Norton systemworks 2002 review

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Internet Explorer 5. Xbox Registry Tips. Program Tips. Easter Eggs. But it has an awkward interface that does not display the repairs it proposes to make until you open each item individually. Nor does WinDoctor sort repairs by relative safety levels.

The System Maintenance page includes a comprehensive System Information tool. But SystemSuite is a step ahead, offering highly useful hardware-testing features. The WipeInfo program on the same page offers government-security-level deletions of individual files.

But it doesn't even warn you about other copies of the same data that might be hidden in the swap file or in free drive space. And in Windows XP, WipeInfo lacks the option to clean free space on your hard drive, which means that its security can be illusory. If you choose to repair the errors it detects you can let it repair them automatically or you can choose the best repairing option.

Sure a backup is generated and in case of problem you can restore it to get rid of the conflict that appeared. Indeed changing or modifying the registry is always a risky job. Norton Optimization Wizard: here is another good utility from Norton Utilities , available only under Windows 9x : this tool is aimed to compress your registry file and defragment your swap file.

Compressing the registry makes it much smaller so it can boost your computer. Norton Unerase Wizard: this tool is the guardian of your recycle bin! It works almost all the time but can be unable to retrieve very old deleted files. However it really slows down Windows. Too bad! N orton System Doctor: To my mind this tool is absolutely useless.

It monitors in real time your computer status by showing vital information like available memory, free hard disk space, hard disk SMART status and more. Norton System Doctor click to enlarge. It displays information about the bios, the ram, the motherboard and more and can also tests your computer with its included benchmarking tool.

Best of the all, the memory status panel shows you every different task that is running on your system as well as their memory occupation: a dynamic graph also shows the percentage of used memory.

The disk tab shows the percentage of occupied space of each of your hard drives: if you select a specific folders Sysinfo will tell you how much space the folder takes on your HD.

Strangely in this new release the multimedia-benchmarking tool has disappeared. Using System Information you can print reports about each areas of your system easily: a great feature for system administrators that need to dig into PC configurations to solve problems. Norton System Information click to enlarge.

The new release not available under W2K or XP provides the same diagnostic features that help you detect potential problems on your hardware.

You can test the motherboard, the sound card, the memory, the CD-Rom drive, the keyboard, the speakers, the printer, the modem, the video adapter, the mouse and more. Some of the tests are customizable like the mobo one where you can choose which feature of the motherboard you want to test.

Norton WipeInfo: WipeInfo is here to help you ensure all the data you erased from your hard disk is properly erased. Norton WipeInfo click to enlarge. The files that are generated by the tool are small and should be created to ensure accurate restoration phase. Norton FileCompare: Norton File Compare not available under W2K or XP lets advanced users compare their files bytes per bytes and see what may differ between two apparently similar files.

Everything is clearly shown and you can search for specific information or print the file contents. All Rights Reserved. Please click here for full terms of use and restrictions or read our Light Tower Privacy Statement. Norton CleanSweep This version is now totally integrated into the Norton range of software and continues to excel when cleaning PC hard drives or uninstalling software. Unfortunately no new features were added to this release. CleanSweep offers different features to remove clutter from your hard drive:.

Uninstall: even if it lost interest with Windows 95 and the generalization of uninstall programs, CleanSweep can uninstall a program itself using its own database and smart features by removing files, associations, registry entries as well as shortcuts.

Any removed program can be backed up so if ever a problem occurs or you need it back you can retrieve it easily. Norton CleanSweep Uninstall Wizard click to enlarge. Move: You can choose to move software from a folder of your hard drive to another one using CleanSweep. Move to another computer : Here is a top notch feature that grabs every file that are needed by a specific program as well as system entries so you can install your program on an other computer easily: we tested this feature with software like LiveMotion, PaintShop Pro and it really worked great.

Backup Wizards : CleanSweep offers the ability to backup a program in a compressed file or to backup several different programs in a single compressed file.

It also works great and as with every feature of CleanSweep you are guided with a wizard to make sure what you do is right. CleanSweep fast cleanup: this tool is intended to detect quickly which files are superfluous on your system and can be removed safely to retrieve some hard disk space.

Internet CleanUp: CleanSweep now manages Internet clutters and with one sweep pass it can cleans it up! The first feature offered by the Internet module of CleanSweep is to uninstall programs that were downloaded from the net. As always, users are guided by a wizard to choose which program they want to remove.