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  | 40% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Symantec Catalog: Software Release date: 2001-12-09 Media: CD-ROM Format: CD-ROM Ean: 0037648211505 Upc: 037648211505  Tip: compare prices with similar software products |
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Compatible with: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95, Windows XP |
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Written on November 22, 2002 Summary: Slow, slower, slowest! I've used PC Anywhere in all its iterations. As a professional software analyst, I used to require that all my clients purchase a copy. But not anymore. My biggest beef is that even when both the host and remote connections are high speed Internet, this product responds too slowly. When using this product, I can click with my mouse, go to the bathroom, get a second cup of coffee and pet my dog before the command will take effect. I much prefer using WebX or VPN as a tool of choice for remote support. On the plus side, remote support after hours, while slow, is relatively painless. Written on October 31, 2002 Summary: Caused an infinite loop on XP Pro. Good product if it would work. Installed on a Dell Inspiron 4000 running XP Pro. On the first re-boot the device driver (ATi2dvai) caused an infinite loop. After an hour of re-boots I was finally able to get in to safe mode and see the 5 other error messages (video compatability problems, AW_HOST.sys had to be disabled, WINAW32.exe no functioning.....) Ended up having to restore back to two weeks ago. This is a good product if you don't mind a slow connection and are NOT running XP. If you are running XP or plan to in the future wait for a new version to come out before buying pcAnywhere  Written on September 6, 2002 Summary: Degrading Quality As with many of Symantec products over the years, the quality factor seems to be degrading with each new release. pcAnywhere is certainly no exception. What was once a stellar product backed by quality support is now riddled with installation issues, product quality issues, lack of performance and hardly any support at all. Installation on certain Windows 2000 and XP machines may render the operating system unbootable, in which case you must reinstall the operating system from scratch to get the system working again. Assuming you manage to successfully install the product, performance is naggingly slow on connections slower than a T1 line or internal 100Mbps Ethernet network. You'll likely go mad attempting to type text on a remote computer attached via DSL or cable modem. The only notable exception is that pcAnywhere performs file transfers (particularly updates to existing files) at rather outstanding speed by using Symantec's SpeedSync technology. On the down side, we have found that the pcAnywhere host has a habit of hanging. The only way to unhang the host is to restart the pcAnywhere service on the remote box. If the remote host is not on the local domain, you may have to drive to the remote location to restart the pcAnywhere service. Windows Terminal Services offers a much better alternative and is included with Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server. Windows Terminal Services is also available on Windows XP Professional under the name Remote Desktop Connection. Written on August 11, 2002 Summary: Problems with XP After many days of trying I have finally had to give up the attempt to get this product working with our single machine running XP pro. There have been two main issues: Firstly there seems to be issues with the shipped product that requires a download from symantec to fix (blank screen after reboot). Secondly (and terminally) when a disk check is carried out post install, the machine checks the disk and then hangs. Aborting the check also causes a hang. If you do get a successfull reboot by using Last Known Good then the disk increasingly incorrectly reports file & folder sizes. No viruses seem to be present (boot sector or otherwise). Installs via the recommedend Clean Boot method were tried. Obviously this may be peculiar to the system we were using (we could not find any reference to this type of problem on the Symantec site or elsewhere): Toshiba Satellite 1800, XP Pro (Retail Upgrade, clean install), NTFS volume, PCanywhere 10.5 from CD. Pcanywhere seems to work fine in other cofigurations, on other machines that we have tried - win98, win 2k on Compaqs & Panasonics. I have to agree with other reviews I have read that Symantec products are shipping less and less robust (we also have had problems with NIS 2002). Written on June 21, 2002 Summary: THIS PRODUCT GETS WORSE WITH EVERY RELEASE I've used PCAW for over ten years now, and been through every new release. The product just gets less and less stable, and we have asked for a refund on version 10.5. I use the product to connect to at least 50 networks, some by modem, others by IP. Version 10.5 dropped support for DOS-based clients, which we still have some of; but you have to remove earlier versions when you install 10.5, which gives me no alternative to connect to those hosts. Also, be prepared to replace your pre-9.2 versions if you want 10.5 as they can't coexist -- which means, you have no way to connect to older hosts (I'm not sure, but I think they also dropped compatibility with some Windows versions, which means hosts running older windows versions would have to purchase a new license). We had several incidents where we could NEVER connect reliably with Windows 2000 hosts. Support is near-nonexistent, with the Symantec website blaming everyone else PLUS the kitchen sink for the problems, but giving no solutions. At one point, we tried to connect and got simply a blank screen. On visiting their website, I found numerous similar situations on their support discussion forum, and their answer was ... "this could be a video card, or it could be a modem, or it could be phone line problems". But it couldn't be their software. Version 10.5 appears to be a tremendous step backward. We tried it only because we were having problems with version 9.2 under Windows 2000. Perhaps my greatest concern now is where to find a different product that will solve this problem. I've used PCAW for so long I've come to rely heavily on it. I think this problem is greater than just PCAW. Other Symantec products seem to suffer from similar situations. We've had great difficulty in installing Norton Antivirus under W2K -- in some instances requiring lengthy procedures to "uninstall" previously failed installations. All this costs money. Same thing with SystemWorks. Bottom line, it seems like Symantec is cranking out some fairly bad software at this time. Once you get it to work, you may be okay, but it just really seems to lack stability. |
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| List price | $179.99 | - | $199.95 | $199.99 | $199.95 |
| Lowest used price | $18.84 | $10.00 | $39.00 | $89.95 | - |
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| Catalog | Software | Software | Software | Software | Software |
| Release date | 2001-12-09 | - | 2004-11-16 | - | 2006-03-28 |
| Color variation | - | - | 1-user | - | 1-user |
| Media | CD-ROM | CD-ROM | CD-ROM | CD-ROM | CD-ROM |
| Format | CD-ROM | CD-ROM | CD-ROM | CD-ROM | CD-ROM |
| Model | - | 07-00-03416 | 10318995 | 12132368 | 10529224 |
| Ean | 0037648211505 | 0037648211543 | 0037648250252 | 0037648605687 | 0037648268806 |
| Upc | 037648211505 | 037648211543 | 037648250252 | 037648605687 | 037648268806 |
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