In Depth: 10 best tech comebacks of all time

Sometimes the right person, product or company can be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Brilliant ideas can be buried by bean-counters, the brightest firms can become bogged down in bureaucracy, and fickle fashions can doom perfectly decent designs.

Sometimes, though, the world of tech gives them a second chance — and the comebacks can be anything from amusing to awe-inspiring. These are our favourite tech comebacks. Have we missed any of your favourites?

In Depth: 10 best free lightweight troubleshooting tools

Figuring out exactly why a PC isn't working can be a complicated process, even for experts - there's just so much that can go wrong.

Our latest collection of Tiny Tools can help, though, by providing easy access to hundreds of lightweight, (mostly) portable and free utilities.

Whether you're suffering unexpected crashes or internet issues, Windows update or performance problems, there's something here to help you restore your system to normal working order.

And they're not just for geeks. Many of these tools are so simple that just about anyone can use them to troubleshooting their system problems.

In Depth: Are solid state drives ready for the big time?

Storage is the final frontier of PC performance; CPUs and graphics chips have long marched to the drum beat of inexorable performance improvements. Not hard drives, however.

Granted, storage capacities have grown so fast you can now fit the combined wealth of all human knowledge on a £50 drive. Well, just about. But performance has only inched forward incrementally.