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Norton 2000

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Peter Norton is a household name when it

comes to utilities and fixes for your PC. Small wonder then, that he brings to you

what’s billed as the best way to prepare your PC and data for the Year 2000. Limited

to PCs running Win 95/98 and NT, the CD is self-installing with little or no user input

required. The start screen offers you the choice to scan your applications and data using

a window with traffic-light indicators and VCR-type buttons.

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You can either perform all the

operations–system date checks, data files checks, etc–manually, or through a

wizard.

The system date test detects problems in

the BIOS with reference to the change of the century. If a problem is detected, it alerts

you, and the BIOS-Fix program lets you rectify the error. The program checks the rollover

to January 1, 2000, making sure that 2000 appears as a leap year, and 2004 again is shown

as a leap year. The BIOS Fix is memory resident and writes the relevant line into the

config.sys file so that it activates on boot-up. In fact, you can prepare a boot-up disk

to check the system from a cold boot, so that problems can be identified.

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Norton 2000

Software for Y2k compliance. Rs

1,039

Features:

Features: Installs RTC fix; supports

system date test, application scan, data file scan; generates detailed reports.

Pros:

Easy to install and use; Web

updates available regularly. Easy to install and use; Web

updates available regularly.

Cons:

Available for Windows only. Available for Windows only.

Source:

Godrej Pacific Technology Plant

19a, Pirojshanagar, Vikhroli (W), Mumbai 400079. Tel: 22-5171166/5171177 Fax: 5170415 Godrej Pacific Technology Plant

19a, Pirojshanagar, Vikhroli (W), Mumbai 400079. Tel: 22-5171166/5171177 Fax: 5170415

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The application scan identifies

applications on your hard drive with known Y2k problems and generates a report. It gives

links to the sites where you can read more about it, or download the fixes. It also gives

you a list of software that are not Y2k compliant, and a set of applications that their

makers have pronounced compliant.

The data file scan scans your drive for

files with date fields or entries that might cause problems. There are various levels of

color-coded severity mentioned. Where possible, a sample of the data is also listed. It

also detects the affected Visual Basic modules.

It then generates a report that can also be

printed. One extra reporting feature that’s quite indispensable is the color-coded

spreadsheet. It colors the cells in your affected spreadsheet according to their severity

level. Rolling the mouse over a colored cell pops up a box with the annotations for that

problem. One can also do a selective scan for data files by modifying the settings in the

menu.

The Live Update feature allows you to

regularly update the software from Norton’s knowledge base of applications and

program updates on the Web. This helps to keep your program up-to-date and usable.

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