Norton Utilities 2002

[Smoke2much]

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

[Hagar]

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.

[Smoke2much]

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

[Hagar]

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.