Everyone has to either dispose, give away or sell their PC sometime in the future. Indeed, if your hard drive fails, you can't just throw the drive in your weekly trash as there will be plenty of people who are able to recover content from the disc. So if you want to get rid of your PC, you need to wipe your drives in a way that cannot be reversed. One solution is Iolo Drive Scrubber which we're giving away with this issue of PCW.

Other highlights this issue include PC Tools Spyware Doctor 6 Starter Edition which will give your PC basic protection against the latest threats. If you want to put your company online, take a look at Actinic Catalog 9 LE.

If you have bought the DVD edition, you'll find Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.5 SE which will enable you to maintain and manage your drive. Other highlights include the latest Linux distributions, game demos and updated Resources.

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).