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SYMANTEC CORPRATION - PETER NORTON GROUP 08/01/99
Release Notes for Norton Utilities 2000 4.5 for Windows 95/98
-------------------------------------------------------------
Thank you for purchasing Norton Utilities 2000 4.5 for
Windows 95/98. This version of Norton Utilities 2000 is
designed for Windows 95 and Windows 98. In this document
we will refer to them collectively as Windows 9x. This
version is not compatible with Windows NT, Windows 2000,
Windows 3.x, OS/2, or Windows emulators such as
SoftWindows. Please review this document before you
install Norton Utilities 2000 or call technical support,
as it contains information not contained in the User's
Guide and the online help.
Table of Contents
1. Installation with Setup Wizard and Uninstall
2. General Information
3. Bootable Norton Utilities CD
4. Disk Editor (DISKEDIT.EXE)
5. Image
6. Norton Diagnostics
7. Norton Disk Doctor
8. Norton File Compare
9. Norton Optimization Wizard
10. Norton Protected Recycle Bin and Norton Protection
11. Norton Registry Tracker
12. Norton Speed Start
13. Norton System Doctor
14. Norton Web Services
15. Norton WinDoctor
16. Norton Wipe Info
17. Rescue Disk
18. Run From CD
19. Speed Disk
20. System Information
21. UnErase Wizard
22. UnFormat (UNFORMAT.EXE)
23. Year 2000 Compliance
1. Installation with Setup Wizard and Uninstall
-------------------------------------------------------
IMPORTANT: Do not use Norton Utilities versions 8.0 or
earlier for DOS or Windows on your Windows 9x system.
They are not compatible with the Windows 9x file system
and can cause disk problems. Uninstall these programs
from your system.
===========
We recommend that you uninstall any earlier versions of
Norton Utilities 2000 for Windows 9x from your system
prior to installing Norton Utilities 2000 4.5.
===========
Do not install Norton Utilities 2000 4.5 in a path longer
than 128 characters.
===========
Norton Utilities 200 4.5 cannot be installed into a
directory with Double Byte Characters.
===========
Do not install Norton Utilities 2000 into the \Windows
directory, or into the \Program Files\Symantec directory.
===========
At installation, backups are made of USER.DAT and
SYSTEM.DAT named USER.NU4 and SYSTEM.NU4. After you make
and test a full rescue disk set, you can safely delete
these backup files.
===========
In a custom install, choosing to install Norton System
Check will require that Norton Disk Doctor, Norton
WinDoctor, and Norton Optimization Wizard also be
installed. These will not be deselectable if Norton
System Check is selected.
===========
During a Custom Install, some components cannot be
deselected if other components are selected. LiveUpdate
is required by Norton System Doctor, Norton Web Services,
and Norton CrashGuard. The Basefiles are always required.
===========
If you install Norton System Doctor, we recommend you
install all other Norton Utilities 2000 programs to get
the full benefits of Norton System Doctor.
===========
With a dual boot Windows 9x / Windows NT machine, do not
install Norton Utilities 2000 for Windows 9x into the
same directory with Norton Utilities for Windows NT.
===========
If you uninstall Norton Utilities 2000 4.5, or an earlier
version of Norton Utilities, please reboot your system
after completing the uninstall and before re-installing
Norton Utilities 2000 4.5 or any other Symantec product.
===========
When uninstalling Norton Utilities, you are asked whether
or not you want to remove shared files. In most cases, it
is safe to select "Yes to All".
===========
If you install and then uninstall Norton Antivirus 2.0
while Norton Utilities 4.5 is installed, an error may
appear on startup: "Unable to dynamically load
NPROTECT.VXD". Re-install Norton Utilities 4.5 to solve
this problem, or call technical support for assistance.
This problem does not occur with Norton Antivirus 4.0.
===========
Users are strongly discouraged from using Uninstall
programs to remove Norton Utilities 2000 4.5. Use the
Windows Add/Remove Programs function found in the Control
Panel.
===========
Norton Utilities 2000 requires DCOM for Windows 9x, which
is installed by default. If this is removed, some
components of Norton Utilities will no longer function.
===========
Norton Utilities 2000 uses a Windows component called
DCOM which comes with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.
Uninstalling Internet Explorer 4.0 will remove DCOM, and
cause certain components of Norton Utilities 2000 to no
longer function correctly. You can run the DCOM setup
program from the \DCOM95 directory on your Norton
Utilities 4.5 CD-ROM to reinstall DCOM should it get
removed.
===========
On some western European versions of Windows 95 OSR2, you
may get a message about COMPOBJ.DLL being replaced by an
older version than the one that is currently on the
machine. The dialog box will inform you that the file
error will be corrected after restarting Windows. This
error results from installing Microsoft's DCOM for
Windows 9x.
===========
Norton Utilities 2000 standard installation adds
LiveAdvisor, LiveUpdate, Norton CrashGuard, and Norton
Web Services to the Add/Remove Programs list in the
Windows Control Panel. These items can be uninstalled
separately. LiveUpdate should only be uninstalled when no
other Symantec programs exist on the computer.
===========
During the Norton Utilities 2000 Standard Installation,
Norton CrashGuard 4.0, Norton Web Services, Rescue, Live
Update and Live Advisor are installed. These are special
components of Norton Utilities and require their own
installation process. If the installation of any these
components fail for some reason, you can run these
installations manually after the installation of Norton
Utilities 2000 is complete. To manually install any of
these components, insert the Norton Utilities 2000 CD
into your CD Rom Drive. The CD Start Panel should load
automatically. Select "Browse the CD" from the menu.
To reinstall Norton Web Services, type:
\NU\NWS\SETUP.EXE
To reinstall Norton CrashGuard, type:
\NU\NCG\SETUP.EXE
To reinstall Rescue Disk, type:
\NU\RESCUE\SETUP.EXE
To reinstall Live Advisor, type:
\NU\LASETUP.EXE
To reinstall Live Update, type:
\NU\LUSETUP.EXE
===========
You may select NOT to install NSW (Norton Web Services)
on your system. However, the file NWS.URL will be
installed. No other pieces of NWS will be installed on
your system.
2. General Information
-------------------------------------------------------
If you have a Promise FastTRAK Ultra 33 controller,
Norton Disk Doctor and Norton SpeedDisk may detect
problems that do not exist and should not be fixed. This
is due to problems in the Promise driver or hardware. We
recommend that you do not use these applications on
drives attached to this controller at this time.
==========
LiveUpdate and Internet Firewalls: LiveUpdate downloads
updates automatically from an FTP site.If your Internet
connection is protected by a firewall, you may need to
modify its configuration to permit access to the Symantec
LiveUpdate FTP site.
Use the following data:
Host: update.symantec.com
Outbound data port: 21
Inbound data port: 20
Protocol: FTP
Consult your firewall's documentation or your network
administrator for implementation details.
===========
For safety reasons, several Norton Utilities 2000
programs momentarily lock the hard drive on which they
are running. If the drive is written to while it is
locked, the Norton Utilities 2000 program running will
restart. Restarts are most commonly noticed on the drive
that contains the Windows swap file. For example, if the
swap file changes while Norton Disk Doctor is diagnosing
the disk, Norton Disk Doctor restarts in order to verify
the newly written data on the disk.
==========
Norton Disk Doctor can be used under Windows 9x safe mode
to diagnose and recover drives. However, many other
Norton Utility programs do not run in safe mode, because
the operating system functions they require are not
available.
==========
If you have an emergency situation and you cannot start
Windows 9x normally, use your Norton Zip Rescue disk set
to boot into Windows safe mode, or refer to the Norton
Utilities 2000 User's Guide for more information.
===========
Hard disk drives with more than 1024 cylinders may, if
improperly partitioned, cause problems with Norton
Utilities. To avoid this problem, use an Enhanced IDE
(EIDE) or SCSI controller, upgrade your system BIOS, or
use a third-party disk partitioning software.
===========
Norton Utilities 2000 may have difficulties with other
utility software products that use the hard drive in a
nonstandard way. If you use a program like Partition
Magic to resize clusters, make sure that you recreate
your rescue disk set and re-run Image. If you use
Partition Magic to expand the size of the root directory,
Norton Disk Doctor may have difficulties with boot sector
repairs.
===========
If you have either the Buslogic BT-757s SCSI adapter for
EISA systems or the Buslogic BT-445s SCSI adapter, add
the following two lines to the SYSTEM.INI file in the
Windows directory:
[SYMEVENT]
DOSINT13HOOK=FALSE
===========
The Windows 9x Setup Wizard does not automatically
install Quick View. Quick View must be installed to view
a file's contents before deleting or recovering it in
either UnErase Wizard or Space Wizard.
To install Quick View:
1 Click Settings, then Control Panel from the Start menu.
2 Double-click Add/Remove Programs.
3 Click the Windows Setup tab.
4 Select Accessories from the list box, then click Details.
5 Select Quick View.
6 Click OK.
7 Click Apply.
You will be prompted to insert your Windows 9x disk.
===========
DOS-Based Programs that are included with Norton
Utilities 2000 for Windows 9x have the following minimum
memory requirements:
DOS-based Program Conventional Extended
Norton Disk Doctor (NDD.EXE) 360K 2 MB
Disk Editor (DISKEDIT.EXE) 360K 2 MB
UnErase (UNERASE.EXE) 360K 2 MB
UnFormat (UNFORMAT.EXE) 360K 2 MB
Rescue Restore (RESCUE.EXE) 512K NONE
Most of these programs run in protected mode. Therefore,
a memory manager such as HIMEM.SYS must be loaded.
On some machines, HIMEM.SYS may not detect your hardware
correctly, and may need a /M:1 command line switch to
function properly. Details on the operation of HIMEM.SYS
can be found in the MSDOSDRV.TXT file in your Windows 9x
directory. The proper syntax in your CONFIG.SYS would be:
device=c:\windows\himem.sys /m:1
===========
The Norton Utilities 2000 programs for DOS may display
"Run-time error R6009 - not enough space for environment"
if your PATH environment variable contains more than 128
characters.
===========
If you run Norton Utilities 2000 in DOS, you may wish to
add the path (usually c:\Program Files\Norton Utilities\)
to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The path used in AUTOEXEC.BAT
must use the short file name version of the path.
For example, open AUTOEXEC.BAT and add the line:
PATH=%path%;c:\progra~1\norton~1
(The actual short file name version of the path
may be different for your system than the one
above.)
===========
If you receive an error stating your hard drive is
misconfigured, and you are certain that the drive is
configured and functioning correctly, the hard disk
partitioning scheme may be incompatible with Norton Disk
Doctor and Speed Disk. See the appropriate section below
for more information.
===========
Prior to compressing a drive, disable Norton Protection
for that drive.
===========
If you install CleanSweep v3.0, it may install an older
version of MFC42.DLL (dated 10-1-96), which will cause
some problems with some of the Norton Utilities. This
problem does not exist with CleanSweep 3.01.If you have
this problem, you can copy MFC42.DLL from the Norton
Utilities 2000 CD (in the \NU\SYSTEM directory) to your
Windows system directory (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ if Windows
is installed in the \WINDOWS directory).
===========
Quarterdeck's MagnaRAM and QEMM97 products may cause "out
of memory" errors when attempting to run some of the
Norton Utilities. Please refer to the QEMM97/MagnaRAM
user guide to solve this problem by adjusting the cache
size.
===========
Users of Network Associates' VirusScan version 3.1 may
experience system lockups when creating Zip Rescue disks,
running Speed Disk, running Optimization Wizard, or
running Norton System Doctor.If you are experiencing
lockups, try disabling VirusScan to see if that solves
the problem.
3. Bootable Norton Utilities 2000 CD
-------------------------------------------------------
The Norton Utilities 2000 CD is bootable. This means on
systems with 2.88MB bootable CD support built into the
BIOS, the CD will boot to DOS for emergency recovery.
This standard is not supported by some systems may not
successfully boot from the Norton Utilities CD. Should
problems be encountered, please contact the hardware
manufacturer of your System, CD-ROM drive or CD-ROM Drive
Controller to insure they support the 2.88 standard.
===========
When booted, the CD may be displayed as the A: Drive
(floppy) This is normal when booting from the CD. (Note:
Your original A: Drive may also now be identified as your
B:. Your original B: drive will be inaccessible.)
===========
Because the bootable image on the CD is formatted as a
2.88MB floppy, the CD will appear as a 2.88MB floppy
diskette. If you encounter problems booting from the CD,
use the Emergency floppies provided with Norton
Utilities.
4. Disk Editor DOS-based program (DISKEDIT.EXE)
---------------------------------------------------------
When switching to 32-bit boot record view, the current
position of the cursor will change. To solve this
problem, select the range of the suspected boot record
and then view the selection as a boot record.
===========
Long file names that use high ASCII characters display as
dots in the directory view.
===========
If Windows reports that it cannot find HIMEM.SYS after
running Disk Editor, REM out all reference to HIMEM.SYS
from the CONFIG.SYS and CONFIG.WIN files. These
references are redundant since Windows always loads
HIMEM.SYS. Note: Do not REM out references to HIMEM.SYS
from any CONFIG.DOS file you may have.
5. Image
---------------------------------------------------------
Image may report "Volume Lock Failed." This indicates
that another disk program is currently accessing the disk
and Image could not lock the volume for its own process.
Click OK and try again when the other program stops
accessing the disk.
===========
Programs that rearrange data on the disk, such as Defrag,
can invalidate the saved Image information. Rerun Image
after running these types of programs.
===========
On a large, extremely fragmented FAT32 drive, Image may
report an "Out Of Memory" error. Run Speed Disk to
correct this.
6. Norton Diagnostics
---------------------------------------------------------
On some Compaq systems, you may not hear any sound from
the PC Speaker test. On these systems, Compaq redirects
the PC Speaker sound to the sound card.
===========
The CD-ROM test is designed to work with CD-ROM disks.
The test may not function correctly with an Audio CD in
the drive.
===========
The CD-ROM test is designed to verify the functionality
of the CD drive and not the integrity of the CD. The test
does read data off the disk, but it may not encounter any
damaged areas on the physical disk during the test.
===========
If you are using MouseKeys from Control Panel's
Accessibility Options, the keyboard and keypad tests will
not work properly.
===========
Norton Diagnostics does not support Windows Safe Mode.
When Windows is booted into Safe Mode, many of the
drivers Norton Diagnostics needs are not loaded.
7. Norton Disk Doctor Windows (NDD32.EXE) and DOS (NDD.EXE)
---------------------------------------------------------
Note: Do not run Norton Disk Doctor DOS on partitions
that were created with Linux FDISK or Disk Druid. If you
choose to fix errors on partitions that were created with
these utilities, it is critical that you make an undo
disk.
===========
Running Speed Disk frequently will improve the performance
of the scans that Norton Disk Doctor DOS conducts.
===========
Norton Disk Doctor for Windows restarts its diagnosis if
it detects a write to the disk being diagnosed.
Restarting ensures the integrity of data on the disk if
repairs are required. A restart may occur several times
during a single Norton Disk Doctor session
===========
Norton Disk Doctor will report that a hard drive is
misconfigured if the drive fails the drive configuration
check. Possible reasons for this failure include:
- The drive may have been partitioned on one PC and
moved to another PC that uses a different type of
BIOS, or has a different BIOS setup.
- The BIOS may have been set up incorrectly for the
drive in question when the drive was partitioned.
- The BIOS may require an update to correctly support
the hard drive.
- A program other than FDISK was used to create the
drive partitions.
Check with the BIOS manufacturer to be sure that the BIOS
supports the drive and that the BIOS is set up correctly
for that drive, and make sure you have the latest BIOS
version. If you are certain the drive is configured and
functioning correctly, you can start Norton Disk Doctor
with the /NOLBA command-line switch to prevent the drive
configuration check during one run of the program. NOTE:
Use this command-line switch ONLY if you are certain the
drive is configured correctly. For more information on
hard drive configuration, contact your drive's
manufacturer, or visit our website at
http://service.symantec.com
You can force Norton Disk Doctor to skip drive
configuration checking always by adding a DWORD registry
value named NOLBACHECK under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Symantec\Norton Utilities
2000. When this is set to 1, the drive configuration
check is skipped. NOTE: Do not set this value unless you
are certain that your hard drive is configured correctly.
For more information on hard drive configuration, contact
your drive's manufacturer, or visit our website at
http://service.symantec.com
===========
Do not run Norton Utilities 2000 programs during system
startup with other programs that require exclusive access
to a drive. For example, do not run Norton Disk Doctor
and ScanDisk on the same drive at startup. Doing so will
produce an error message.
===========
When restarting Windows after not shutting down properly,
you may receive the following message: "Error reading
configuration file SYMCFG.BIN." Press OK to allow Norton
Disk Doctor to check for and repair any disk errors that
may have occurred when the system was shut down. Once
Windows loads, open the START MENU and choose FIND to
locate SYMCFG.BIN on your hard drive. If you have more
than one hard drive, specify each drive in the FIND
program's LOCATE IN box by typing, for example,
C:\
for a single drive or
C:\;D:\
for multiple drives. When the file is located, right-click
the file and choose delete. When prompted for confirmation,
answer YES.
===========
Norton Disk Doctor Windows cannot repair damaged program
code in the boot record. Use Rescue Disk to restore this
data. Make sure you are running under Windows 9x MS-DOS
mode when repairing the boot record with Norton Disk
Doctor for DOS. If you use Norton Your Eyes Only with the
BootLock feature, and have boot record corruption, you
should use the NYEO emergency recovery disks to recover
the boot record instead of Norton Disk Doctor.
===========
When running Norton Disk Doctor for DOS on a computer
that contains one or more drives with invalid boot
records, you may receive the message "Invalid media type
reading drive x: (Abort, Retry, Fail?)." Select Fail, and
Norton Disk Doctor continues loading. Then select the
drive to diagnose the problem.
===========
Norton Disk Doctor may not be able to correctly repair
drives partitioned with Partition Magic as it may use
non-standard partitioning scheme. After using Partition
Magic to re-partition a drive, update your rescue disk
set. Use Rescue Disk to restore any partition table or
boot record errors on these drives.
===========
If you are using DriveSpace and it accesses a damaged
compressed volume file, you may get a blue screen error
message. Norton Disk Doctor does not generate this
message. Please contact Microsoft for assistance.
===========
Norton Disk Doctor for DOS generates a divide by 0 error
when attempting to run on a Windows NT-formatted FAT
partition with clusters larger than 32k. 32k clusters are
the largest valid clusters for use with Windows 9x.
===========
If Norton Disk Doctor reports an "invalid drive type" on
a system with an internal Zip drive, the Zip drive may be
configured as a fixed disk in your CMOS. Remove the Zip
drive from the CMOS, or contact the hardware
manufacturer's technical support. IoMega Zip and Jaz
drives have internal automatic bad sector correction, and
will reallocate bad sectors on the fly. Do not use Norton
Disk Doctor's surface scan function to check for bad
sectors, as this will thwart the internal bad sector
detection and cause problems with your Zip or Jaz
cartridge. IoMega recommends that you remove Zip and Jaz
cartridges from the drive when not in use to minimize
disk damage.
===========
Norton Disk Doctor should only be used to fix an invalid
partition if it is completely inaccessible from Windows
or DOS. Prior to any kind of partition repair operation,
you should update your Rescue Disk set.
8. Norton File Compare
---------------------------------------------------------
Binary files can occasionally be viewed in the text
viewer. These files appear illegible.
===========
The maximum size of a file is 32,767 lines.
9. Norton Optimization Wizard
---------------------------------------------------------
We recommend that you close all other programs before
running Norton Optimization Wizard. If a program attempts
to alter the system registry while Norton Optimization
Wizard is optimizing the registry, the settings it is
attempting to save will be lost. Also, do not empty the
Recycle Bin or change Windows settings during the
registry optimization.
===========
WinIce users may get an error "Invalid VXD dynamic link
call to device #3, service B" when optimizing the
registry with Norton Optimization Wizard. Do a full
system reboot to solve this problem. Another solution is
to rename NRW16.EXE (in the Norton Utilities directory)
to NRW16.NUL.
===========
Norton Optimization Wizard requires a file called
REGOPT.DLL to be present and registered on your system.
From the START Menu select the RUN command. In the Dialog
box enter the text:
REGSVR32 "C:\Program files\Norton Utilities\REGOPT.DLL"
===========
If there is corruption or nonstandard entries in your
system registry, Norton Optimization Wizard will fail to
optimize the registry, and will create a file called
BADKEY.OW in your Windows directory. This file can be
used to locate such entries.
For example: Microsoft Visual C++ v5.0 contains
one such corrupted key (subkeys of
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\
{B3943EF5-CEC5-11CF-AF20-00A0C9034837\). This key is
split into two keys, "Component" and "CLSID", but
should actually be "Component CLSID". This split key
causes Norton Optimization Wizard to fail unless the
key is renamed correctly (delete "Component" and
rename "CLSID" to Component CLSID).
===========
If you encounter any problems with your system registry,
or your system exhibits odd behavior after doing a
registry optimization with Norton Optimization Wizard,
shutdown your system into MS-DOS mode, switch to your
Windows directory, and run RESTREG.BAT. This restores
your system registry to its pre-optimized state.
10. Norton Protected Recycle Bin and Norton Protection
---------------------------------------------------------
IMPORTANT: Do not attempt to purge protected files while
utilities such as Speed Disk or Norton Disk Doctor are
running.
===========
To configure Norton Protection features, right-click the
Recycle Bin icon, then click Properties on the context
menu.
===========
Norton Protection uses available free space to protect
your files. Once the free space available reaches a
specified threshold, Norton Protection starts purging the
oldest protected files to free up just enough space to
protect the latest deletion. Norton Protection will begin
removing files if the total of all files sizes it is
protecting is greater than the amount of actual free space
on your drive. Norton Protected Recycle Bin protects
a maximum of 1500 files.
===========
If the "Show Norton Protection" status is checked and you
select the "Use Large Icons" check box on the Plus! tab
in Display Properties, then the Recycle Bin icon may
appear stretched or shrunken. To fix this, right-click on
the Recycled Bin icon, and select Properties. Select the
Desktop Item tab and uncheck Show Norton Protection
status. Click Apply. Then click Show Norton Protection
Status and click Apply again.
===========
When using NDOS, some file deletions of read-only files
may not be protected. Use 4DOS for Windows 9x instead.
===========
You cannot format drives currently protected by Norton
Protection. Disable Norton Protection before formatting a
drive.
===========
Restoring a registry snapshot from Norton Registry
Tracker may cause the Norton Protection shield status to
be displayed incorrectly. To correctly display the
status, disable Norton Protection and then re-enable it.
11. Norton Registry Tracker
---------------------------------------------------------
To track files with long names (greater than 12
characters), track the files individually instead of
tracking the folder that contains them.
===========
Changes to hidden or system files in a tracked folder
will not cause a snapshot. To track a hidden or system
file, make it unhidden or non-system.
===========
If a snapshot is taken of a file tracked by Norton
Registry Tracker while the file is being edited inside
another application, an error message may appear when you
try to save the file or when the application's auto-save
feature activates. The message says the file is in use.
===========
Files created and Deleted from a tracked folder in DOS
mode do not cause an automatic snapshot. Solution:
Manually force a snap shot.
===========
Do not use Registry Tracker to track any text or data
files contained in a folder that is protected by Norton
Your Eyes Only. Doing so may cause Registry Tracker to
take repeated unchanging snapshots. This is completely
benign, but may cause extremely high CPU usage.
12. Norton SpeedStart
---------------------------------------------------------
Because functionality similar to Norton SpeedStart is
built in to Windows 98, Norton SpeedStart is disabled in
Windows 98.
===========
The very first time an application is loaded after Norton
SpeedStart is installed, it may load more slowly than
usual because Norton SpeedStart is profiling the loading
process.
===========
Immediately after installing Norton Utilities 2000 and
rebooting, Norton SpeedStart profiles many applications
for the first time, so the first boot may be noticeably
slower than normal. Norton SpeedStart uses this
information to speed up application startup.
13. Norton System Doctor
---------------------------------------------------------
The Disk Health sensor is set to Monitor All Local Hard
Drives by default. The Disk Doctor, Disk Doctor (Surface
Test), and Image sensors can be set to Monitor All Local
Hard Drives from the Drive tab of the sensor Properties.
If a sensor is set to Monitor All Local Hard Drives,
there should be no more than one of that sensor type in
the Norton System Doctor sensor panel.
===========
The CrashGuard+, Rescue Disk, and WinDoctor sensors are
system wide, and not drive specific. Only one of each
should be active at any time.
===========
Norton System Doctor may report 100% CPU usage when
Microsoft's System Monitor (SYSMON) program is running,
because System Monitor uses all idle processor time while
displaying its processor usage gauge.
===========
Norton System Doctor may report 100% CPU usage during a
pcANYWHERE Session due to the high activity generated by
constant video updates and modem transmissions.
===========
Using High Contrast (White on Black) Accessibility
Options may cause Norton System Doctor's text to be
invisible. Adjust System Doctor's sensor colors, or turn
off the High Contrast features.
===========
Norton System Doctor's sensors have been configured for
optimum performance on most systems. Do not increase the
frequency of any sensor that can automatically run a
Norton Utilities 2000 program, such as Rescue, Image,
Disk Health, or Disk Optimization sensors. If you notice
a decrease in a drive's performance while Norton System
Doctor is monitoring it, decrease the frequency with
which Norton System Doctor monitors that drive.
===========
If you have Always on Top disabled in a docked Norton
System Doctor, you will not be able to move windows past
the area it occupies.
===========
In rare cases, if Norton System Doctor is docked
vertically, its width may be larger than necessary to
accommodate the current set of selected sensors. To fix
this problem, close and re-launch the program.
===========
Norton System Doctor configuration files saved with
versions prior to 3.0 of Norton Utilities 2000 for
Windows 9x are not compatible with version 4.5. Please
set up a new System Doctor configuration with version
4.5.
===========
If you believe your system has a SMART (Self-Monitoring
And Reporting Technology) hard drive, but the SMART
sensor in Norton System Doctor reports that no SMART
drives can be found on your system, please contact your
hardware manufacturer or try installing the Microsoft
SMART driver provided in the SMARTDRV folder on the
Norton Utilities 2000 CD. For more information, see the
SMARTDRV.TXT located there.
===========
Upgrading to Windows 98 will remove the SMARTVSD.VXD file
from the WINDOWS/SYSTEM/IOSUBSYS directory if there is
such a file there. If you had operating SMART sensors
prior to upgrading you will have to re-install using
SMARTDRV.EXE on the NU CD after the upgrade.
===========
If you connect to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) such
as CompuServe or America Online using dial-up networking,
do not enable the Internet sensors in Norton System
Doctor. ISPs that use dial-up networking do not
disconnect properly if they detect another application
using the Internet connection. This could cause your ISP
charges or your telephone bill to be higher than
expected.
===========
If Norton System Doctor alarm is postponed for a set
amount of time, the alarm may show again before that time
has elapsed. This happens if the condition that caused
the alarm is removed (which clears the set postpone) and
then the condition occurs again. For example, if the Disk
Space alarm is displayed, you can dismiss the alarm for a
specified time period. If you then clean up your drive
and re-fill it before the time period has elapsed, System
Doctor will display the alarm anyway because it perceives
it as new error condition.
===========
After running a Norton Utilities 2000 program to correct
a problem indicated by a Norton System Doctor sensor,
some stoplight sensor faces may not update immediately to
indicate the condition is resolved. To update the sensor
display after fixing the problem, right-click the sensor,
and choose Update from the context menu.
14. Norton Web Services
---------------------------------------------------------
If you get an "Unable to load monitoring VXD error 2"
message when you install an 'undoable' patch, you can fix
this problem by going to the \NWS directory on your
Norton Utilities 2000 CD-ROM and running SETUP.EXE. This
will reinstall the monitoring VXD (symmonit.vxd) and
solve the problem.
15. Norton WinDoctor
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Program dependency errors cannot always be repaired
because programs can lose required files and require re-
installation. Norton WinDoctor's "Repair" button is
grayed out if it cannot find a program dependency, but it
does not inform the user when "Repair All" is used.
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When a program is moved from one disk drive to another,
WinDoctor may not always be able to repair all broken
associations and get the program working again.
Generally, if you want to move a program to a different
drive, you should uninstall the product and re-install
it.
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WinDoctor can create a log file of all the changes made
to the system. Pressing CTRL-ALT-S will open a Save
dialog and allow you to save the log to a text file.
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Norton WinDoctor will not diagnose broken links to a hard
drive which has been removed from your computer. Turning
off the "removable drive" analysis agent enables Norton
WinDoctor to show these errors.
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Norton WinDoctor cannot be used to diagnose system
problems when Windows is started up in Safe Mode.
WinDoctor can only be used in Safe Mode to undo a
previously executed repair.
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If Norton WinDoctor starts up, but does not have any
tests in its list, you may have an installation error. To
repair the installation error, reinstall Norton
Utilities, or select Run from the Start Menu and browse
to the Norton Utilities 2000 folder and type:
SIREGIST.EXE "C:\Program Files\Norton Utilities\siregist.txt"
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If you do not have a temp directory, you will get the
message, "An error (4) occurred while examining your
registry." You can fix this error by opening a MS-DOS
prompt from Start Menu / Programs and typing MD TEMP.
16. Norton WipeInfo
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Norton WipeInfo will not wipe the slack space or remove
the directory entry for files located on Network and
Shared drives.
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Norton WipeInfo will erase directory entries only if it
can get a drive lock. If the drive is in use by another
utility or by the operating system the information in the
files and folders will be wiped, however, the directory
entries may remain. When using UnErase, it may appear
that the files or folders are recoverable. In fact, the
data has been wiped. Files previously deleted from a
folder before running WipeInfo on a folder will not be
wiped. To insure those files are wiped as well, use the
Wipe Free Space option in WipeInfo.
===========
If Wipe Free Space repeatedly restarts, open My Computer
and right click on the drive you want to wipe and select
Wipe Free Space. This will run WipeInfo without the user
interface. Network and Internet connections can cause
writes to the disk. Disconnect from your network and run
Wipe Free Space again.
17. Rescue Disk
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Creating a Norton Zip Rescue set now requires that you
restart your system using the Rescue Disk set, in order
to complete the set creation. Restarting your system
after an update is optional, but highly recommended.
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We recommend shutting down any applications running in
the background before creating a Rescue Disk set.
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Disk Manager partitions are not compatible with Rescue
Disk. Rescue Disk 4.5 does not support rescue disks
created by previous versions of Norton Utilities. Please
make and test a new Rescue Disk set.
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Rescue Disk requires 1.44MB 3.5" floppy diskettes for
Zip, Jaz and basic rescue sets.720K disks and 5.25"
diskettes are not supported. 2.88MB and 120MB LS-120
floppy drives may be used to create Rescue disks, but
only using 1.44MB floppy diskettes. Norton Zip Rescue
does not support creating Zip Rescue sets with USB Iomega
drives. Norton Zip Rescue does not detect USB drives.
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Rescue Disks cannot function properly or completely
operations in an emergency if you have not installed the
following Norton Utilities components:
For a Basic Rescue disk set:
- Norton Utilities 2000 DOS applications
For a Norton Zip Rescue disk set:
- Norton Disk Doctor
- Norton UnErase Wizard
If you chose to perform a Compact Installation, or a
Custom Installation that did not include these components
when you installed Norton Utilities, your rescue disk set
may not be complete.
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Norton Zip Rescue disks are closely tied to the operating
system. If you are not using a full release version of
Windows 95 (build 950 or an OSR release) or Windows 98,
Zip Rescue may not have full functionality.
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If booting the Zip Rescue Disk causes an error stating
"VFAT & DOS Volume on drive C: layouts mismatched", you
may have boot record corruption on the C: drive. In this
case, boot from the emergency recovery disk included with
Norton Utilities. NOTE: If you're using Norton Your Eyes
Only with the BootLock feature, use the NYEO emergency
recovery disks to recover the boot record instead of
Rescue Disk.
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If your system loads virtual device drivers (VxDs) from
SYSTEM.INI, and the C: drive does not come up, Zip Rescue
may show "Error reading cluster on drive C:" messages
while booting up. Choose [Abort] or [Fail], and Zip
Rescue should continue booting.
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Do not save rescue items to a compressed floppy disk.
When rescue items are stored on a compressed floppy, the
floppy cannot be used as a boot disk.
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You cannot save Rescue items to the root of any hard
disk. The Root typically contains important data that
could be overwritten.
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The CMOS checkbox in the DOS Rescue Recovery application
may sometimes falsely indicate that the CMOS should be
restored. This is because some motherboards change the
CMOS values when hard drive detection fails. If you see
that the CMOS should be restored, and you have already
allowed rescue to recover it, try continuing with the
recovery anyway.
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SCSI drive problems: If Rescue Disk's default set of SCSI
drive adapters does not include the one necessary for
your Zip drive, Rescue Disk displays an error and creates
a ZipAdapter*.reg file in the Norton Utilities 2000
folder. This file can be used to modify the registry as
necessary to enable your Zip drive. NOTE:If you have more
than one Zip drive attached to a non-supported SCSI
adapter, there may be more than one of these files on
your system. To fix this problem:
1 Get real-mode drivers from the manufacturer of each
unsupported SCSI adapter.
2 Copy your CONFIG.SYS file to CONFIG.BAK
3 Install the new drivers.
4 Open CONFIG.SYS and CONFIG.BAK in Norton File
Compare. Find the device line(s) that has been added
to CONFIG.SYS by the SCSI driver.
5 Select ZipAdapter*.reg in Windows Explorer, where *
is a number.
6 Right-click and choose Edit to open the file in a
text editor.
The file will look something like this:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Symantec\NortonRescue\4.5\
Setup\Zip Adapters\Your Adapter]
"L0"=" "
"F0"=" "
7 Add the line(s) from CONFIG.SYS into the *.reg file
LO key. If there are two drivers, you must add one
to each line.
For example:
"L0"="device=xxx.sys"
"L1"="device=yyy.sys"
8 Add the SCSI driver file name(s) referred to in the
LO key to the F0 key. There should be no path.
For example:
"FO"="xxx.sys"
"F1"="yyy.sys"
9 Save and close the file. It should look like this:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Symantec\Norton
Rescue\4.5\Setup\Zip Adapters\Your Adapter]
"L0"="DEVICEHIGH=SCSIDRV.SYS "
"F0"="SCSIDRV.SYS "
10 Copy the driver files into the \Norton Utilities
2000 folder.
In this example, you would copy xxx.sys and yyy.sys.
11 Double-click the file in Windows Explorer. The
file's information is merged into the registry
automatically.
12 Run Rescue Disk and the Zip/Jaz drives should
appear.
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If you fail to boot a Norton Zip Rescue disk into full
Windows and boot into Safe Mode instead, you can try
deleting the BOOTSAFE.TXT file from the Windows directory
on your Zip disk. This will allow Norton Zip Rescue to
try booting into full mode again. If the recovery fails
to boot into Normal Mode again, allow it to use Safe
Mode.
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Some customers have reported problems with Norton Zip
Rescue not functioning correctly when running in
conjunction with MagnaRAM or QEMM97. If Rescue crashes on
your system, try disabling the MagnaRAM option to see if
it clears up the problem.
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Zip drives attached to PCMCIA SCSI cards are not
supported by default. Limited support is available. To
enable this, start rescue32.exe with the /PCMCIA switch.
To do this, choose Start Menu / Run, select the Browse
button, browse to the Norton Utilities 2000 directory and
select RESCUE32.EXE,and add in "/PCMCIA" at the end.
The run command would look something like:
"c:\program files\norton utilities\rescue32.exe" /PCMCIA
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If you make significant changes to your system, such as
adding new hardware or changing your hard drive layout,
you should reset Zip Rescue and create a new Zip Rescue
set. To do this, run Rescue32 with the "/RESET" switch.
Choose Start Menu / Run, select the Browse button, browse
to the Norton Utilities 2000 directory and select
RESCUE32.EXE, and add in "/RESET" at the end.
The run command would look something like:
"c:\program files\norton utilities\rescue32.exe" /RESET
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If your Zip Rescue zip disk fills to capacity with files
that Windows requires to start, Norton System Doctor's
Rescue sensor will no longer turn red (since it is unable
to copy any new files to the disk). If this occurs, we
recommend that you reset Zip Rescue, via the procedure
outlined above.
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If you start your computer with a Zip Rescue set and
Windows displays error messages or blue screens reporting
that it cannot load certain VxDs or drivers, try to
continue. In many cases, these missing files are not
essential to the operation of Zip Rescue and Recovery
Wizard will still work to recover your system.
18. Run Applications from the NU2000 CD
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WinDoctor in Norton Utilities 4.5 is significantly
different from WinDoctor in Norton Utilities 4.0. Because
of this, if you use the Run from CD feature in Norton
Utilities 4.5 to run WinDoctor, the Run from CD feature
for WinDoctor from Norton Utilities 4.0 will stop
working. WinDoctor will still work fine if it is already
installed on the computer.
19. Speed Disk
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We strongly recommend that you shut down any CPU
intensive applications prior to running Speed Disk. The
SETI@Home Screen Saver and Background versions can assume
up to 97% of CPU activity. This can have adverse effects
on Speed Disk.
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On Drives with more than 6000 folders or folders with
more that 2000 large (>5mb) files, the initial scan will
run very slowly and may even appear to stop. you should
always allow the scan to complete.
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We strongly recommend that you disable any programs,
including Screen savers and power saver features, before
running Speed Disk on compressed drives. To check for
programs currently running, press Ctrl-Alt-Del ONCE. End
task on all items except for Explorer before running
Speed Disk.
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Speed Disk is designed to restart upon detection of
writes to the disk being optimized. Restarting ensures
the integrity of the data on the disk during
optimization. A restart may occur several times during a
single session.
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If Speed Disk reports that a hard drive is configured
incorrectly and the drive fails the configuration check,
the reasons for this failure include:
- The drive may have been partitioned on one PC and
moved to another PC that uses a different type of
BIOS, or has a different BIOS setup.
- The BIOS may have been set up incorrectly for the
drive in question when the drive was partitioned.
- The BIOS may require an update to correctly support
the hard drive.
- A program other than FDISK was used to format the
drive.
Check with the BIOS manufacturer to make sure that
the BIOS supports the drive and that the BIOS is set
up correctly for that drive, and make sure you have
the latest BIOS version.
If you are certain the drive is configured and
functioning correctly, you can start Speed Disk with the
/NOLBA command-line switch to prevent the drive
configuration check during one run of the program. NOTE:
Use this command-line switch ONLY if you are certain the
drive is configured correctly. For more information on
hard drive configuration, contact your drive's
manufacturer, or visit our website at
http://service.symantec.com
You can force Speed Disk to skip drive configuration
checking always by adding a DWORD registry value named
NOLBACHECK under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Symantec\Norton Utilities
When this is set to 1, the drive configuration check is
skipped. NOTE: Set this value ONLY if you are certain
that your hard drive is configured correctly. For more
information on hard drive configuration, contact your
drive's manufacturer, or visit our website at
http://service.symantec.com
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If Speed Disk needs to "Pack" your DoubleSpace or
DriveSpace 2 volume, it can take several hours. You can
speed up the process by creating as much free space as
possible.
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Speed Disk locks the compressed volume file (CVF) while
optimizing. Whenever a CVF is locked, the operating
system also locks the host drive (and any other CVF's on
the same host drive). Other disk programs may fail to run
on the host drive while the lock is in effect.
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If Speed Disk is launched while another Norton Utilities
2000 program has a drive locked, the Start button is
grayed out. We recommend that you wait until the other
program finishes before you launch Speed Disk.
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If you have unmovable files on your drive, and have Speed
Disk set to not move unmovable files, Speed Disk may be
unable to reach 100% defragmentation of the drive.
===========
Users of BestCrypt data encryption software from Jetico
Inc. should add a string entry in the registry to prevent
Speed Disk from moving BestCrypt system files. Launch
Norton Registry Editor and create a new key under
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Symantec\Speed Disk
Unmovable Files" called "*.jbc" with the value to
"*.jbc".
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Speed Disk can be programmed to automatically treat
certain files as being unmovable. A key can be added in
the registry to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Symantec\Speed Disk Unmovable
Files\Attributes DWORD value x=a, where x=drive letter
and a=binary attribute file. Developers of software
programs that rely on unmovable files for copy protection
should set this key. Contact your software manufacturer's
technical support for more assistance.
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If the value for Minimum Virtual Memory is set to zero,
the Swap File will not be moved to the front of drive
even if the Speed Disk options is set to move it. You can
also run Optimization Wizard and it will optimize your
Swap File settings.
20. System Information
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For network, CD, and compressed drives, the Disk Usage
Selection on the Drive tab is the total size of all
selected items as reported by the file system. This does
not include "slack" space (space wasted due to the
device's cluster size), so the total amount allocated is
often slightly more than the size displayed by System
Information.
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If the Windows 9x Device Manager shows an improperly
configured device (represented by a yellow "!" symbol),
System Information may not be able to display the correct
information for this device. Also note that disconnected
Plug & Play devices may be reported as configured by the
Windows 9x Device Manager. System Information will likely
display a disconnected Plug & Play device as configured
and active.
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System Information identifies a NexGen 586 computer as
having a 386-based processor. The NexGen processor uses a
386 instruction set.
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The Total Windows Memory value (located below the pie
chart in System Information's Memory tab) is calculated
by adding together the following numbers:
- Total physical memory
- Total current swap file size
- Total current free space on disk if Windows is
managing the swap file
- Total size of all currently loaded 32-bit
applications
The last item is included in the total calculation
because 32-bit applications under Windows 9x are
"swapped out" by flushing them from memory, and then
re-loaded from the original disk image when they
need to be "swapped in."
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System Information reports the bus type for "hybrid bus"
systems as follows:
VL/ISA = ISA
VL/EISA = EISA
PCI/ISA = PCI
PCI/EISA = PCI
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It may take System Information an extended amount of time
to gather information about network resources on large
networks.
===========
Printing a report while using some versions of Adobe Type
Manager ATM may cause the reversed text headings to print
incorrectly.
===========
The physical details for large drives over 8.4 gigabytes
may be reported incorrectly as 1023 cylinders, 63 sectors
per track, and heads of 255.
===========
On CD-ROM drives, the Physical Benchmark option for drive
benchmarking is disabled. To obtain similar results,
manually set the supplemental cache size to small in
Windows System Properties, and the access pattern to no
read ahead for that drive, then run the logical
benchmark.
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If you are using the Promise DC4030-VL2 EIDE disk
controller, and run the drive benchmark, the computer may
hang. See the troubleshooting section of the controller's
user manual for possible solutions, such as using only
one VESA card in the system.
===========
To learn more about benchmarking your computer, click
Help from the System Benchmark dialog. Please note the
following:
- CMOS settings can be used to enable/disable the L1
and/or L2 cache. If the CPU seems slower than it
should, verify the cache settings.
- Some variation in the benchmark results is normal.
System Information is designed to exclude common
outside factors, such as active applications, disk
swapping, most hardware interrupts, etc. However,
some low level system events cannot be completely
factored out. These events may cause minor
variations in benchmark results.
- Although your computer may be the same CPU and MHz
speed as other computers, it does not mean that it
will produce the same benchmark results. Various
other factors, such as the type and speed of the
system bus and memory, and the amount and
architecture of the memory cache, are accounted for
and affect the speed of your computer and the
results of the benchmark.
21. UnErase Wizard
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The Recently Deleted Files list shows the 25 most-
recently deleted files that are recoverable. If some of
the files have been overwritten, you will see fewer than
25 files in the list.
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If you delete a file on a floppy disk from an MS-DOS
prompt, by specifying filename letters after a wildcard
(e.g. DEL *ILENAME.TXT as opposed to DEL FILENAME.TXT or
DEL *.TXT), then the file will be listed as Unrecoverable
on the Recently Deleted Files page. Right-click in the
center of the file list and select "Show Unrecoverable
Files". To see if the file is actually recoverable, click
Next and use the subsequent Wizard pages to search the
floppy disk.
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If Quick View is not functioning, refer to the note under
"General Points of Interest" earlier in this document.
22. UnFormat DOS-based program (UNFORMAT.EXE)
---------------------------------------------------------
Long file names are not recoverable on floppy disks.
UnFormat does not work on compressed hard drives. On
FAT32 drives, depending on the configuration of the drive
and the amount of memory in your system, UnFormat may
produce a General Protection Fault due to lack of memory.
Due to the dynamics of FAT32 file systems, UnFormat may
not always detect when the cluster size has been changed.
23. Year 2000 Compliance
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Norton Utilities 2000 will accurately process prior to,
during and after the year 2000, all date-related data and
dates before, on and after January 1, 2000. Including but
not limited to accurately inputting, storing,
manipulating, comparing, calculating, updating,
recording, displaying, outputting, transferring and
sequencing such dates and data.
===========
Norton Utilities 2000 will accurately interface with
other software & hardware that uses standard date format
(4digits) for representation of the year.
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Norton Utilities 2000 will correctly process calendar
dates for leap year as defined by the Gregorian calendar
(note that year 2000 is a leap year).
===========
Norton Utilities 2000 will not incur any adverse
performance degradation due to changes added to support
Year 2000 compliance.
===========
Norton Utilities 2000 will provide capability for users
to readily identify and use the century in any date
fields without special processing.
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Norton Utilities 2000 will accommodate date data century
recognition (4 digit years) in all date-related data
fields and in all date-related functions.