Over time, everyone will need to sort out the drive, whether this is creating a new partition, deleting an old partition, backing up your date or simply copying a partition from one drive to a brand new drive. Problem is, it's too easy to end up buying separate expensive applications. A better solution would be to purchase an all-in-one drive maintenance solution which ships with all the tools you need to manage your drive. Paragon Hard Disk Manager 9.5 SE is such a solution. We also have TuneUp Utilities 2008, Golden Records, which will enable you to record audio from your old LPs and tapes, as well as Ashampoo PowerUp 2009.

If you have the DVD edition you'll also find Serif Photo Plus 9 which will enable you to get the most from your digital photos. We've updated the Resources and included the latest game demos and Linux distributions.

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).