Start Norton Utilities and it will do a quick scan on your computer and offer up some helpful advice. Looking at the settings though you will find it also hunts for invalid uninstallers (yes, those applications that are removed but stay behind in your Programs list), Dynamic-link library (DLL) registrations, fonts and sounds. No harm in allowing Norton Utilities to remove those. I don’t usually recommend blindly cleaning up the registry as it is one of the most important data on a Windows system, so it is good to see the software has an option to list the items to be cleaned – in my case it mostly found unused software associations and unused software keys (leftovers from old software no longer in the system). It also counts browser cache files and registry issues. Things like Windows temporary files, items in recycle bin as well as broken shortcuts, memory dump files and Windows reporting files. The main dashboard appears when you start Norton Utilities and it is easy to understand, showing possible issues on your computer. You don’t get a utility to change colours on your 24 x 80 characters DOS screen anymore, but you will still find the disk optimisation utility there.
NortonLifeLock produces the Norton Antivirus software and Norton Utilities, which in its current version is compatible with Windows 7/8/10 and 11.
It was bought by Symantec in 1990 and when Broadcom bought the enterprise security side of the business the consumer side of the business took a life of its own NortonLifeLock. The Peter Norton Computing company no longer exists. But Norton Utilities evolved too and when offered a review copy now, I thought why not?
Over the years a few competitors appeared, and I remember using PC Tools for Windows on my Windows for Workgroup installs. It included tools to recover deleted files, change the screen colours, sort the floppy disc directory, print files and even a disk optimiser to speed up access to files on those slow floppy disks. Norton Utilities had everything a command-line user could want. Forty years ago, in 1982 Peter Norton Computing released a small suite of utilities for the DOS platform.
0 kommentar(er)
