Ralph- Norton Ghost is a disk-imaging program, like Powerquest's Drive Image - very useful. I haven't used it, but it gets good reviews, and Drive Image has saved me a number of times, most recently on Monday, when a hardware failure fatally scrambled an installation of Windows 2000. Once the faulty pieces were replaced, I was able to restore the drive from an image I had just made. This was much faster than starting from scratch, reinstalling Windows, all the programs, and the user's data. Ghost is included in Norton Systemworks "Professional," but not in the standard edition. $29 for Ghost, Norton AV, and Norton Utilities (also useful) sounds like a very good deal to me. I hadn't realized that they wanted $20 to renew the annual update subscription for Systemworks, though - that's a little steep. I think they just want you to buy a whole new program.
The program that checked all of your software (not just the Norton stuff) for updates was a different beast. I forget what it was called -- I never used it, since I like to control this myself. Jon At 07:14 PM 3/19/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Anybody tried any of the new stuff they are peddling with Norton System >Works? My advice was that the price was reasonable just for a good >anti-virus program. I noted that the renewal fee on Anti-virus 2001 was >$20 while the renewal on Norton System Works 2000 was $10 (used to be >$4). Ghost sounds like an new version of 'Live Update' which they >foolishly extended to all programs on your computer a while back, but >fortunately went back to just letting you update the Norton >programs. When they first replaced LiveUpdate with a program that >checked every program in your computer and went out on the internet to >find updates for it, it was an incredibly slow (and unwanted) process. > Cheers, >Ralph Jonathan Falk Pine Tree Folk School RR 2, Box 7162 Carmel, ME 04419 (207)848-2433 <http://www.ptfolkschool.org> **Folkschool-list archives are at: <http://www.mint.net/folkschool/helpnet/archives.htm> Sponsored by Pine Tree Folk School ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84vzQ.a9gqS3 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
