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The Norton Utilities releases were collections of software utilities. Peter Norton published the first version for DOS, The Norton Utilities, Release 1, ca 1981. Release 2 came out several years later, subsequent to the first hard drives for the IBM PC line. Peter Norton's company was sold to Symantec in 1990. However his name remains as a "brand" for Symantec's range of utility and security software for home users.
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System Utilities Pro is a bundle of many utilities available in a single product. It will make your system run in a smoother, faster and error-free manner. Why buy a new computer when you can still use the one you have?
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To examine how well investors fared, Public Utilities Fortnightly examined total shareholder return of more than 80 companies. Companies were grouped by asset mix, business focus and corporate strategy in five categories: energy delivery, gas distribution, integrated gas, power generation and integrated electric and gas. ONEOK was included in the integrated gas category.
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The Windows version of Norton Utilities was originally released for Microsoft Windows 95. Norton was in need of a major update as the VFAT system used by Windows 95 to provide long file names was incompatible with utilities such as Norton Utilities' 'SPEEDISK.EXE'. However, the Windows version, called 'Speed Disk' works with much greater speed than Microsoft's supplied defrag program, as it moved groups of clusters, not single clusters as Microsoft's Windows Disk Defragmenter. Changes in the way Windows operates meant that many of the old utilities were either dropped completely or replaced with GUI based versions. However, with the advent of Windows XP onwards, Norton's 'Speed Disk' reverted back to single-cluster defragmentation.
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For the long-term, the Ameren Illinois utilities support the creation of the Illinois Power Agency to purchase power for Illinois utilities, with oversight by the Illinois Commerce Commission. The new governmental agency will replace the reverse auction used last September to obtain power for the Ameren Illinois utilities.
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Norton Utilities for Macintosh was a separate utility suite for the Mac OS, providing much of the same features as the equivalent Windows version. Version 1.0 for the Macintosh was released in 1990. When Apple released System 7, Norton Utilities for the Macintosh needed to be updated in order to run safely. This proved to be a recurring story in the history of this utility; version 4 was highly regarded for a while, but proved to be specifically hazardous to use with newer disk structures and operating systems.
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