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Norton SystemWorks 2001

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Norton SystemWorks 2001 Professional edition

Suite of system utilities. Rs 4,350



Features: All popular Norton products bundled into one, including Norton AntiVirus, Norton CleanSweep, Norton Ghost, Norton Utilities, and Norton WinFax Basic.


Pros: Easy-to-use interface for all products.


Cons: None.


Source: Symantec


Hermes Business Center


13B Bhaktawar Towers


229 Nariman Point


Mumbai 400012. 


Tel: 22-2828613/14 


E-mail: vpai@symantec.com


 Website: www.symantec.com









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Norton SystemWorks 2001 is a suite of all the popular Norton products

required to keep your system in good shape. These include the 2001 versions of

Norton AntiVirus, CleanSweep, Utilities, Ghost, and WinFax Basic. Since these

products themselves don’t need any introduction, we’ll talk about the new

features they offer as part of SystemWorks.

SystemWorks is simple to use as it has one interface from where you can

access all Norton applications. It offers you three options for installation.

One is a ‘typical’ installation where SystemWorks installs the standard set

of programs and tries to balance between right protection and utilization of

system resources. Another option is ‘express’ where it installs the product

with the most commonly-used settings. Finally, the ‘complete’ installation

option installs everything.

The 2001 version of Norton AntiVirus can scan your incoming e-mail for

viruses before you open them. If you have multiple accounts, it will display

them for you to choose from. It also gives you an overall system status on

viruses, which includes letting you know if real-time protection is enabled and

if the system virus scan has been run fully. Other options include scheduling

scans and generating reports.

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Norton Utilities includes Speed Disk for defragmenting your hard drive, Disk

Doctor for diagnosing and repairing your hard drives, System Doctor to

continuously monitor your system, and finally WinDoctor that checks for Windows

problems on your system. It also has the UnErase Wizard to help you retrieve

deleted files from your system.

Norton CleanSweep can be used for cleaning up your PC of any unwanted

applications or data, and Internet clutter like ActiveX controls, cookies,

plug-ins and the Internet cache. You can compress infrequently used applications

or move existing applications to another system, and find and clean up

duplicate, orphan, and redundant files.

SystemWorks has support for Windows Me and Windows 2000. Unfortunately,

Norton CrashGuard, which was available in the earlier version, has vanished from

this one. Finally, the LiveUpdate feature lets you know when to connect to the

Internet and update the products in SystemWorks. At Rs 4,350, Norton SystemWorks

is worth its price.

Ankur Saxena at PCQ Labs

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