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The best way to test drive a new operating system before installing it on your hard drive as the main environment is to run it in a virtual environment. Here we show you how to do so for Windows 10 including older versions such as Vista, 7, 8, 8.1.

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Norton Ghost was good but it wasn't free and has long since been discontinued. Here we will show you 3 free applications that can make full backups of your entire Windows install and how to create an image of your system with each one.

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Kaspersky has a free utility designed to provide on-demand scans and remove all types of virus infection, it is called Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool (AVPTool). Sadly you cannot update the definitions in AVPTool, but here is a way you can do it.

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The Portable Document Format is a cross platform way to distribute documents or ebooks. An easy and popular way to edit a PDF file is convert it to the Office Word format first. Here we look at a number of free online and software PDF to Word converters to see which ones give good results.

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One Windows annoyance is when you use the option safely remove a USB device, to remount the device, you normally have to unplug and insert it again to be recognized. Here we show you 5 solutions to remount your USB device without having to remove it from the USB port.

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When Windows or your hard drive fails, it makes sense having a backup image of the whole system to hand. Because of the sizes involved, it's important to have an imaging application that creates a small backup and be fast to do it. Here we test 20 applications to see how efficient they are at backing up your system.

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