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Depending on when you’re reading this, Microsoft is either about to end support for Windows 10 or has just done so. It may even have declared the whole thing an elaborate ruse to get more people to us

Businesses seeking a dedicated backup solution for protecting virtualised environments will find Hornetsecurity’s VM Backup has lots of appeal. Along with support for VMware, Hyper-V and the increasin

It’s tempting to think that deleting a file means it’s gone forever – but that’s not really the case. Data can often be recovered from your hard drive for a long time after it’s supposedly been erased

My ageing Windows 10 laptop has something modern machines rarely offer: a built-in DVD drive. I have loads of films and home movies on DVD and I don’t want to lose the ability to play these or rip the

The great thing about online-storage services like Dropbox is that they ‘just work’. Once you’ve installed the software, they get on with the job for years. Unless you run out of space, that is, at wh

What you need: Flyoobe Time required: Three hours In Issue 178’s ‘Windows 10 survival guide’ (buy a back issue from www.snipca. com/56396), we recommended Flyoobe (www.snipca.com/56372) as the best wa