Norton SystemWorks is a discontinued utility software suite by Symantec Corp.

SystemWorks was innovative in that it combined several applications into an all-in-one software for managing computer health, thus saving significant costs and time often spent on using different unrelated programs.

SystemWorks, which was introduced in 1998 has since inspired a host of competitors such as iolo System Mechanic, McAfee Nuts And Bolts, Badosoft First Aid and many others.

The precursor of Norton SystemWorks was released in March 1996[1] for PCs running Windows NT 3.51 or later.

The bonus pack included Zip-It, Visual Page, WinFax Basic Edition, and Norton 2000.

Made available in August 2001 for consumer purchase,[8] the 2002 update added Windows XP support.

Released for consumer purchase in September 2003,[10] Norton SystemWorks 2004 was the first version of the software to introduce product activation.

[12] Beginning with this release, Symantec began to market the Professional Edition as Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier.

The Premier version added Symantec Recovery Disk and Norton Ghost 9.0 on top of the Standard Edition.

Premier also included Norton Ghost 10.0 and Symantec Recovery Disk on top of the Standard Edition.

[16] This version of the software released to consumers for retail purchase in November 2007[17] and added support for Windows Vista.

Instead, the version number (12.0) was printed on the box and used instead, though the model year appears on some Symantec sites.

Third-party software (for OS X) includes Dantz Retrospect Express, Aladdin Spring Cleaning and iClean 4.0.2,[23] Alsoft DiskWarrior Recovery Edition.

Third-party software includes Aladdin Spring Cleaning 5.0, Dantz Retrospect Express 5.0.238.

[26] Update 3.0.1 added support for G5 models released before December 2004, the 1.25 GHz eMac and various G4 notebooks.