The Gold Edition of Norton Utilities offers four new programs. Those who have used Norton Utilities before can rest assured that the handy and effective Norton Disk Doctor and Speed Disk are still there to analyse the surface of your hard disk or defragment it. Four new programs have also been added. They are Norton CrashGuard 3.0, Norton WinDoctor, Norton Optimization Wizard and Speed Start.
System crashes are frustrating.
If you have more than one program running, you can also try to isolate the crash by quitting that particular program without bringing down the others. CrashGuard was able to recover the system from most of the crashes but there were a few instances which could not be unfrozen. Still, having such a utility running in the background is better than nothing. The wise will still back up their work regularly. If you have an application that will not launch, try running WinDoctor.