TuneUp Utilities

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TuneUp Utilities is a utility software suite forMicrosoft Windows designed to help manage, maintain, optimize, configure and troubleshoot a computer system. It is produced and developed by TuneUp Software GmbH, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany and co-founded by Tibor Schiemann and Christoph Laumann in 1997.The American version of the software is distributed by TuneUp Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of TuneUp Software GmbH located in Miami, Florida.

As of 2011, nine versions of TuneUp Utilities have been released and the number of included components have been increased from sixteen to thirty-two. TuneUp Utilities have attained generally positive reviews, although multiple reviewers did not approve of its price for value.

TuneUp Utilities 2013, the latest version of the product, consists of 30 different components, all of which can be accessed from within a central hub, called TuneUp Start Center. Most of these components can also be invoked from the Start menu. TuneUp Start Center itself can show the components either in a category view (default) or in a list view.

[edit]Status and recommendations

The Status and recommendations category houses four sub-sections: 1-Click Maintenance,Performance Optimizer, Fix Problems and Live Optimization. The 1-Click Maintenance section runs multiple routine maintenance tools at once. The Performance Optimizer and Fix Problems utilities are intended to provide tips to identify and fix potential problems and increase performance, such as disabling unnecessary visual effects and disabling or removing unused Windows services and programs. Live Optimization, according to the application's author, is intended to improve the responsiveness of Windows applications by tweaking their execution priorities.

TuneUp Utilities 2012 in list view mode, showing all its 30 components.

[edit]System Optimizations

The Optimize system section includes TuneUp Program Deactivator, which unloads programs from memory and prevents their further automatic execution, an alternative touninstalling them. While disabled programs continue to consume disk space, they no longer affect the startup time, the shutdown time and the system performance.Other components include a defragmentation tool, aregistry cleaner, and a startup manager to replaceMSConfig. 

[edit]Disk cleanup

The Gain disk space section itself is a disk cleanup component which 

replaces Windows Disk Cleanup. It also gives access to TuneUp Disk Space Explorer (a disk space analyzer) and TuneUp Shredder (a data erasure tool).

[edit]Troubleshooting tools

The Fix problems section provides access to TuneUp Repair Wizard which allows users to selectively repair problems that TuneUp Utilities cannot automatically detect; e.g. icons getting corrupted or items like My Computer and Recycle Bin permanently vanished from Windows Desktop.

Also in this category, there is TuneUp Disk Doctor. It can check the integrity of files stored on hard disk drives and salvage damaged files. It can also scan for physical defects known as bad sectors and isolate them. TuneUp Disk Doctor is a graphical replacement for Windows CHKDSK.

Other items include a task manager, a system information tool and an undeletion tool.

[edit]Windows customization

The last section provides access to TuneUp Styler and TuneUp System Control. TuneUp System Control is a program that allows access to some of the obscure or harder-to-access settings of Microsoft Windows, similar to Tweak UI. TuneUp Styler allows for customization of the Windows user interface by changing the desktop appearance, icons, and the logon and startup screens.

[edit]Turbo Mode

The Turbo Mode, accessible from the bottom of Start Center, gives system a performance boost by temporarily disabling some of Windows services and features of user's choice, such as Windows Aerothemes and visual effects.

[edit]Economy Mode

The Economy Mode accessible from the bottom of Start Center, gives system a more battery power to save by reducing background programmes and CPU power to saves battery.

TuneUp Utilities 2004

Introduces TuneUp 1-Click Maintenance and TuneUp WinStyler (the predecessor TuneUp Styler.. Also includes registry defragmentation support for Windows 2000 and XP.

TuneUp Utilities 2006

In TuneUp Utilities 2006, optimization, customization and disk cleaning tools support Mozilla Firefox. Its TuneUp StartUp Manager displays editorial rating and explanations about well-known programs that start during computer startup. TuneUp Styler in this version is able to change the boot logo of Windows XP.

TuneUp Utilities 2007

Features two new components: TuneUp Disk Doctor and TuneUp Disk Space Explorer.TuneUp Utilities 2007 also supports Windows Vista.

TuneUp Utilities 2008

Incorporates two more components: TuneUp Drive Defrag (the defragmentation tool) and TuneUp Repair Wizard (the troubleshooting tool). TuneUp Utilities 2008 no longer has a separate disk cleanup component; the disk cleanup function has become part of the Start Center, under a newGain disk space section.

TuneUp Utilities 2009

Start Center in this version includes a new section that analyzes the system and then displays the current status as well as available recommendations (if any) in the three areas: System maintenance, Speed and System status.^[18] New tools in this version are TuneUp Speed Optimizer(renamed StartUp Optimizer in subsequent versions) and TuneUp Shortcut Cleaner. A new TuneUp Styler can change the Windows Vista logo animation displayed during startup.

TuneUp Utilities 2010

TuneUp Utilities is compatible with Windows 7. A new Turbo Mode introduced in this version allows to disable multiple background functions of Windows and programs with one click, likeWindows Aero, Windows Search, Windows Error Reporting or synchronization with mobile devices.Also includes TuneUp Live Optimization.

TuneUp Utilities 2011

Features TuneUp Program Deactivator; it can disable programs that impose significant system load, thereby eliminating the load without uninstalling the programs. If the user tries to start a disabled program again, TuneUp Program Deactivator automatically re-enables the program on the fly. A new program rating functionality in this version shows how other TuneUp Utilities users have rated the usefulness of a given program on a scale of 1 to 5 stars.The Start Center also includes a Tuning Status, which tracks and displays optimization progress and highlights areas with remaining optimization potential.

TuneUp Utilities 2012

Features a new Economy Mode that when enabled, helps save battery power of laptops.

                                                       

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