Minimum cost, maximum use. This month's brings you 50 selected tools that will make working with Windows easy and ensure a fast, stable and secure system. Plus, you'll end up saving some money. There are five main categories from which we picked software for readers. They include Hardware, Optimization Tuning, Privacy, Backup and Recovery. The applications found under Hardware will optimize the hard disk and the mainboard, and you can also keep an eye on things that could get too hot. Optimization of Windows makes the system run faster and improves its efficiently. Anyway, if you are tired of the same old Windows XP look, jazz it up with 3D effects.

Backups have a reputation for being complicated. Furthermore, they eat away at storage space that could have been put to better use for storing photos or music, and in many cases people just forget to create one. Even if you do have a backup copy, chances are that it doesn't have the one file you do need. Call it Murphy's Law. Now, we'll teach you how to secure small files on a USB stick or on the Internet, and backup larger ones to an external hard disk . And if your PC doesn't detect the hard disk anymore, all your songs, videos and images disappear; if you haven't taken a backup of them, then there is only one thing left to ~o: tryout the recovery tools available on this month's with which, you can not only recover deleted files, but can also repair damaged ones.

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ID thieves are sneaky and resourceful¬and their numbers are rapidly increasing. Over the years, novice hackers have turned professionals in this field. All they do is ferret out and collect information about Web users. They have the capability to exploit even the minutest traces which a Web surfer leaves behind and succeed in tracking him down. The gathered scraps of information are made into profiles, sold to marketing firms or misused by individuals.

However, don't resign yourself to the fact somebody will cash up on your data. There are a good number of services and tools which protect your privacy on the Web and help you surf the Internet safely.