Tuneup Utilities 2010 Review

Tuneup Utilities 2010 Review

Is Tuneup Utilities good or bad?

Pros:

• Phone Support
• Lots of features and tools
• 1-Click maintenance

Ease of Use:

Cons:

• It failed to find a fair few registry errors

Quick Overview:

Tuneup Utilities has lots performance improving tools, phone support, easy to use interface and a 1 click fix and optimize button. It has everything and more you would be expect from a quality system optimization application, what kept it from being higher up the ranks was its failure to find all registry errors and its moderate price.

Website: http://www.tune-up.com (click to visit)

The main screen displays four key areas:

• Maintain System lets you adjust automatic maintenance settings.
• Increase Performance displays an recommendations for improving the computers performance.
• Fix Problems alerts you to and errors or issues your system has and provides solutions.
• Customize Windows has a bunch of options to modify your computers interface.

The interface is a little unorthodox but I found it to be surprisingly easy to use – so much so I think I have fallen in love with the interface layout.

Features Explained:

1. Live Optimization: improves the performance of installed applications.

2. One-Click Fix: Click 1 button and Tune-up Utilities goes to work cleaning and improving the performance of your system.

3. Frees-up hard-drive space by removing junk items, deleting temporary files and locates additional space.

4. Improves boot time by disabling unnecessary startup applications.

5. Turns-off redundant windows services

6. Defrags Hard-drive

7. Removes broken shortcuts

8. Defrags the Registry

9. Cleans the Registry

10. Customize windows feature allows you to adjust the look of your computer such as starts screens and icons.

11. Tuneup Gadget is a little program that displays your computers health and gives you easy access to key functions of the program right from your desktop.

12. Restore Deleted Data

13. Scans your hard-drive for disk errors and fixes the errors

14. Lets you manage the current programs running – it also displays the process and memory use of each application currently running.

15. Optimization Report gives you important information like how many problems Tuneup Utilities 2010 has fixed and other important information about your system.

16. Backup/s are made so any changes made can be undone.

17. System information at a glance displays all sorts of important information about your computer such as RAM installed, CPU type and speed, etc.

18. Permanently Delete files from your computer

19. Turbo Mode: stop needless background applications and focus the computers processing power on active program/s.

Help and Support:

1. Online FAQ
2. Phone Support
3. Email Support
4. Manual/Guide

Awards/Postive Reviews:

1. Computer Shopper – Best Buy
2. PCUtilities – Editors Choice
3. WareSeeker – Editors Pick

Moneyback Guarantee:

30 days money-back guarantee

Conclusion:

Tuneup Utilities 2010 software is has a huge lineup of tools that are designed to repair, maintain, improve and tweak a bunch of settings on your system. It’s easy to use despite its unorthodox interface; it has phone support which is always worth a mention. I installed it on the test machine and it performed well enough to be given rank 5 in the system optimization category.

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