Acronis Power Utilities 2004

Integrating a suite of system utilities, Acronis Power Utilities helps you manage your computer and protects your privacy. Comprehensive and easy to use, it helps you create backups, clean your system, configure and manage hard drives and partitions and many more.
MigrateEasy helps you transfer your existing partitions or data to a new hard disk, make the new hard disk bootable and create new partitions on both hard disk drives for your operating systems.
Acronis DiskEditor is a quite professional program which allows you to restore boot records and files and folders structure, to find lost clusters, and even to remove computer viruses' code from a disk.
Acronis Privacy expert keeps your data secured from any intrusions. It include a spyware removal tool, a pop-up blocker to keep you safe from Internet intruders, and also paging file cleaner, drive cleanser and file shredder which ensure of the fact that once deleted, your data is not recoverable by any means.
Acronis Recovery Expert allows you to completely recover deleted partitions. If you suffered a virus attack or somehow you cannot boot up your system as a result of a serious crash, Acronis Recovery Expert will help you recover all your critical system areas and undelete partitions.

Pluses: All applications include comprehensive wizards which will guide you without hassle through the selected tasks.

Drawbacks / flaws: The applications are not integrated into a all-in-one user interface. The antispy and pop-up blocker seem to be redundant components, since most of antivirus programs integrate antispy and ad blocking components. System stability problems might occur after uninstalling the product.

In conclusion: Compact, easy to use and effective, Acronis Power Utilities represents a good alternative to Norton System Works.

version reviewed: 2004