One of the best things about the internet and modern technology is that they’ve made music more accessible than ever. Many thousands of us have ripped all of our most precious albums to computer se we can enjoy them wherever we go. The trouble with doing this? Once you’ve got through the first 100 albums, you might notice file organisation is a problem. Poorly labelled tracks, missing artist names and misspelled albums can make searching difficult. Mp3tag can help.

The more you use a computer, the slower that computer will function over time. This is a fact, and no matter how much care you take to maintain you file system, micromanagement of things like the cache files are often totally out of your control. KCleaner can help by automating the process of file maintenance, not only clearing files from windows systems but also from popular software applications, too.

Once upon a time, people were perfectly happy to install hard drives with a maximum capacity of less than 1 GB. Nowadays with operating systems alone taking up five times that, we’ve increased the standard size of a hard drive to over over 100 GB, with many computer users having between 500 GB – 1 TB of space. With all that extra capcity, our files are getting harder and harder to organise and keep track of. FlexTk aims to make file management easy with its range of tools designed to quickly maintain even the biggest file systems.

Jv16 is an all-in-one system maintenance tool for Windows. Its features are generally geared towards cleaning, repairing and retaining your registry and file system and it can quickly complete tasks that would otherwise take hours. The software was previously only available on a trial basis and cost $30 to purchase. However, the program has recently become freeware, so it’s time for us to take a look at what the software can do.

Sometimes we don’t need to know anything about our computers except how many resources they have available. Sometimes we need to delve a little deeper in order to install new hardware or software, or diagnose any problems. Rarely, we have a need to look at the full information about our computer or a part of it — from the GUID of our network card to the size of our processors Instructions cache. For those situations there’s the excellent – although unoriginally named – System Information for Windows.

Notebook Hardware Control lets you customize various aspects of your portable system in order to conserve battery life, cool down the system or monitor the hardware.

Paragon Drive Backup Express is a hard disk file backup solution that can provide complete and full backups of both your entire hard drive and individual partitions.

Piriform Defraggler is an application which allows you to defrag your drives that provides a far wider range of options and settings than Windows’ default defrag program.

Comodo System Cleaner is a cleanup utility that incorporates a registry cleaner, disk cleaner and privacy cleaner, allowing you to maintain all of the ‘deep’ parts of your system with ease.

MozBackup allows you to backup and restore your profile over a variety of Mozilla applications, including the popular Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client.