John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Sat Feb 19 12:22:55 CST 2005
Oops, I should've re-subjected this message. John B. I bought System Works Premier 2005 a couple months ago - it includes Ghost 9. (BTW Symantec recently bought PowerQuest) Also Partition Magic is now a Norton product but is not included in System Works. -One Button Checkup is improved and no longer causes lockups (Whew-who! Who would've thought it would in the first place?!) -System Doctor (I don't use this resource hog) -Speed Disk seems the same. -Unerase Wizard seems the same. -Disk Doctor presents messages on start-up that most people would get a bit nervous over. Such as "Disk 1 doesn't contain a valid bootable partition..." and gives the option to fix it. I believe this is the age old conflict between Partition Magic and Disk Doctor which you would have thought Symantec would correct since they own both now. Also if you choose automatically fix disk errors it tells you it can't do it until you reboot and then that takes quite a while to do during boot up (I think it might use XP's built in disk utilities anyway. Problem is that is does this regardless if there are any errors to fix or not. If you don't check the automatically fix it runs fine. If you have errors you then have to redo it and tell it to fix on reboot. Logic is not included in this sequence. It should scan first and if and only if it finds errors - inform you that it can't fix without rebooting and ask if you wan to schedule the fix for the next reboot. -System Information seems the same. -Wipe Info seems the same. -Norton Registry Editor is gone. I used to use it because it had a find and replace function and a nice bookmark function. -Password Manager (which now a separate product but integrates into SystemWorks once installed-I got it free with my order) is a waste of time. It works great at first but now it rarely does the fill-in for me and has all my passwords encrypted so I can even manually type them it fails to do it for me. Probably the result of some conflict with AV or some other security product but my Google toolbar fill-in feature works all the time so I don't think this is an acceptable excuse. -Norton Ghost (I forget now-who did they buy this from yet?) 9 can now read Drive Image images. It seems that it is fast becoming Symantec's personal backup product too. I wonder how this will stand given they just bought Veritas. A tech at one of my subs recently mentioned that Ghost 9 doesn't create bootable CDs. I haven't verified that but that may be a limitation. (I believe in the past that you had to run Ghost from a floppy disk and it loaded drivers that let you access a CD drive.) Ghost 9 includes Ghost 2003 on the CD for Windows 9x, Me, NT, Linux and DOS. It can't read Drive Image images. -Norton Cleanup basically replaces Clean Sweep (which they inherited when they bought Quarterdeck) and Norton Web Cleanup includes tools to remove cookies urls, cached files, temporary files and MRUs. You can figure it can easily to not erase certain items. It no longer includes tools to cleanup duplicates files, dlls, screensavers, fonts, and other assorted collectables. -Norton Go Back (which they bought from Roxio) version 4 which look much improved but I haven't installed yet because I didn't have room for its stash area. (I recently added another hard drive so I will be able to finally). I never much to complain about in the past version so unless they "broke it" it should be fine. -Norton Anti-virus 2005 which is a very good product that I don't have installed right now due to testing CA's EZ anti-virus. It includes a few Extras Features. Generally these are items that they recently purchased, are thinking about purchasing or haven't figured out how to incorporate into their UI. 2005 includes: System Optimizer _ basically a "Windows Tweak" type of program; Process Viewer; Performance Test; Connection Keep Alive; Check Diagnostics (from Smith Micro) for hardware testing. (Most larger PC manufacturers have a derivation of this included either on their system utilities CD or as a download anyway.) Norton Utilities seems to have been forgotten in Symantec's acquisition frenzy. Vcom's System Utilities work much better as a replacement. However the other components in System Works are all fine products with a few quirks here and there. I do think they should include Partition Magic in the suite. John B. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Carbonnell Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 9:20 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Replace Hard Drive On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:24:28 -0600, Dan Waters <dwaters at usinternet.com> wrote: > Jon, > > But, this is a laptop. I'm pretty sure I can only install one HD at a time. > Can Norton Ghost copy to discs? (maybe about 20 CDrs). Or copy to a > different PC so I can copy back? If your laptop is networked, I'm pretty sure that Ghost can image the small drive to a network and then restore the image to the larger hd from the network. I know Drive Image can, or at least could that last time I used it several years ago. So I can't see why Ghost wouldn't be able to do that. -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!" _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com