A Gnomie (Jason Fling) agrees with my perspective on Norton's Crapware, after one of our contributors posted something about it being a great suite of tools: “I'd have to respectively disagree with your listing of Norton Systemworks on the best diagnostics tools list. A quick Google search will reveal an above normal amount of problems with the last few versions. With my own experience, the only consumer product that Symantec makes that I recommend to my customer is Norton AV. Even with NAV 2004 & 2005 the activation portion of the setup is so clumsy and bulky that it's hard to recommend it, but no other manufacturer even gets close to NAV, when working properly.”

I used to love Norton Utilities and Norton Commander. And in that spriit, here are a few recommendations from the ocean of Explorer alternatives: freeCommander, Servant Salamander, Pablo Commander, BG's A43, Total Commander, EF Commander, AB Commander, Turbo Navigator, 2xExplorer, ExplorerXP, and ZTreeWin File Manager.