Norton Utilities 8

Norton Utilities 8 is a substantial collection of maintenance and diagnostic tools designed to keep DOS computers healthy, organized, and recoverable. Rather than being a single application, it is more like a toolbox for dealing with the numerous problems that could turn a perfectly innocent PC into a mysterious collection of error messages. Disk repair, file recovery, system information, optimization, and other utilities are gathered together in one package, reflecting a time when users were expected to take a much more active role in maintaining their computers. Modern operating systems quietly handle many of these tasks behind the scenes; DOS generally preferred to let you know when something had gone wrong. Norton Utilities became famous precisely because it could sometimes rescue users from those situations. Version 8 represents a mature stage of the collection, offering an impressive range of tools for anyone brave enough to poke around inside the machine.