Symantec Systemworks Professional 2004 Sucks

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Alexander J. Sagady

About 2 weeks ago I installed the brand
new Symantec Systemworks Professional 2004
on my Windows 2000 Professional machine with
service pack 4 installed.

This was after Systemworks Professional 2001
hard drive defragmentation would no longer work
after upgrading to MS Windows 2000 service pack 4.

For this entire 2 weeks I've been struggling
because Systemworks Professional 2004 brought
my system to its knees.

It caused repeated crashes of Eudora Pro 6 with
NTDLL.DLL errors and unhandled exceptions.

It caused Corel Word Perfect 9 to have repeated
lockups and slow operation. In fact, most of
my application software ran a lot slower while
Systemworks Professional 2004 was installed. Other
packages that were previously reliable under
prior installed versions of Systemworks were now
unstable. And it was clearly not an artifact of
Service pack 4 as all of these problems started only
after Systemworks Professional 2004 was installed.

I think Symantec is no long a consumer/user-friendly
company and their latest Systemworks product really sucks.
It doesn't even have all of the features that Systemworks
Professional 2001 had.

Screw Symantec....time to try another vendor of utilities....
....any suggestions?

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Alexander J. Sagady said:
I think Symantec is no long a consumer/user-friendly
company and their latest Systemworks product really sucks.
It doesn't even have all of the features that Systemworks
Professional 2001 had.
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What started as a small, efficient set of DOS utilities has become
an incredibly bloated, intrusive and incompatible mess. Norton
Utilities didn't stand a chance once Symantec bought them.
Screw Symantec....time to try another vendor of utilities....
...any suggestions?
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Figure out exactly which utilities you want or need, then seek
out individual utilities for each, e.g. Raxco's PerfectDisk and
O&O Defrag are both excellent disk defragmenters.

Rick
 
True. The original Norton Utilities when they were developed by Peter Norton did have a few good points. But the effort by Symantec to take these utilitties out of character mode and into Windows mode has well resulted in their problems.

My suggestion is bone up on the NT platform. And when you have an issue that you think Norton might be good at then ask here first and we'll see what we can do. The best System Works you have is your noggin'. Honestly.

But the best thing to do is live and learn as you have done. Hopefully you will know now never to install a Norton product. You've learned that. That is valuable. There will be other things you will install in the future that result in a reinstall or you will learn how to get rid of it using your noggin.'

Let me give you an example of what I am talking about. I found UWIN at AT&T. This is to give me the Korn Shell in Windows 2000. Upon reboot my abiltiy to type on the keyboard was all screwed up. The keys as they are printed and what resulted on the screen were quite different. To relay on Norton to fix something like this is just compounding the trouble. Let's think about it. Let's try updating the Keyboard drivers. Don't uninstall or put anything new on the machine just update the drivers that are already fine. And make sure Microsoft's Text Services aren't screwing around. This fixed the trouble.
 
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