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Norton Utilities returns to the market

10 February 2009 10:48 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Aynur Veliyeva â€“ APA-Economics. Symantec Corp., maker of Norton security software, has announced the availability of Norton Utilities, reintroducing a classic and fan-favorite Norton product with new and essential tools to optimize PC performance. The unique tools in todayâ€™s Norton Utilities help reclaim system memory, accelerate startup time, free up disk space and boost overall system performance.
Norton Utilities faded into the background, the need for PC help was filled by everything from trialware, such as System Mechanic from iolo Technologies, to Web-based maintenance like FinallyFast.com, which features amusing commercials of Apple Macintosh computers getting the Windows blue screen of death.
Also, Symantec acquired another tools and maintenance vendor, PC Tools, last August, which set the stage for NUs comeback.
"Weâ€™ve been looking at the market recently and what users are doing, and one of the themes that kept coming up was people wanted to run a little faster, but they are running more apps and noticed their systems are bogging down," Robert Reynolds, senior product manager for Norton SystemWorks and Norton Utilities told InternetNews.com.
The new NU includes a startup manager services manager, which focuses on background services the user would not need. Windows Vista is particularly known for loading a lot of memory and CPU-consuming services that the average home user does not need, so it offers help in choosing which to disable.
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