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i dont know anyone that ever respected Norton, i think its time to have the 'talk' with dad.
by dustymcp 5y ago
i dont know anyone that ever respected Norton, i think its time to have the 'talk' with dad.
- anthonyskipper 5y agoBack in the MS-Dos days Norton was the only game in town for a bunch of things... Disk defragmenting, tools for working with file system, etc. It was a swiss army knife of good tools. But your point is generally correct in that for the last 20 years it has been atrociously bad.
- PopAlongKid 5y ago>Back in the MS-Dos days Norton was the only game in town for a bunch of things In the mid-1980s, PC Tools[0] was a worthy competitor to Norton. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Tools_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Tools_(software)
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- adamrezich 5y agoI should've said that my dad still manually runs dfrg.msc weekly and has a shortcut to it on his desktop lol
- BenjiWiebe 5y agodfrgui.exe Though I guess if it's a shortcut you don't see the actual filename too often. :)
- adamrezich 5y agoah, that's what I meant—I didn't realize it had been renamed!
- gigel82 5y agoNorton Commander was amazing; had it running on my family PCs since 1990 and up until it got upgraded to Windows 2000. Nothing good came from Norton since (that I know of).