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Any equvalent of Norton Utilities?
On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 00:09:05 -0400, micky
wrote: What ever happened to Ed Norton, anyhow? Trixie divorced his ass and he went to Vegas with his brother Peter who was living large on the Symantec money. They ****ed it all away on hookers and blow. Now they live in a dumpster behind the MGM Grand and look for day labor opportunities in front of the Home Depot |
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Any equvalent of Norton Utilities?
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Sun, 15 Oct 2017 11:14:21
-0400, wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 00:09:05 -0400, micky wrote: What ever happened to Ed Norton, anyhow? Trixie divorced his ass and he went to Vegas with his brother Peter who was living large on the Symantec money. They ****ed it all away on hookers and blow. Now they live in a dumpster behind the MGM Grand and look for day labor opportunities in front of the Home Depot LOL. I was afraid no one would get it, but both of you did. I read that F.Lee Bailey was almost broke and working above a hair salon. Maybe the Nortons know him. |
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Any equvalent of Norton Utilities?
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Sun, 15 Oct 2017 02:10:43
-0400, Paul wrote: micky wrote: In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Sat, 7 Oct 2017 15:43:55 -0600, "Bill in Co" wrote: pyotr filipivich wrote: Was in a store the other day, just looking. Norton Securities was for sale, and that got me to recalling when I was using Norton Utilities for all manner of cool, neat and gee-whiz stuff. But Norton Utilities was not for sale - at least not there. Does anyone know if it still is, or if not what a reasonable alternative to it? tschus pyotr Well, I see Paul gave some suggestions for alternatives, plus I think Norton became more bloatware when it sold out to Symantec. I think you may be remembering the days long past (like a decade ago) when it really was a great utility. What ever happened to Ed Norton, anyhow? I think Jackie Gleason put him in a head lock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honeymooners Peter Norton was Ed's younger brother. Yes, you and gfretwell agree on that. Here, he doesn't have the geek glasses, like the picture on the software box. A guy with glasses knows a lot more about computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norton How come I didn't get rich after I was laid off? Paul |
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Any equvalent of Norton Utilities?
Steve Hayes on Sun, 15 Oct 2017 05:56:43 +0200
typed in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general the following: On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 13:02:40 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote: Was in a store the other day, just looking. Norton Securities was for sale, and that got me to recalling when I was using Norton Utilities for all manner of cool, neat and gee-whiz stuff. But Norton Utilities was not for sale - at least not there. Does anyone know if it still is, or if not what a reasonable alternative to it? Not really equivalent, but Glary Utilities does *some* of the things that Norton Utilities used to do. Another program that used to do similar stuff was PC Tools. I remember PC Tools. -- pyotr filipivich Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing? |
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Any equvalent of Norton Utilities?
On 2017-10-15 02:04, Paul wrote:
Paul wrote: B00ze wrote: On 2017-10-07 16:40, Paul wrote: I'd really like a disk editor, that can tell me what file I'm on top of when hex editing. But I've not seen such a thing for some time. I still use a hex editor, and with a utility like NFI.exe, I should be able to compute the start address if I ever needed to do something that dangerous. There aren't too many good reasons to be editing a file, without the help of the file system to present it to you. Come'on, for someone with your skills, typing "best hex disk editor" in Google shouldn't be too hard. We already know the best one is WinHex, but it's expensive. Free ones include HxD (very basic) and Active@ (looks good! see http://www.disk-editor.org/). There are others... Best Regards, HxD doesn't identify the file you're on top of, while opening a disk for raw access. No, it's extremely basic, but it's free... The pictures I can see in the Active@ one, I can't see an example there either, of a "walk and talk" interface. They show it editing $MFT, but did that happen by walking over $MFT, or was there a menu item to open it ? I just tried it. There are templates, so you can go to the MFT and the entries are color-coded etc, but I have not found how to jump from a MFT entry to the target file's first sector, and when I just read some random sector it does not show me which file that sector belongs to. It's still a lot better than HxD ;-) The Norton one, was one of the few where the filename you were on-top-of, showed at the top. And it was a kind of "educational" mode. HxD does everything I need, in the sense that it supports "search", which is frequently enough for my purposes (of locating whether something exists or not, on a disk drive). I've never tried my hand at editing $MFT, because it could be changing underneath me. Like take an OS like Win 10, where the OS never stops messing around, and at random times. Editing the $MFT on a "data" partition would potentially be safer, although I don't know why I'd want to do it. The simplest operation you could do on the $MFT, would be flipping the undelete byte. Maybe they dis-mount the volume while messing with the $MFT. You obviously want to play with the disk structure only once offline. Editing a file's content is fine but messing with the MFT is probably useless as Windows will have cached portions of it and may just re-write over your changes. I dug out the Norton software I had, and installed it in a VM, and DiskEdit in there is an MSDOS level utility. And once I had the name of it, I could go looking for pictures of what it looked like. That wasn't the one. Whatever editor I was using, had a larger X*Y matrix on the screen. Much larger than DiskEdit. Which suggests it came after the year 2000 or so. I tried searching on pictures of disk editors, and *nothing* matches the picture I have in mind. So now I don't know what that utility was. I got a couple DOS editors, I even have one that can disassemble a sector, but I don't recall which, if any, displayed the filename. I'd have to boot in DOS and try them out, not too keen on that lol. I see FED, DISKEDIT and HEXIT in my editors folder. I tried opening FED from XP and all I got was a black shell. HEXIT wants a filename, so that's probably not working raw on disk. DISKEDIT can't read the disk while inside Windows and refuses to let me click HELP to see what it's about. Oh well lol... Regards, -- ! _\|/_ Sylvain / ! (o o) Memberavid-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society oO-( )-Oo Cap'n Crunch found dead - Cerial killer suspected. |
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