements products bring new features, better integration and smoother operation of previous ...

PC Pitstop Optimize 2.0 is designed to remove useless data files and cached web browser files to free up disk space, adjust Internet settings in the Windows registry file for better performance, remove invalid registry keys, and adjust several other ...

SpeedUpMyPC is a utility designed to optimize system start-up, RAM and CPU usage, clean up junk files, optimize your Internet access and check whatever privacy protection happens to be enabled on your Windows computer. SpeedUpMyPC seems to be aimed at ...

ProcessScanner is really a two-part deal: the ProcessScanner system process analysis utility, and the ProcessLibrary.com web site which contains a Windows operating system and program compendium of all of the known background, low level, mid level and ...

You can't be too careful these days. Email spam payloads are being designed specifically to circumvent whichever antispam software is most popular. Antispam software companies are constantly besieged by new spam message configurations and threats and ...

Networks are ubiquitous. I haven't visited a home, SOHO or business of any kind in the past two years that didn't have some sort of computer network up and running. Networks just kind of crept up on us mainly through the advent of inexpensive routers, ...

Selkie Quick File Transfer works well, which is more important than anything else. Secure file transfers across comparatively non-secure networks are quick and easy. Adding some sort of scheduling routine using Microsoft Scheduler (which is built into ...

Even in relatively simple utilities it's possible for the developers to miss some basic issues. The installation dialog is slightly confusing at the boot CD burning stage, leaving you to wonder if you're supposed to click a mode button or click the ...

The biggest laugh I've had in 2007 occurred because a reliable, three year old 2.8GHz Pentium 4 with 2GB of DDR RAM and an nVidia GeForce 7600GS video card could only pull a Windows Vista Experience Index base score of 3.9. I suppose it's not really ...

Registry Booster 2 is an important key to successfully running Windows Vista on older, compatible hardware. It is to Windows Vista what a major overhaul is to an older car. Registry Booster 2 creates a more stable operating environment for all of the ...

There's a noticeably long delay before the progress/status indicator appears onscreen after clicking the Repair button, most noticeable on older PCs with single core processors. The delay may give new users the impression that nothing is happening. ...

Lost passwords probably account for tens of millons of dollars worth of lost data, time and energy every year. While accurate statistics don't really exist, it's safe to say that almost every home and business computer owner has been frustrated at one ...

Works with Microsoft Office 2007 documents. Password Recovery Kit speed is limited only by the speed of your CPU. If you are in an environment which generates confidential information (spec sheets, research, analysis, private reports, designs, reviews ...

This isn't really a Con but you need to know that complex or overlong passwords may require a day or more for Password Recovery Kit to discover. That's just the nature of brute-force recoveries. Note that Word 2003, 2002/2000 & 97 and Excel 2003, 2002 ...

Sooner or later, Windows will crash or lockup. The operating system is many, many times better than it used to be, but it also now carries the burden of a thousand new loads brought on by spyware, bad software installations, dumb user errors, and ...

Selkie Data Rescue is simple, intuitive and can be used to recover files and data in a matter of minutes. Even if you've only got a pair of networked PCs in your home or office, Selkie Data Rescue can save the day in situations where Windows fails and ...