But I must admit after testing SystemWorks 2000 that I found new things inside the wrapping. Symantec seems to have built the new suite from the ground up. For one thing, you can now pick and choose what components you want to install. It s good to get an entire suite of programs in one box, but most users won t need all of them. SystemWorks virus definitions, below, update automatically and list their time of arrival.
Users can toggle between utilities.
Despite Symantec s fixes, I have had longstanding problems with CrashGuard, which sometimes halts a system during valid operations in the name of crash protection. Now I don t even have to install it anymore. The five main pieces are an antivirus tool, a utility, a hard drive management tool, the aforementioned CrashGuard and an update utility to keep system drivers current. In the past, users had to be somewhat technically proficient to make use of the utilities. The biggest change in SystemWorks 2000 is a simplified interface.