pageoneresults - 2:34 pm on Aug 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

Many of you will probably gasp when I tell you that my home PC is a Dell PII 400 with 256MB of RAM. I purchased this beast at the beginning of 1998 at a cost of approximately $6,700.00.

I've had one major issue and that was in 1999 when a virus got through unexpectedly and changed all the dates on my system to 1972. Had to reinstall the OS which was the first and only time that ever happened to me.

In 1999 I purchased a program called Norton SystemWorks. This is a utility that goes beyond the standard Windows utilities for keeping your system in tip-top shape.

I run it at least once a week, it's kind of like a spring cleaning routine for your PC. If it weren't for this program, I think I would have been forced to get a new PC a couple of years ago.

About four months ago, I purchased Norton SystemWorks 2004. Installed it on my home system and went through the normal routines. Wow, after completion, it was almost like I was working on a new PC again. Apparently they made some major changes between the previous version I was using and this new version.

If you are running a PC, no matter what OS and no matter what configuration, Norton SystemWorks is a great maintenance tool to have on board. You'll definitely be pleasantly surprised at what this tool will do for keeping your system mean and lean.

P.S. After installing Norton SystemWorks and running the utilities on various PCs at our corporate offices, we were able to revive many that were destined for the trash bin. Years of abuse by employees who were not performing maintenance or defrag routines. We went through each machine and brought most of them back up to snuff just by using this utility.

P.S.S. Just yesterday, I was asked to clean a PC in our Mac Graphics Department. lol, first run of the utility found 497 Registry errors. And they were wondering why it was crashing regularly. ;)