Norton Utilities 6.0 for Mac
The Norton Utilities is a suite of disk and system utilities designed to enhance system performance and stability. It started off as a set of disk utilities written by Peter Norton, and later was sold by Symantec. It competed against Central Point PC Tools and the Mace Utilities. In 2003, Norton Utilities was merged with Norton SystemWorks, but later split back out.
Wanted: Norton Utilities 1.x (DOS)
Release notes
This release was around the time Apple was transitioning to MacOS X. Similar to version 5.0, 6.0 requires a PowerPC running at least MacOS 8.1 though was able to run on MacOS 9 without requiring patches. The CD is also bootable. Sourced from original CD and imaged using Toast.
The Read Me file states the following changes from previous versions:
Repair and optimize OS X Beta disks while booted under OS 9, Rebuild Directories with Volume Recover, Rebuild desktop from scratch by deleting it with Norton Disk Doctor, Add a single file to the Desktop database, Repair and optimize, wipe free space and recover files from the Contextual Menus, Define how Speed Disk arrange files with Speed Disk Profiles.
Information
- Product type
- Application Utility
- Vendor
- Symantec
- Release date
- 2000
- Minimum CPU
- PowerPC
- User interface
- Text
- Platform
- MacOS
- Download count
- 49 (5 for release)
Downloads
| Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Norton Utilities 6.03 for Mac (ISO) |
6.03 for Mac | English |
|
38.74MB | 5 |