Customer Reviews
Version 4.01 can kill your drive if you have Tiger
I used Techtool for years, ats been a good tool... BUT...^M
Solid Diagnotics & Feature Set of Mac Utilities ... Repair Feature - Roll of Dice
Norton is dead as most you know. It will work on 10.2 or earlier but Norton SystemWorks does not work on any Mac OS after 10.2 very well. Norton had one thing going for it - it did a nice job of repairing B-tree catalog errors and directories - when things started going wonky, if you ran Norton, it would clear things up for a while. The other features might've worked well 5 years earlier but in the end (even though they updated them to run under OSX) were of dubious value - defragmentation, file recovery etc ... especially in the end when you no longer boot from the Norton CD, it was all rather useless and in case you hadn't noticed, the Norton UNINSTALLER only runs under OS9 so if your Mac can't boot OS9 (Classic), you can't remove all those invisible files they leave scattered around.^M
Beware of Tech tool
Used Tech tool Pro 4.0.6 on my Powerbook G4 running Tiger. Ran maintenance and optimization and all of a sudden my computer shut down and would not boot up all the way. After days on the phone with Micromat technical assistance- still nothing. They told me to call Disk Savers who could recover my files for $1400. Went to Apple Store, where we ran Disk Warrior- which had to rebuild my directories.(Why couldn't Tech Tool do this?) My files were saved, but now have to do a clean install of operating system, etc. What a pain!! Warning - be careful with this product.
