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ince the invention of the first personal computer, there have been many advances, but one thing has stayed the same: Pcs are a pain to deploy and maintain.
That's a good thing, of course, in that it keeps geeks like us off the streets. But it also means that a large slice of the work day can be wasted in nonproductive tasks.
Remember when children walked miles through the snow to get to school? Then you also remember when there was no way to recover DOS files that had been erased, unless you had a miraculous new program called Norton UnErase. You remember when there was no easy way to clone the hard disk of one machine onto another, unless you had another software secret called Ghost.
As Windows got steadily more complex, software vendors grouped these point solutions into bundles that purported to meet an administrator's every need. Some bundles, however, were poorly integrated, or blended valuable utilities with frivolous or unreliable ones.
Symantec (www.symantec.com), however, has gotten it right with Norton SystemWorks, expanding the program's core franchise via astute acquisitions....