Some software has earned a permanent place on my computer - because it’s stable,  well done, useful. Here’s a new set I either didnt think of last year or which has earned the place since last year. If you try them and like them, please register them…

Regrun - watches what is happening on my pc and blocks anythig suspicious

Gamedrive - i got virtual drive with my soltek motherboard and liked it, but many modern games did not like it. Gamedrive can make a virtual CD of any game or software CD so that one does not need to juggle CDs anymore.

Acronis True Image I had DriveImage but it let me down (funny, the same happened with partition magic, powerquest is losing their touch if you ask me), This is a lot friendlier as it lets you get single files out of partition backups and works most of the time without even a reboot. Kudos!

Tuff Test - a floppy based diagnostics/burn in tool. Very good price to get semi professional diagnostics

Copernic - truly excellent web search tool.

Topstyle - I’m still only at version 2.5, have recently tested version 3 and will definitely upgrade when money is at a comfort level again. Style sheets are the way to go and this is the best style sheet tool i have tried. I registered it first as version 1, when it came with homesite. The new version 3 adds html editing (understanding php etc.) but lacks the quick editing tools for html (no keyboard shortcuts for tags yet etc.) that homesite had. Only a matter of time I suspect.