How Many Of You Use Utility Programs?

[AngelfireUk83]

If your Win XP Home to Pro to Linux do you use utility programs like Norton SystemWorks, Ghost for example. Place them on here with your views about them ranging from these catagory's.

Performance After Installation: Does it slow down your PC?

Memory Usage: Does it take up a good amount of RAM?

Errors With Other Programs: Does it cause conflicts with other software?

Has it ever caused you to format your PC?

Give it a Mark out of 10.

 

[MonroeM]

Tried SystemWorks 2003 once, noticed it slowed down the system (was a server system). Seemed like it had a butt-load of nice features though.

I use Ghost 9 ATM, works like a charm, no slow-downs, no resource-hogging (barely any used while it sits idle in the background) no conflicts or anything else really big. I give it a 10 for being such a usefull program. I wont give SW2003 a rating since I didn't use it all that long.

Norton Ghost 9.0: 10

 

[alphasl]

I've used Systemworks 2003 and 2005. I disabled most of the auto functions and it's pretty benign on my system.