Talk:PC Tools (Central Point Software)

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[edit] CP Desktop

I also need to speculate, that CP Desktop for Windows has not been beaten by anything else up to today, ~13 years later (especially its file manager). However it consumed lots of memory. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.21.12.27 (talk • contribs) 12 August 2006

Please note that as a general rule, talk pages are for discussion related to improving the article, not general discussion about the topic. Personal (unsourced) opinions do not belong on Wikipedia. -- intgr 03:17, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PC Tools company

This should be separated into 2 articles, because CP PC Tools and PC Tools company PC Tools only share a name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.21.44.59 (talk • contribs) 8 September 2006

Done! rohith 17:42, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PC Tools windows software developer

Someone just did a CSD request on the recently split off company article. If it is deleted, we should protect/be vigilant against recreation of content here on this article. 70.55.88.134 03:18, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Yep, I'll be watching... Big Brother is watching!! lol.. rohith 17:47, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How about earlier PC Tools utilities?

I remember some ocpy products, including an accessory card that ran the floppy drive and copied copy protected software. They also had a tool for capturing the memory footprint of an otherwise copy protrcted program and then making an EXE file from that so you could just ruin that EXE afterwards. Since the EXE "believed" copy protection had already been checked, it just ran from there! Also, my experience of PC Backup was in credible - it woudl just run and run and wait while you swapped in the next floppy, it woudl check it and either say, "No, this disk is already used, try another", or it would format a blank disk, or just wait for the next disk - very smart and very quick and very reliable ... back in the floppy backup days. I still use their MI Memory Information program in DOS and their Diagnostics program is quite good at identifying and testing serial and parallel ports (a lost art, eh?) using loop-back plugs. I was a beta testor for v6 and v7 and we got dozens of update disks daily which were overwhelming. I just about got the next beta installed and another set of floppies arrived in the mail - geesh! I believe Microsoft used their anti virus for a while, right? Peterblaise 11:48, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Which PC Tools take priority

There are two main PC Tools -- there is PC Tools the current company and there was Central Point PC Tools the software product.

I don't think the correct one currently has precedence in regards to its relevancy today.

Central Point PC Tools
  • Was acquired by Symantec and stopped being produced ~13 years ago.
  • It was basically a DOS application and although there are a lot of us the grew up on DOS most of todays' users started with Windows 95+ and would never have used it.
  • It was a great product but how many people today would still run it, compared to the number of people using PC Tools products?
PC Tools
  • Is a current active company, producing products today.
  • It is regularly mentioned in all sorts of media; magazines, TV, radio, newspapers and particularly online.
  • If someone heard about PC Tools today and wanted more information it would be highly likely it was PC Tools the company not something that stopped over a decade ago.
  • PC Tools the company have the registered US trademark for PC Tools US registered trademark number 3271662
  • PC Tools is part of the Google Pack and would be installs on heaps of PCs
  • Just their antispyware program has been downloaded over 100 million times[1] that's probably 10x more from one product than CP PC Tools in its entire lifespan.
Suggestion

Move the current PC Tools to Central Point PC Tools with a reference from the PC Tools page; move PC Tools (Windows software suite) to PC Tools.

The PC Tools page would then need to be expanded as it's a limited stub at the moment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Securitydude (talk • contribs)

There's also the PC Tools (magazine) article, so I think this warrants a disambiguation page instead. I have created one at PC Tools. -- intgr #%@! 23:25, 25 August 2007 (UTC)