Re: But, but Whose?

["Sherry" sherry@xxxxxxxx]

i agree about the freeware... sloggy stuff that. norton came on the
puter... and i don't have the energy to reinstall win 95:)

> Nathan Sivin reports on a mysterious problem that appears to result from
> the interaction of three programs, one of which is Xy and another of which
> is Norton Utilities. [Look, Ma, no quoting!] As usual (always?), I can't
> be of any help, other than via a comment that will no doubt appear
> unhelpful at best. And the comment is:
>
> Why bother with Norton Utilities?
>
> Back in the days when Microsoft provided very little in its operating
> systems (except, it must be granted, leanness and understandability), we
> all needed sets of utilities. Mostly because of its back-up module, partly
> because I already had 4DOS, my own favorite was PC Tools (whose acquisition
> [and subsequent destruction] by Symantec seemed to cause no great
> eyebrow-lifting by the US antimonopoly commissars). But Symantec's NU was
> pretty good too.
>
> Of course, only certain parts of those old utility sets work with Win95.
> When I got Win95 I was all set to buy one. But the sole choice was
> Symantec, and its high price (and lack of a good back-up program) irritated
> me, so I decided to lay off for a time.
>
> Time passed and I never bought NU (or anything much like it) and have never
> wished I'd done so. I did buy Norton Navigator, never got to like it, and
> could find no way to get rid of all of it short of reinstalling Win95
> (which I did). Wary of any company selling such strongly adhesive
> software, I was also careful not to install any of the occasional freeware
> daemons that Symantec altruistically releases from time to time.
> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
> Peter Evans 

Sherry@xxxxxxxx
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