Back in the MS-Dos days Norton was the only game in town for a bunch of things... Disk defragmenting, tools for working with file system, etc. It was a swiss army knife of good tools. But your point is generally correct in that for the last 20 years it has been atrociously bad.
>Back in the MS-Dos days Norton was the only game in town for a bunch of things
In the mid-1980s, PC Tools[0] was a worthy competitor to Norton.
Norton Commander was amazing; had it running on my family PCs since 1990 and up until it got upgraded to Windows 2000. Nothing good came from Norton since (that I know of).
I should've said that my dad still manually runs dfrg.msc weekly and has a shortcut to it on his desktop lol
dfrgui.exe
Though I guess if it's a shortcut you don't see the actual filename too often. :)
ah, that's what I meant—I didn't realize it had been renamed!