Some of our better audio tracks are those that were remixed by other producers. However, you might feel that you could do something better or more suited to your taste. If you feel a track is slower than you'd like or feel it could be enhanced by a loop from another track, there's no reason why you couldn't remix the track yourself and then save it as a new track. As long as you don't make it available commercially or spread to other users without permission, you can do what you like with your own audio (DRM free) audio tracks.

With Computeractive 281 magazine, on-sale now, we're giving you the full version of MixVibes Home v6 which will enable you to mix together two different audio tracks and then output the result as a new track.

Computeractive 281 link.

Only yesterday we were busy telling you that Paragon had released Partition Manager 9 Express, which was a basic version of their partitioning software that enabled you to create, delete or resize a partition. It has all the basic tools required to manage your partitioning tasks. It's completely free for personal-use, too.

With the latest Computeractive magazine, issue 280, on-sale right now, we're giving you the full commercial version of Paragon Partition Manager 9 SE, which is based on the Personal edition and worth £21. The Personal edition will enable you to do more than just basic partitioning found in the Express edition. You can merge two existing partitions and make a backup of a partition, as well as cloning a partition or drive, so you can quickly move data to a new PC or larger drive.

Computeractive magazine, issue 280, link.

By now, I'm sure you're sick of us going on about how, after a period of time, your Registry will be cluttered with irrelevant information after using your PC to test and the uninstall new software. The problem is that the supplied uninstallers do not always remove all the file associations left behind by unwanted software. The result is that your PC can take far longer to boot than necessary. With the latest issue of Computeractive magazine, on-sale right now, you can get the full version of PC Tools Registry Mechanic 7, worth £30.

PC Tools Registry Mechanic 7 will examine your Registry and check for information that it thinks is safe to remove. In theory, this should speed up your PC with a more streamlined Registry. You can backup your current Registry so if you do experience problems, you can quickly restore your old database.

Computeractive issue 279 link.

Go out and buy your new PC and you'll find that it ships either pre-configured in various partitions that the manufacturer has decided is most suitable for your requirements or as one continuous block. Fear not, you can quickly and easily amend, create or delete partitions on any drive with commercial partition management software. Luckily for you, with the latest Christmas edition of PCW magazine, on-sale right now, you can get the full commercial version of Paragon Partition Manager 9 SE, worth £21.

Paragon Partition Manager 9 SE is all you need to manage your drive partitions, whether the drive is internal or connected externally. Use it to create, delete, merge or expand existing partitions. You could have a small system partition, then separate the rest of the drive so you have partitions for your work and media files.

PCW Christmas edition link.

There are times when you'll need to design an invitation, a company or group newsletter or even want to print address labels for your post. Either way, you could turn to a word processor, but as these tools are not page layout applications, you won't be able to get precise control over how elements are positioned on your page. It's far easier to use a desktop publishing tool where you simply drop in a box for an image, import the image and then move it to any location on the page.

With Computeractive magazine issue 278, on-sale now, you can get the full commercial version of Serif Page Plus 9, which is Vista compatible and worth £69. With this DTP tool you can quickly layout a page and even publish it as a commercial quality PDF document for printing.

Computeractive 278 link.

Purchase a recent edition of Windows and install it to your PC. You may believe that it spends time optimising to your components; it does not. You'll often find it installs vanilla versions of old drivers and configures your system for stability, rather than performance. There are also many hidden functions deep inside Windows, which Microsoft does not allow the average user to access. For this reason, you need a system tweaking and tuning tool.

With Computeractive 276 we're giving you the free full current version of Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2009 which will enable you to get even more from your installed copy of Windows XP or Vista. Open hidden areas, cleanse your system, tweak application settings and more.

Computeractive 276 link.