Norton Utilities, the once popular package of tune-up and troubleshooting programs for PCs, is back.
The product became part of Norton SystemWorks in 2003
Conceived by Peter Norton in the early 1980s, Norton Utilities ran up big sales during the first two decades of the personal computer.
In 2003, after being sold to Symantec, the product was taken off the market and folded into Norton SystemWorks.
Last week, Symantec did an about-face and reintroduced the package, saying people are placing more performance demands on their PCs and installing more applications. Hence the need for tools to improve that performance.
Norton Utilities will sell for $49.99 on the Web and at retail. It includes a disk cleaner, disk defragmenter, registry cleaner, registry defragmenter, a dashboard to monitor performance and benchmarking tools.
It runs on Windows.
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