At one time, Norton Utilities used to be the best. But then they merged with MS, also Norton has taken the Utilities far more abuse on windows to greed than helping peoples systems, that people have to buy every year (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005......), Norton took advantage by going into making Anti-Virus software, because some other companies were doing so. Speedisk,  was the kewlest Utility Norton has made, then MS took the idea and made "Disk Defragmenter" which was made in DOS 5, DOS 6 and then Windows, later other companies started to follow on organzing files on the Hard Drive to speed up boots, programs file locations from/in Fat32, and now NTFS locations.  It was always the main utility everyone really recommended in the past. Norton really took advantage of that, then I started to see prices double on the products ($200.00 for Norton Utilites), and then later separating the utilites to make more of the buck, then others did same. Norton is a Hacker/Virus galore for hackers, and the virus's to slow down systems with Norton Utilities installed. I always now recommend other utilities, than Norton to everyone. I can say, most of the people here said it all. Norton was the thing in the past, now they are not. Be surprised if Norton changes their company name to keep in the bucks. I now use "System Mechanic 6", but their is a 7 now. I also use Mcafee AV. But I am now starting to be uncomfortable about MCafee. Hackers and Virus are now starting to reconize the company.