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Norton Ghost
You know the drudgery involved in manually setting up and rolling out new PC, updating existing PCs, and recovering failed PCs. Norton Ghost™ makes a big dent in the time required to conduct these jobs, giving you back the time you need to provide more important services to your end users. Norton Ghost is fast becoming a "must have" PC management and help desk tool. Norton Ghost™ works by creating an exact image of a PC's hard drive, effectively taking a "snapshot" of all the files -- hidden, visible, and active -- that make up the operating system, applications, and configuration settings. The image can then be copied to any number of PCs, thereby creating completely identical installations. Moreover, it can be copied to many PCs simultaneously, reducing the time required for large roll out and upgrade jobs by 90% or more. Our Review: Ok, if you work in the kind of office that I do, where hundreds of items of software are installed and un-installed everyday, registries are fiddled with and win.ini files are altered all of the time, then your machines get VERY slow and VERY buggy. If you are sick of all of this, then just Norton Ghost. Format 1 computer, install everything perfectly as you want it and then make an image of its hard-drive. Then format it on to all of the other machines in the office. Very, very good. It claims to be able to produce 500 identically formatted machines within 7 mins....... However the demo version only lets disk images be used for 15 days so you better hurry.... Then again, 15 days = 21600 Minutes @ 500 Computers per Seven minutes = 1, 542 , 857 Computers...... I don't think you'll need it any longer than that but if you reformat once a month, you'll need to buy the full version.
Licence: Shareware - 30 Days Trial Version: 6.0 OS: Win 95/98, Win 2000, Win NT Date: 2000/09/23 Developer: Symantec Corporation Size: 13.60 MB		Free download
Yippee Ratings Breakdown (5 is best): Installation: 47 Interface: 45 Functionality: 47 Documentation: 48