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Answer» I mean REALLY OLD, like the DOS versions.Quote my memory doesn't serve me well enough to remember what exactly it was Norton did that... Quote from: php111 on May 25, 2008, 03:44:14 PM One other thing, my Uncle when he has time he is going to email me the old DOS version of Norton Utilities v3.5. Norton Utilities were awesome! In fact Bill Gates got a lot of his best stuff from Pete (Peter Norton). NDD(Norton Disk Doctor) was called Scandisk when released with DOS. Pete's SpeedDisk was called Defrag in DOS. Peter Norton always released a new version of his utilities that had a few more features than on the version he sold to Bill. For example in Speedisk you could specify particular files that you wanted to move to the beginning of the disk (while you were defragging), for faster execution. (Disks were slower back than and this could actually make a difference. Today, what's a few nanoseconds?) That said, you should be WARNED! DO NOT use old utilities, no matter how well they worked back in the day!!! I recently warned another user of the dangers in the following link: Batch file help The biggest problem is this: DOS & Windows prior to Windows95 only worked with short filenames (8.3) If you run any of the disk management utilities mentioned above or a few others, you will be very SORRY . This is the voice of experience. I ran NDD & Speedisk on a Windows 95 system.(One time was all it took for me.) The long filenames were gone and the system was crippled & barely booted up at all. There is little or nothing of any real value that you can LEARN from DOS 6.22 that you can't learn by using the the "DOS" found in Windows XP or Vista. But, if you really want to use the "real" DOS (DOS6.22) Please do so on a separate COMPUTER, or at least a separate partition. And be very careful even then. You have been warned! Now have some fun learning! Quote Norton did that...LOLQuote from: php111 on May 25, 2008, 06:20:43 PM Willy, As that was commercial software, I doubt that it can be downloaded legitimately. But - Do you know what was included in it? In other words, do you have something specific that you need, because often there is another solution. If there was some specific job you needed to do, describe it here and perhaps someone will know a trick or tip or other software, to share with you. While I've been away from the forum overnight, I see many other responses here, along the same line. Lastly, just for the heck of it, I tried Google. Found this: http://www.softwarecheaper.com/product1005.html Says Norton Utils v.3.5 is $5.00, and I see a SMALL note about free delivery. If you really want it, five bucks sounds pretty cheap. I know nothing about this vendor, and haven't looked for any fine print on their site - I'll leave that for you. |
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