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Jan 6^th, 2004 at 12:50pm

Smoke2much Offline
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I was given Norton Utilities 2002 by my sister-in-law for Christmas. I installed it last night and ran the optimization program overnight.

Today I have had two lock-ups and an occasional crash to desktop whilst using normally stable programs. I am not saying that it was definately this program but virus scans indicate no problems.

I would therefore not recommend installation of this software to other members as until today I have had a six month period of amazing stability.

I have been forced to do a system restore etc.

Will

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Reply #1 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 12:59pm

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Hi Will

Opinions vary but I've been using Norton Utilities for years with no problems. In fact I swear by it. I soon realised that Disk Doctor causes problems when monitoring the system & disabled it. Otherwise it's fine.

This might depend on your system. I'm on WinMe & I'm not sure when XP was first released. NU 2002 sounds a little old now. I would have thought the latest version would be named NU 2003 or even 2004. It might be worth checking out.

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Reply #2 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 1:04pm

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Fair comment, I'm running XP home which is where the issue probably came in.... I'm glad someone gets some use from it.

Will

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Reply #3 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 1:17pm

Hagar Offline
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I just did a quick search & I think 2002 is the current version. I did find out it's compatible with WinXP.

I disable all the auto checking features & run the different utilities only when I need them. I always found that works best. These auto features run constantly in the background & actually slow down your system. Of course, I have no idea how it would work on XP or if it's really necessary. Roll Eyes

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