Personal Computer World

Paragon Partition Manager 9 SE

Dividing up your hard drive into multiple partitions can help organise your data, improve performance, and make more efficient use of hard drive space. Windows own partitioning tools are feeble, even in Vista, but that really doesn't matter when applications like Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 SE are around to fill the gaps. Superb disk partitioning toolkit.

Email Center Pro Basic

Online service that could help you keep your customers by providing a powerful set of tools to manage shared email addresses. This all starts with something that looks very much like a webmail front end to your existing email account: you and others can log on, check incoming emails and send replies as they're required. But you can also assign an email to a particular member of staff and display everyone's workload at a glance.

O&O DiskImage 3 Express

Hard drive imaging is very simple to carry out, then, and there's no better advertisement for that than O&O DiskImage 3 Express. While similar programs drown you in confusing drive maps,this one delivers just a single toolbar with only five options.

PC Tools Registry Mechanic 7

The typical Registry is a complex database holding thousands of settings for both Windows and any installed applications. Unfortunately it'll probably also be cluttered with broken file associations, missing Startup programs, invalid ActiveX control references and other redundant entries left over from long-uninstalled applications. Take action with a cleanup tool like PC Tools Registry Mechanic 7.

VinylStudio 5 Lite

They're a nostalgic reminder of your youth, with great packaging and a really warm sound, but your old vinyl albums are never going to win any awards for convenience. They're alarmingly fragile, too, and every time you play one you're risking scratches that could ruin it forever. That's why you need to protect your analogue recordings by converting them into a more durable CD format, and VinylStudio Lite is the perfect tool to help.

Password Depot 3

Keeping track of all your online user names and passwords can be a real nightmare. It's hard to remember them, unwise to write them down, and an extremely bad idea to use the same logon details everywhere (if one account gets hacked then you could be in real trouble). You need help, a proper password manager, and Password Depot 3 is one of the best.