Keep your comp running smoooooooth... Review on Norton Utilities

Norton Utilites is one of the best utility software that you can use to keep your computer running smoothly, quickly and trouble free.

Norton Utilities 2002 comes with the following components:

Optimize Performance

Speed Disk

Speed Disk is the fastest, most efficient way to optimize your hard disks. Speed Disk defragments files and rearranges them for fastest access. It even defragments and optimizes the Windows swap file. It scans your primary hard disk and recommends an optimization based on the amount of file fragmentation.

Norton Optimization Wizard improves computer performance by optimizing several critical elements of Windows, viz. the swap file and the registry.

Find and Fix Problems

Norton System Doctor continuously monitors your computer to keep it free of problems and running at peak efficiency. It can alert you immediately when conditions require attention, and can fix many problems automatically, without interrupting your work. It monitors just about every aspect of your computer system, including the disks, memory, CPU, and network.

Unerase Wizard

This can help recover files that you have accidently deleted, even from the recycle bin. It can also recover many files from a formatted drive.

Norton Disk Doctor diagnoses and repairs a variety of disk problems. It performs several tests, checking everything from the disk's partition table to its physical surface. If Norton Disk Doctor finds a problem, it notifies you before making repairs. If you check Automatically Fix Errors, Norton Disk Doctor makes the necessary repairs automatically.

Norton WinDoctor is the safe and easy way to diagnose and repair the most common types of Windows problems. It checks all the information necessary for Windows to run properly. Plus it checks for components needed by programs that run under Windows.

Norton System Check provides an immediate or scheduled system checkup. Norton System Check finds disk problems and Windows problems, it can improve performance, and it can give your computer a preventative maintenance checkup. It performs all the tests by Norton Windoctor.

System Maintenance

System Information gives you detailed information about your computer, the peripherals keyboard, mouse, printers, and multimedia devices attached to your computer, and your network connections, as well as the freespace and detailed folder-wise distribution of the occupied space on your drives.

Wipe Info

Wipe data securely from your computer.

Image

Saves a ''snapshot'' of the disks critical information.

Norton File Compare

Compare the different versions of your files

Registry Management

Norton Registry Editor

Navigate and edit the registry. A good alternative to regedit.

Norton Registry Tracker

Track and restore changes made in your Windows Registry

Which tools should you regularly use?

On a regular scale you should use Norton System Check at once a week. It checks all aspects of your computer, including fragmentation levels of your drives. Click the Repair all button to automatically correct errors in the drive. Make sure that you shut down all unnecessary programs before you run this. It helps speed up the process.

Where can I find this program?

You can buy the program from https://symantec.com or from your local computer store.

Download a trial version of Norton Utilities 2001 (not 2002- many features are same) from https://tucows.com/system/preview/195903.html

Check out this program. This is one must have!!!