Although unsupported, I have NU 16 installed under Win 8.1 preview, and everthing seems to function well, no incompatibility warnings or features not working incorrectly so far. I imagine that it will be updated to fully support 8.1 once it is released in October. Am I correct?
Has anyone else tried installing and running NU 16 under Win 8.1 preview and if so, how did it go?
I have been hesitant to try without some official word from Symantec.
Although unsupported, I have NU 16 installed under Win 8.1 preview, and everthing seems to function well, no incompatibility warnings or features not working incorrectly so far. I imagine that it will be updated to fully support 8.1 once it is released in October. Am I correct?
Has anyone else tried installing and running NU 16 under Win 8.1 preview and if so, how did it go?
I have used NU 16 on Windows 8.1 RTM now and so far no problems, even with the registry utilities, but as always, keep a backup of everything on hand in case things get out of hand. I made a system image of my Windows 8.1 installation before using NU, just in case. I wish a symantec employee would comment on whether NU 16 is officially supported on 8.1 or not. Everything else, speed disk, disk cleanup tools, etc should be safe to use but I would avoid using the registry tools until we can get confirmation on 8.1 support.
With the release of Norton Utilities 16.0.1.4 does this add support for Windows 8.1 RTM or has NU 16 always had 8.1 support?
I discovered a very bad problem with Norton Utilities 16 and Windows 8.1 since ugrading using the free Microsoft Windows 8.1 upgrade.
Upon using the "Clean Your Registry" feature to clean up after the Win 8.1 upgrade, the registry cleaner causes the Windows Search and File Indexer to permanently stop functioning. The first thing I noticed was degraded performance, then upon doing a file search a drop down message in the search window stated: "Your searches may be slow because the file indexer is not working - Click here to start it" or words to that effect. Upon attempting to restart it, it does not work, even trying to restart the search service does not work either.
I went into the Control Panel and looked into the Indexing Options section, sure enough the file indexer was not running
and I could not restart the File Indexer from there either. None of the options work, or were "greyed out".
I have reported this problem to symantec support and I was told that a patch file will be released soon.
My indexer now works again because I managed to restore an earlier drive image file. I advise new upgraders to be aware of this problem and not to use the clean registry feature, until the Windows 8.1 patch is released.
I have same problem too.
Thanks for reporting this issue.
The team is looking into this issue.
I have the same problem. Unfortunately, I tried restoring earlier versions of the registry within Norton 16 and could not restore my windows search. I also restored an earlier backup and problem still exists. My next earlier backup is just before I installed Windows 8.1 and I was hoping to avoid doing that. Another side effect is my Windows Photo App runs and then immediately quits. I heard that is a related problem to the search not working.
I would appreciate any recommendation on how to get the Windows Search to work again without having to restore to a pre-Windows 8.1 backup.
I'm running Norton Utilities with Windows 8.1, and my main concern at this point is when I run a defrag of my hard drive. I'm notified that restore points will be erased when the defrag is run, seemingly all existing restore points.
Why is this done? The point of having restore points is to be able to return to them if a problem is encountered at a later date. Erasing them each time a defrag is run leaves me at risk.
I understand they take up space on the hard drive, and keeping them "forever" probably isn't advisable. However, allowing me to choose which to delete and when seems a better solution than erasing them all with each defrag. I would rather be able to run frequent defrags without risk of losing my restore points each time.
I noticed something else today. When I run clear my browsing history, cookies do not seem to be cleared.
I've selected a few of the hundreds of cookies listed to be retained. I'm expecting the list to only contain those cookies selected to be retained if I look at it immediately after clearing the browsing history, but the same list of hundreds remains.
I do not have a browser open when I clear the history, and I've tried checking both with and without a reboot after clearing history.
I'm running Norton Utilities 16.0.1.4 and Windows 8.1 with IE 11.0.9600.16438
Am I misunderstanding something or are the cookies not actually being cleared?
I have been hesitant to try without some official word from Symantec.
Although unsupported, I have NU 16 installed under Win 8.1 preview, and everthing seems to function well, no incompatibility warnings or features not working incorrectly so far. I imagine that it will be updated to fully support 8.1 once it is released in October. Am I correct?
Has anyone else tried installing and running NU 16 under Win 8.1 preview and if so, how did it go?
I have used NU 16 on Windows 8.1 RTM now and so far no problems, even with the registry utilities, but as always, keep a backup of everything on hand in case things get out of hand. I made a system image of my Windows 8.1 installation before using NU, just in case. I wish a symantec employee would comment on whether NU 16 is officially supported on 8.1 or not. Everything else, speed disk, disk cleanup tools, etc should be safe to use but I would avoid using the registry tools until we can get confirmation on 8.1 support.
With the release of Norton Utilities 16.0.1.4 does this add support for Windows 8.1 RTM or has NU 16 always had 8.1 support?
I discovered a very bad problem with Norton Utilities 16 and Windows 8.1 since ugrading using the free Microsoft Windows 8.1 upgrade.
Upon using the "Clean Your Registry" feature to clean up after the Win 8.1 upgrade, the registry cleaner causes the Windows Search and File Indexer to permanently stop functioning. The first thing I noticed was degraded performance, then upon doing a file search a drop down message in the search window stated: "Your searches may be slow because the file indexer is not working - Click here to start it" or words to that effect. Upon attempting to restart it, it does not work, even trying to restart the search service does not work either.
I went into the Control Panel and looked into the Indexing Options section, sure enough the file indexer was not running
and I could not restart the File Indexer from there either. None of the options work, or were "greyed out".
I have reported this problem to symantec support and I was told that a patch file will be released soon.
My indexer now works again because I managed to restore an earlier drive image file. I advise new upgraders to be aware of this problem and not to use the clean registry feature, until the Windows 8.1 patch is released.
I have same problem too.
Thanks for reporting this issue.
The team is looking into this issue.
I have the same problem. Unfortunately, I tried restoring earlier versions of the registry within Norton 16 and could not restore my windows search. I also restored an earlier backup and problem still exists. My next earlier backup is just before I installed Windows 8.1 and I was hoping to avoid doing that. Another side effect is my Windows Photo App runs and then immediately quits. I heard that is a related problem to the search not working.
I would appreciate any recommendation on how to get the Windows Search to work again without having to restore to a pre-Windows 8.1 backup.
I'm running Norton Utilities with Windows 8.1, and my main concern at this point is when I run a defrag of my hard drive. I'm notified that restore points will be erased when the defrag is run, seemingly all existing restore points.
Why is this done? The point of having restore points is to be able to return to them if a problem is encountered at a later date. Erasing them each time a defrag is run leaves me at risk.
I understand they take up space on the hard drive, and keeping them "forever" probably isn't advisable. However, allowing me to choose which to delete and when seems a better solution than erasing them all with each defrag. I would rather be able to run frequent defrags without risk of losing my restore points each time.