This month, it's time to take a look at them all together in one location. I think these are tools you'll definitely want in your Windows CE Survival Kit.

Remember Norton Utilities and PCTools back in the old DOS days? Remember how, once you installed them, you couldn't remember how you got along without them? [Although, arguably, the Windows versions of both these products, since acquired by Symantec, have never really lived up to their early DOS glory and utility. - DG]

With BSquare's bUSEFUL Utilities Pak for H/PC's and Palm-size PCs, which includes 12 easy-to-use and helpful utilities, you'll feel very much the same. Let's look at each one briefly.

• bUSEFUL Backup Plus: avoid critical data loss by backing up all or portions of your data. Back up to and restore from a desktop, network, or even a storage card.

• bUSEFUL Analyzer: analyze and benchmark your system.

• bUSEFUL FindSpace: optimize device performance by freeing up memory. Delete duplicate files, invalid shortcuts, temporary files, cache files, and more.

• bUSEFUL Script: Automate and schedule common tasks such as logging onto ISP.

• bUSEFUL ListPlus: Track projects and tasks with this hierarchical list management program.

• bUSEFUL Launch: Create a customized start menu to quickly access your important items. This is quite useful. A little rocket icon gets added to your task tray. You can add all sorts of documents, and even customize how the menu is structured.

• bUSEFUL Notepad: Create and edit text files. Not particularly unique, but a helpful addition.

• bTASK: Navigate between and close applications.

• bUSEFUL HTML Editor: Create, edit, and save HTML files. Much of the same code is probably shared with bUSEFUL Notepad.

• bUSEFUL UUEncode: Convert files to UUEncoded format to send and receive large emails.

• bFIND: Find anything on your PC Companion with this global search utility.

• bUSEFUL MoonPhase: Track the phases of the moon.

Backup Plus, bTASK, FindSpace, bFIND and Launch are worth the $79.00 price of admission alone, and I think the other utilities are great too, especially the benchmark one (similar to Norton's SysInfo utility). Visit http://www.bsquare.com for more information.