Hello, I got systemworks a few months back when I was having that trouble defragging my computer that I had written about earlier on this list. I kind of wish I'd just gotten Utilities (I already had AV). I haven't loved the systemworks.
The defragger does work- so that's good. But it hasn't fixed whatever is messed up on my system. It does its scan, and it tells me there are two errors in my registry and asks if I want to fix them. I say yes, and it says it has fixed one and I should run WinDoctor for the other one - I do and it says it's fixed. But as soon as I run the scan again (even if its immediately) the exact same thing happens. Also, it "protects" my recycle bin. BUT that function doesn't work - when I open the recycle bin and try to get something that's in it, it can't create the list of what's in there - it says that some other program has been writing to the disk (hmmmmm - this is what the Windows defragger was telling me and why it kept restarting and never getting to the end - it's a mystery to me!). I had to fool around with it quite a bit to figure out how to get it to just act like a normal recycle bin so I could get stuff out of it again (I've never had trouble with that, since I empty my recycle bin manually, not every time the computer closes - so I found it very ironic that installing this "protection" actually prevented me from recovering things from the bin. And the funny thing was that I almost never need to recover anything from the trash, but this one time it came up just after I installed the systemworks. I was highly amused by the whole scenario). So, that's been my experience with it. I think at least some of it is a problem with my computer, not the program. But I think its odd that it keeps telling me it has fixed these things and nothing changes. -cynthia -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [folkschool-list] [Fwd: Fw: Save 90% on Norton Software] 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 **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 ==^================================================================
