From: hughesr@SANDNET.UCSD.EDU (Richard Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: re: WinFaxPro, FaxGrabber and Norton Desktop 2 $85 deal
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:38:49 GMT


          Stefan Olson asks if I am sure this deal includes NDW2.
          Yup, I am +positive+!

          I installed all three last night and FAXGrabber twice
          (because I didn't read the manual and thought it didn't
          work).  I saw another version of this deal in Egghead (no
          NDW) for a slightly greater price, so I might have
          obtained these three at an educational price, although there
          was nothing to this effect on the box and I wasn't asked for
          I.D.

          Several people have asked about NDW2.  Here's a brief
          review:

          Comes on 5*3.5" floppies (vs.3 before).  Takes about 9 meg
          disk space.  Installation on top of the old version was a
          snap.  The biggest plus of this upgrade is that it includes
          Norton Antivirus in addition to the Norton Backup for
          Windows.  If you don't have a good virus scan program yet,
          this would definately be a reason to go for the upgrade.
          Barring that, it may or may not be worth.  Doesn't include
          Norton Backup for DOS, which is crazy given that if Windows
          crashes for any reason it's impossible to use the backup
          program to restore the damaged file(s).

          There are several problems running NDW 2 with Windows 3.0.
          It would be absurd to upgrade to NDW 2 with Windows 3.0.
          With Windows 3.1, upgrading to NDW 2 offers a few
          enhancements in addition to the avtivirus program but I'm
          dubious as to whether these offer good enough reason to
          upgrade.

          For example, the drive button bars can contain more buttons.
          However, the drive windows don't tile *at all*.  Every time
          you open a second drive windows, you have to rearrange it.
          This should be automatic, like it was in version 1.  What's
          wrong with these folk?  A NEXT-like icon bar is offered but
          this only works well in horizontal display of icons.  Less
          than 3 icons horizontally leaves a space for a scroll bar on
          the right hand side, whether needed or not.  I don't much
          care for this feature.

          A souped up text editor, alternative to NotePad, is
          included.  This overcomes the size limitation of NotePad, so
          maybe there's no need to use WinEdit (which still doesn't
          wrap text).  That could save another bunch of money on
          registration fees.

          The viewer, which I rarely use, is really messed up in
          conjunction with Windows 3.0.  Appears to work O.K. with 3.1
          though.

          There are now three calculators.  In addition to the
          previous two, there is a financial calculator (HP rpn
          style).  These calculators make the Windows ones look like
          garbage.

          I really liked NDW 1 and NDW 2 looks just a little bit more
          polished with the largest advances being the AntiVirus and
          DeskEdit.

          Richard Hughes
          rhughes@ucsd.edu