66 JANUARY2020|COMPUTERSHOPPER|ISSUE383
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REGISTERYOURSOFTWARE
BY12thDECEMBER2019
STEGANOSSAFEISaversatile tool that aims to
protect your most important files in asecure
encrypted vault. Youcan create this vault on a
system drive,but it’s also possible to use an external
drive or USB key, enabling youtokeep your files
safeasyou carrythem around.
The vault is protected by apassword,and
Steganos Safegoes to alot of trouble to ensure it’s
as secure as possible. Forinstance,enter apassword
manually and the program checks to make sure it
doesn’t contain any dictionary words. There’s also
apassword generator to automatically create
something reallyuncrackable,and youcan even
use pictures as your password.
Onceyour vaultisgenerated, it’s available in
Explorer as another drive.You can create folders,
copy, move or storedata there and everything works
like yourotherdrives. Butthe difference here is
Steganos Safeencryptsdata as it’s saved,ensuring
only someone with the password cangainaccess.
Youcan even createa‘hiddensafe’,where asmall
safe(less than 3GB) is hidden inside an audio or
video file. Snoopers might seeamedia file, andbe
abletoplayitasusual, but onlyyou will be able to
access the data it contains.
Cloud storagesupport also enables safes in
yourDropbox, OneDrive or Google Driveaccounts,
and thefeature set is rounded outwith a
comprehensive Shredder,securely deletingany
remnants of confidential files to ensure they can’t
be recovered later.
SteganosSafe20
REQUIREMENTSWindows 7, 8or10; 150MBharddisk space
WEBSITEwww.steganos.com
NOTESGetyourregistration code at safe20.disc.computershopper.co.uk
REQUIREMENTSWindows XP,Vista,7,8,10;
100MBhard disk space
WEBSITEwww.easeus.com
NOTESGetyourregistration code at
pctrans.disc.computershopper.co.uk
THISPLEASANTLYSIMPLEwizard-based tool
makes it easy to transfer data from an old PC to
anew one.
To use the program, youmust be able to
connectbothsystems to the same network;wired
or wireless both work fine,aslongasboth PCs are
running Windows XP or later.The new system
should have thesame or a
later versionofWindows,
and enough hard disk
space to handle whatever
you throw at it.
Once thisisset up,
everything else is relatively
straightforward.Install
Todo PCTrans on both
your oldand new
computers; tell the
program whichPCis
EaseUSTodoPCTrans
Professional9.7
the source and which is the destination, and select
the files you’d like to transfer.
Youcan transfer the data through anumber of
options. Simply connect bothPCs to your local
networkand select the remotecomputer or,ifthis
isn’t possible, writethe data to an imagefile and
then simply loadthe fileonthe remote/new
computer. Alternatively,if
you can connect an external
USBdrive,use this to
transfer your installeddata.
There’s an option to
remap your drives,so, for
example, aC:\Backups
folder could be transferred
to D:\Backups on thenew
PC: useful if you’restoring
yourdata on aseparate
internal storage drive.
