Get started with Norton Utilities Ultimate

With frequent use, the reliability and performance of your computer begins to decline. You may notice the following issues:

• Programs that run slowly, crash, or freeze

• Lack of disk space

• Pop-ups from 'bloatware' applications

• Problems while starting your computer

Norton Utilities Ultimate is an optimization tool that helps you automatically optimize your computer's processing power, memory, and hard drive. It also helps fix common issues and frees up space to provide faster access to the programs you want, when you want them.

If you purchased Norton Utilities Ultimate as an add-on to your existing Norton subscription, installation and activation happens automatically after purchase. If installation did not happen for some reason, you can download and install Norton Utilities Ultimate from your Norton account. For instructions, see Download and install Norton Utilities Ultimate.

After product activation, do the following tasks:

• Optimize and defragment your computer disks (See instructions)

• Clean up system junk, broken registry keys, and broken shortcuts (See instructions)

• Isolate and uninstall the unwanted programs (See instructions)

• Disable startup and background processes (See instructions)

• Clear your browser data such as browser cache, cookies, and browsing history (See instructions)

After the performing the above optimization tasks, you can enable Automatic Cleaning to let Norton Utilities Ultimate perform the cleaning task at regular intervals in the background. You can always view the summary of activities in the Statistics window.

If for any reason Norton Utilities Ultimate encounters any error, you can:

• Undo the recent changes made (See instructions), or

• Send the debug logs to Norton (See instructions)