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    Microsoft provides Uptime to help you track your server's reliability. But have you noticed that it doesn't always produce the right answers or displays errors?

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    UK-based Waycam Technologies has launched a set of data recovery tools that can add the System Restore facility to older versions of Windows.

  • Microsoft weaves new photo tool into Windows

    Microsoft likes digital photography enthusiasts as customers, and plans to release a free new utility designed to keep them wedded to Windows.

  • Microsoft denies Automatic Update flaw

    Blogs were buzzing last week with reports that Windows users who thought they had automatic updates set to either not install or get permission before installing nonetheless had their machines patched and rebooted.

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    Windows Vista comes with a hard disk imaging utility, called Complete PC Backup, that can create an image file that contains the complete contents and structure of a hard disk.

  • Understanding Uptime's limits

    Microsoft provides Uptime to help you track your server's reliability. But have you noticed that it doesn't always produce the right answers or displays errors?

  • Windows 95, 98 get system restore

    UK-based Waycam Technologies has launched a set of data recovery tools that can add the System Restore facility to older versions of Windows.

  • Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007

    Welcome to the CIO Vision Series and congratulations to Cesare Tizi, who was awarded the ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year award for 2007. Tizi was recognised for the work he did while successfully leading Australia's largest energy supplier, AGL Energy, through a period of intense change.

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    A wide range of encryption features and an easy-to-use interface make PKZip for Windows 8.0 a friendly compression utility for all users.

  • Acronis Partition Expert 10

    Repartitioning a disk usually involves loss of data and from our own experience, re-installing an OS on a laptop without using the recovery CD can be a nightmare. Acronis's answer to this is Partition Expert 10, a utility which lets you repartition disk drives without the headaches.

  • System Mechanic 7 Professional

    System Mechanic 7 Professional goes beyond its original greatness, morphing a system utility suite into a kind of grand security suite. As such, it comes up short.

  • WinZip 10 Pro

    WinZip 10 is a good, user-friendly choice for archiving and backing up files, but for advanced business features, look elsewhere.

  • Windows XP: Six months on

    Is Windows XP meeting your expectations or causing more exasperation than you bargained for?

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