TuneUp Utilities

The Recipe for a Clean PC

Symptoms: Your hard disk is clogged up by redundant data crud, you’re running out of free space for your important personal data and even your brand-new PC runs like it’s years old. But that’s not all - you’ll even encounter annoying error messages when working with Windows® or your favorite programs.

Cause: Windows® and your programs constantly save log files, “Most Recently Used“ lists and temporary data on your hard disk. Unfortunately, these unnecessary files and data entries are often-times “forgotten” and remain on your hard disk – forever! Over time, that leads to critical disk space issues and problems with applications.

Solution: That’s the perfect job for your all-new TuneUp Disk Cleaner 2013. In our internal tests, it performed 6 times more effectively than in our last version. Now, TuneUp Utilities 2013 removes the system clutter of more than 150 popular PC programs in just a few clicks. Or turn it on autopilot and let our Automatic Maintenance and 1-Click-Maintenance features do the cleaning job for you, regularly and safely.

The all-new Disk Cleaner 2013 gets rid of system clutter and temporary files left over by Windows® and 3rd party software. Here’s an overview:

Get 25 browser cleaners in one

Symptoms: Temporary browsing data, cookies, and other leftover files are not just a privacy concern, but may also lead to browser crashes or errors when browsing the web.

Cause: Users tend to forget to clean out the browser cache or use the built-in cleaning features which mostly don’t clean as thoroughly as they should.

Solution: TuneUp Browser Cleaner, part of TuneUp Utilities 2013, quickly and easily protects user privacy, fixes problems when browsing websites and restores disk space by deleting data trails left over by more than 25 browsers, including Internet Explorer®, Google Chrome™, Firefox®, Opera, Safari and more. With features, such as Flash cookie removal and browser database compression, TuneUp Browser Cleaner not only offers 25-cleaners-in-1, but will optimize more effectively than each browser’s built-in cleaning feature. TuneUp Browser Cleaner cleans up…
• Cache: Temporarily stored data of recently accessed websites
• Cookies: Identification technique for websites such as social media sites or shopping portals. And while it’s a convenient method for tracking, it’s also a privacy concern. TuneUp Browser Cleaner allows you to protect cookies of your favorite websites.
• Typed-in URLs: List of URLs you typed into the browser’s address bar.
• Entries for the last selected download folder
• Stored passwords: Passwords stored in your browser
• URL cache: Cache for all previously typed in URLs
• Data base: Compression of the browser database
• Updates: Unnecessary update files (for example, from Aurora builds of Firefox®)
• … and many more!

Finds and Stops Performance Hogs

Symptoms: All your programs (browsers, e-mail, photo editing suites) take much longer to start and their performance slows down to a crawl. Browsing through local files is slow, and movies or web clips stutter when you watch them.

Cause: A program or process that’s running in the background consumes 100% of your CPU’s power. That could be a resource-hungry browser with dozens of tabs open or a process that crashed. A high usage of background programs lead to significant slowdowns of active programs.

Solution: TuneUp Utilities 2013 combines two technologies, Live Optimization and Program Deactivator, into one. The all-new Live Optimization 2.0 improves the prioritization process of all processes and helps you to stop resource-hungry processes. Here’s how it works:
• Detection: Live Optimization detects programs that you’re not actively using but that are taking up most of your CPUs power.
• Optimization: If a process is taking up too much CPU resources, Live Optimization 2.0 automatically balances resources more effectively. Programs that you’re actively using are now much faster again.
• Deactivation: Live Optimization also helps you to find processes that constantly need to be optimized. If you never use the program in question, you can easily turn all of its resource usage off using TuneUp Program Deactivator.
• Adaptation: Live Optimization 2.0 intelligently learns which programs you use regularly and guarantees better performance for your favorite applications.

Simply put, TuneUp Live Optimization 2.0 focuses your PC’s power on what you’re doing and not on what a program is doing in the background.

For a neat and clean-looking desktop

Symptoms: There are countless invalid entries and shortcuts scattered all over your desktop, Windows® and your favorite programs.

Cause: This occurs when you delete a file, but Windows® and programs still list it in their "Most Recently Used" lists (MRU).

Solution: TuneUp Utilities 2013's Shortcut Cleaner turns chaos into order by removing unnecessary shortcuts on your desktop, in your start menu, and in “recently used” lists like songs played in Media Player or documents opened in Microsoft Office that were deleted a long time ago.

TuneUp Registry Cleaner

Symptoms: When working at your PC, you get countless error messages, performance is unusually low and there are constant delays.

Cause: Over the course of a computer’s lifetime, hundreds of entries are left over in the registry database of Windows®. These so-called values and keys refer to files, file types, applications, folders, or startup programs that no longer exist.

Solution: TuneUp Registry Cleaner solves these problems by detecting and fixing registry errors such as:
• Startup entries that a 3rd party application forgot to delete, which could lead to problems during startup
• Invalid file type pointers, which could lead to problems while opening files
• Orphaned entries within the list of installed applications, which could lead to trouble when installing or uninstalling

TuneUp Registry Defrag

Your registry inevitably ends up being full of “gaps” upon cleaning, or simply using your PC. Over time, the Windows® registry continues to grow and grow. TuneUp Registry Defrag performs complete registry restructuring and gets rid of all the gaps. This leads to fewer problems when accessing the database, as well as overall improved performance.
Edit the registry

TuneUp Utilities 2013 supports PC professionals with Windows® registry edits. TuneUp Registry Editor is more comprehensive and easier to use than Windows® own registry editor "regedit". It includes an easy-to-use search function, as well as an intuitive “Favorites” function that makes it simple to edit permissions. It’s foolproof, too, as unwanted changes can be easily corrected in the TuneUp Rescue Center.