Norton Utilities may be the best-selling utilities package, but its diagnostic, recovery, and maintenance tools can be a little presumptuous. For instance, when you install Norton Utilities 3.0, your trusty Recycle Bin changes into the "Norton Protected Recycle Bin," and you lose the ability to view deleted files by double-clicking the bin icon; instead, the utility forces you to step through the Norton UnErase Wizard. To return your Recycle Bin to its normal behaviour, right-click the Norton Protected Recycle Bin icon and choose Properties. Click the Desktop Item tab. In the Double-clicking item opens section, select Standard Recycle Bin.

You can also customise the bin while you're at it. Use the Title box to type in a new name for the Recycle Bin. And if you want, make the desktop icon show whether the bin contains any files protected by the Norton Protection feature, which stores deleted files that would otherwise not appear in the Recycle Bin (these include files deleted from within an application or from a DOS box). Just check Show Norton Protection status. If this option is unavailable, you'll need to click the Norton Protection tab, check Enable Protection, click Apply, and then return to the Desktop Item tab.