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Norton Utilities for Windows 95/98 3.0 LiveUpdate 6 This patch file is for NU 95 3.0 and patches it to the same version as LiveUpdate 6; i.e. 3.0.7. Simply run the RUNME.EXE file and it will find your version of NU 95 and apply the patch automatically. If you already have the latest version or do not have version 3.0 of Norton Utilities, it will not do anything. You MUST reboot the system after applying the patch. =============================================================================== Changes for updates to Norton Utilities for Windows 9x, V3.07 June 15 1998 =============================================================================== The following is a list of the Norton Utilities files that changed in LiveUpdate #6, and a description of the changes: Norton Rescue: Changed files: rescue32.exe, nursc.dll, ziprecvr.exe Now supports Windows 98 and Windows 95 OSR 2.5. Can create Zip rescue set on systems where the zip drive is drive A:. PCMCIA SCSI cards are no longer supported. This can be overriden with the /PCMCIA switch. Norton SpeedStart: Changed files: spdstart.vxd, spdstart.exe Norton SpeedStart now disables itself on Windows 98. Norton Speed Disk now directly supports application launch acceleration provided by Windows 98. Norton Speed Disk: Changed files: sd32eng.dll Supports optimizing your drives using application launch acceleration provided by Windows 98. Norton CrashGuard: Changed files: Norton Crashguard directory Norton CrashGuard 3.03 caused Explorer to open folders called Norton or Programs during startup on certain systems. This no longer occurs. Optimization Wizard: Changed file: optwiz.exe Fixes a rare problem where users may experience Registry corruption on Windows 98 systems upgraded from Windows 95. No longer displays option to use Norton SpeedStart on Windows 98 systems. Refer to Norton SpeedStart section above. Norton WinDoctor: Changed files: many Improved versions of scanner components. SymEvent: Changed file: sevinst.exe Latest version of symevent files. You can always get the latest Symevent files from our FTP site at ftp://ftp1.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/symevnt/ Update #6 also includes the following changes from Update #5 (v3.06): Norton Disk Doctor: Changed files: ndd.exe, nddeng.dll, ndd32.exe Updated Disk Doctor to fully perform partition table diagnosis and repair of drives requiring extended int13 support (drives over 8.4gb). Fixed a problem where NDD could take a very long time to initialize on some drive configurations. Norton Disk Doctor on startup will no longer halt if the only error found is the free cluster count, but will silently correct this very minor error. Norton Rescue: Changed files: iomega.vxd, nursc.dll, rescue32.exe, ziprecvr.exe Eliminated files: nureged.exe, runreged.exe New files: nzrbuild.vxd Added ability to select or deselect specific files to be copied to a ZipRescue set. Added additional instructions for users who have adapters which are not natively supported by Norton ZipRescue. Added support to both Basic Rescue and ZipRescue for partition table diagnosis and repair of drives requiring extended int13 support (over 8.4gb). Added support to ZipRescue for Windows 95 OSR 2.5 (Version 950 C), which comes preinstalled on many new computers purchased in 1998. Added support for Windows accessibility options. Added support for some bus mastering IDE controllers. Added support for Internet Explorer 4.0 "view as web page" feature. Improved the registry handling, eliminating the use of Regedit and allowing ZipRescue to function with physically corrupt registries. ZipRescue Recovery Wizard now supports system area virus repair. ZipRescue now supports Zip drives configured as the system A: drive, making them bootable without a floppy. Rescue now creates a rescue.log file in the Windows temporary directory which contains diagnostic information. Running "rescue32 /log" will display this diagnostic log. Norton Registry Editor:Changed files: nregedit.exe Fixed a problem that might cause search/replace to fail when replacing a key name. Norton Speed Disk: Changed file: sd32eng.dll Speed Disk will now run on some machines on which it formerly reported that the drive was misconfigured. Fixed a problem on Win98 machines that could cause an error allocating cluster error message on some drives with unmovable files. Fixed a crash that could occur when working with bad clusters and unmovable files. System Doctor: Changed files: sensor32.dll, noem32.dll New files: navsdr32.dll, navdef32.dll, navsdk.vxd Norton System Doctor will now use the Norton Antivirus v4.0 virus definitions by default. If Norton Antivirus v2.0 is installed, Norton System Doctor will use the v2.0 definitions. This will enable Norton System Doctor to maintain the definitions for both Norton Utilities and Norton Antivirus should both products be installed. Fixed a problem where Network Associates' VirusScan 3.1, Norton System Doctor, and Norton Speed Disk, all running concurrently, could cause a system freeze. Sometimes System Doctor could report invalid dates with certain antivirus definition files dated past the 12th day of the month. This has been repaired. Fixed a freeze that could occur if you cancelled out of a NAV SE repair. The Rescue sensor now updates immediately after Rescue completes. The sensor also checks to see if Rescue has been run since the last time System Doctor was run and updates its state accordingly. LiveUpdate: Changed files: nuliveup.dll nulive.dll Now supports updating Norton Antivirus v4.0 virus definitions as well as Norton Antivirus v2.0 virus definitions. System Information: Changed files: si32.exe Updated Norton System Information to handle hard drives that require extended int13 support (larger than 8.4gb). Norton WinDoctor: Changed files: many Fixed a problem where WinDoctor registry scans could freeze when searching for deleted files. On some machines, including those with corrupt registries or with misinstalled DCOM 95 windows components, WinDoctor would not show any scans. WinDoctor will automatically try to resolve the problem instead of silently failing. Norton Protection: Changed file: nprotect.exe, nprotect.vxd Modified Norton Protection to handle a greater number of file exclusion rules. If Norton Protection fails to load, it displays a more helpful troubleshooting error message. SymEvent: Changed file: sevinst.exe Fixed a problem where you could get SYMEVNT mismatch errors causing Norton Protection not to load. The latest Symevent files can always be retrieved from our FTP site at ftp://ftp1.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/symevnt/ Norton CrashGuard: Changed: Norton Crashguard directory Norton CrashGuard 3.02 has better support for Far Eastern languages, and fixes a lock up that occurs intermittently upon system startup. Update #5 also includes the following changes from Update #4 (v3.05): Optimization Wizard: Changed file: optwiz.exe Symantec identified a problem users commonly encountered using Norton Optimization Wizard: Many users have physical corruption in their system registries and Norton Optimization Wizard can't optimize physically corrupt registries. Due to the widespread nature of this problem, we added a new feature to Norton Optimization Wizard: Corrupt Registry Repair. If Norton Optimization Wizard discovers that you have a corrupt registry, it provides the user with a notice to that effect, and asks the user if the registry should be repaired or not. If the user does not elect to have their registry repaired, Norton Optimization Wizard will be unable to optimize the registry and will abort. If the user does repair the registry, all invalid (unreadable through the Windows API) keys will be pruned from the registry. Should this cause any problems, the original (corrupt) registry can be restored via the RESTREG.BAT file, as explained in the README.TXT file. Repaired a problem where Optimization Wizard could crash with a stack overflow message or a GPF in NRW16.EXE while rebooting after users upgraded to LiveUpdate #3. Added a check to Optimization Wizard to prompt a user to expand their fixed swap file size if it's smaller than our recommendation. Fixed a software conflict with First Aid 98's Windows Guardian during registry optimization. Optimization Wizard will disable (until reboot) the Windows Guardian so that it does not track the optimization being done to the registry (and thereby prevent Windows Guardian from crashing). More details may be found in the README.TXT file. Norton Speed Disk: Changed file: sd32eng.dll Fixed a problem where Speed Disk would restart when running continuously on large FAT32 partitions. Changed Speed Disk to place files in the root directory with the system attribute immediately after the "files to place first" (from the Speed Disk custom configuration). For users of Windows 98, Speed Disk will now pause at the beginning of an optimization and display "Converting Application Start Data" on the status line. Under Windows 98, some files may actually be purposefully fragmented in order to be fully optimized for load speed. Speed Disk works in conjunction with the operating system to determine how they should be fragmented, and optimizes them for peak performance. Added SAVE2DSK.BIN to the list of Speed Disk unmovable files. Norton Protection: Changed file: nprotect.exe, ushellex.dll Fixed a problem where the Norton Protected Recycle Bin shield icon may not properly reflect the state of the recycle bin at all times. Norton Protection will no longer update the Norton Protected Recycle Bin shield icon upon shutdown. This allows systems to shut down more quickly. Norton SpeedStart: Changed file: spdstart.vxd Fixed a problem that could cause crashes in various applications upon startup. Norton SpeedStart disposes of old profiles after 30 days. This automatic cleanup is used to prevent a huge number of profiles from being stored in the NSS directory. Some applications which scan files (such as some non-Norton antivirus products or file search programs), will update the last accessed date on such files. This causes Norton SpeedStart to never erase them. Now, Norton SpeedStart will delete all profiles 30 days after they have been created and the programs you still use will be reprofiled every 30 days. Norton Disk Doctor: Changed file: nddeng.dll Worked around a conflict with an old version of the Promise Technologies Ultra 33 UDMA controller that could cause Norton Disk Doctor to mis-diagnose a drive problem. This will no longer cause a problem with Disk Doctor, but users of these controllers should ensure that they have version 1.33 (or newer) of the driver. This driver update is available on the Promise web site or from LiveUpdate Pro. System Doctor: Changed files: sysdoc32.exe, sensor32.dll If Norton System Doctor could not find anti-virus definitions, it could show a green sensor. This will no longer occur. Norton System Doctor should also no longer display an Antivirus definition date of 1690. Norton CrashGuard: Changed: Norton Crashguard directory This version of Norton CrashGuard solves a problem where systems would sometimes hang on system startup. There is also an updated README.TXT in the Norton CrashGuard directory. Update #4 also contains the following changes from Update #3 (v3.04): Optimization Wizard: Changed file: optwiz.exe New file: badkey.ow, restreg.bat Norton Optimization Wizard has been updated to do registry optimization much more quickly and more safely than previous versions. It has improved error detection, and will abort the process if it is unable to safely optimize the registry. If Optimization Wizard is unable to successfully optimize the registry, a BADKEY.OW file is created in the Windows directory that contains a list of defective registry keys. The registry will not be harmed. Optimization Wizard also creates a RESTREG.BAT file in the Windows directory that can restore the registry to its pre-optimized state. Optimization Wizard now cleans up its temporary files after it completes. Zip Rescue: Changed files: iomega.vxd, nursc.dll, rescue32.exe, ziprecvr.exe, runreged.exe ZipRescue has been updated to function with corrupt registries (Windows can use such registries, but they can cause problems with recovery. LiveUpdate #3 solves this). ZipRescue now excludes more files than in previous versions (temporary internet files, wininit.bak, etc). These excluded files are not necessary for proper ZipRescue functionality. ZipRescue now includes VxD's included in system.ini which are needed for some machines. Fixed a problem where SETVER.EXE does not exist on some OEM configurations. Added HIMEM.SYS to Basic Rescue CONFIG.SYS. Fixed a problem in handling startup files in the Common group for Internet Explorer 4.x users. System Doctor: Changed files: sysdoc32.exe, sensor32.dll, alarm.dll Fixed a problem where the Rescue sensor remains red after a Rescue update. Fixed a problem where the Drive Optimization sensor will report fragmentation levels on Windows 98 Beta incorrectly. Norton Disk Doctor: Changed file: NDD.EXE Automated the Free Cluster Count fix on startup. Fixed a problem where NDD could hang doing a surface test on a FAT12 partition (a partition under 20 megabytes, floppy, etc). Norton Speed Disk: Changed file: <registry> Added NTLDR (Windows NT boot loader) as an unmovable file. Norton Protection: Changed file: Fixed a problem where the Norton Protected Recycle Bin icon could vanish. System Information: Changed file: SYSINFO.VXD Fixed a problem where System Information could erase a system's CMOS configuration during the processor identification sequence on older processors which didn't support a certain instruction. Other: Changed files: Added the incremental version number to the Norton Utilities About box. Update #3 also contains the following changes from Update #2 (v3.02): Optimization Wizard: Changed file: optwiz.exe New file: regpatch.exe, badkey.ow, restreg.bat Norton Optimization Wizard has been enhanced to provide better detection of errors with the optimization process and, if an error occurs, better recovery from a corrupt registry. If Optimization Wizard is unable to successfully optimize the registry, a BADKEY.OW file is created in the Windows directory that contains a list of defective registry keys. The registry will not be harmed. Optimization Wizard also creates a RESTREG.BAT file in the Windows directory that will restore the registry to its pre-optimized state. Optimization Wizard now correctly optimizes registries that have keys containing carriage returns and line feeds. Norton SpeedStart: Changed file: spdstart.vxd Norton SpeedStart has been updated to solve a deadlock problem with VirusScan. All Utilities: Changed file: nusplash.dll Fixed a compatibility problem with some Diamond Multimedia video cards and current (as of this writing) video drivers, which caused Norton Utilities to GPF upon startup. The workaround to this was to disable the splash screens, but with this revision, the splash screens now work with Diamond cards. Zip Rescue: Changed file: iomega.vxd Fixed a problem where new media in a Zip drive was not being properly detected. Readme.txt: Changed: readme.txt Added a section containing information on the Norton Optimization Wizard. Also added to the general information / compatibility issues section regarding America Online, QEMM97/MagnaRAM, and CleanSweep 3.0. Update #2 also contains the following changes from Update #1 (v3.01): System Doctor: Changed file: sysdoc32.exe, sensor32.dll, alarm.dll Fixed the additional alarm problem. Now, if additional alarm conditions are triggered while an alarm is displayed, the additional alarms will now display after the first alarm is dismissed. Speed Disk: Changed files: sd32.exe, sd32eng.dll Fixed a rare problem where Speed Disk could fail on Drivespace2 or Drivespace3 volumes if the system was under heavy I/O stress. Zip Rescue: Changed files: iomega.vxd, nursc.dll, rescue32.exe, ziprecvr.exe, runreged.exe Fixed a memory allocation error when dealing with massive registries. Fixed a problem where Zip Rescue would format a 5.25" floppy disk as if it were a 3.5" disk. Since Zip Rescue does not support 5.25" floppy disks, an error message now displays. To save space on the Zip Rescue disk, the list of files required to be saved to the disk has been trimmed. Fixed the problem that Zip disks could be made unformattable and unusable on certain Zip drives. The fix is accomplished by using the latest IoMega drivers, (iomega.vxd), but this update installs them for you.