Norton SystemWorks 2008 Basic Edition 11.0

Customer Rating:
Summary: Too restrictive for use when you really need it
Comment: I purchased this item because I needed to wipe a disk for resale. It turns out that it cannot wipe the disk of the computer it boots from since it needs to be "installed" first. So you have to remove the hard disk and put it in a different computer where the product is installed. Also, there is no way to make a bootable CD for use in repairing problems where the system cannot boot up. So, what use is Norton Disk Doctor then if it can only be used when the disk is working?

And of course with the product activation, you must know where you need the product installed before you need it because you have only one chance to install it and it can never be uninstalled and moved to a different computer.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Norton System Works Basic
Comment: Norton System Works BASIC dovetails perfectly with Spysweeper Antivirus and MS firewall. Computer is working better than ever, without conflicts.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Norton System Works 2008
Comment: I REALLY LIKE THE SYSTEM WORKS AND THIS WAS A GOOD VALUE FOR IT. I WOULD BUY THIS PRODUCT AGAIN NEXT YEAR. IT WAS DELIVERED FAST AND FREE SHIPPING IS GREAT.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazing Norton Product
Comment: This is one of my favourite Norton products. It is pretty obvious that programs these days are heavily loaded with features.
Which Antivirus product is not. We are heading into an era wherin tehse products are being built assuming you have good enough hardware too.
how can you expect 2008 features with 2002 computer hardware.
So, given a today's copmarison I am very happy with this product.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Another once great product ruined
Comment: I used Norton SystemWorks 2003 and was pleased with it. The product did a good job of diagnosing common problems like erroneous windows registry errors, cleaning temporary files, fixing basic hard disk errors and so on. Norton discontinued support for the product.

I had installed Norton Internet Security 2008 (NIS) basically for anti-virus and firewall protection. Great way to slow your fast computer to a crawl. NIS does not offer any kind of diagnostic features.

Man, let me tell you: Symantec must higher only programmers who promise to write 100 lines of code where one will do. It took a full half-hour for Norton SystemWorks Basic to load. That's about half the time it takes to do a full install of Windows XP Pro.

The first run of SystemWorks Basic took a half-hour on an 2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU - and hogged all the resources. Not very impressive. In fact, downright awful.

The functionality of the program has been badly impaired. Of some 30,000 temporary files (this computer had recently been rebuilt), Norton SystemWorks could not remove almost half of them - - - and helpfully suggested that I right-click each one and click an ignore checkbox. On nearly 15,000 files? Yeah. Sure. Any day now.

The product is definitely overpriced. Symantec seems to be chasing profits, not concentrating on product quality. Unfortunately, I don't know of any viable replacement. Iolo Sytem's Hard Disk Mechanic's current version has been widely panned.

I definitely do not recommend this product, but if you want this kind of capability in a commercial product, it may be your only choice.

Jerry