TuneUp Utilities 2012

Even when not needed, background processes, services and scheduled tasks will often be running. Using the new TuneUp Program Deactivator™, you can turn off programs on demand, completely automatically, thus reducing the demands on your PC. The result: that “Windows® like it was on the very first day" feeling.

The brand-new Economy Mode offers extra mobility – just with the click of a button. It extends battery run-time on notebooks, netbooks and tablet PCs running Windows® by up to 30%, while also reducing energy consumption by up to 30%.* And it even optimises power management under Windows®.

Forget tedious time spent waiting, slow response times, unstable systems and frequent crashes. The tuning suite in TuneUp Utilities™ includes a range of easy-to-use tools to reliably improve the performance of your PC. Turbo Mode, for example, enables you to shut down over 70 applications that bring your PC to a crawl with just a single click. In addition, proven maintenance features allow you to perform a full registry clean-up and much, much more.

A special rating function enables you to check the usefulness of programs at any time. This provides a sound basis for decisions when installing and deactivating programs, or adding and removing autostart entries. Plus there’s the Optimization Status feature which enables you to check the effectiveness of tuning steps carried out.

The classic features of TuneUp Utilities at a glance:

• 1-Click Maintenance and Automatic Maintenance, a complete service package for your PC
• Reliable hard disk defragmentation, for even better performance
• TuneUp Registry Cleaner, for through Windows® registry cleaning
• Live Optimization, to speed up the operation of active programs
• Gain hard disk space by removing unnecessary data

*Extract from TuneUp Utilities™ 2012 whitepaper test results, as of 09/09/2011

TuneUp Utilities™ 2012 – What’s New

The next generation of TuneUp Utilities™ takes PC optimisation to a new level: Version 2012 introduces an all-new TuneUp Economy Mode, designed to drastically prolong battery run time on laptops and save energy, even on desktops. What’s more, our fully revamped TuneUp Program Deactivator™ makes your PC run as fast and as smoothly as it did on Day 1.

TuneUp Economy Mode: Longer-lasting battery. Lower energy consumption. Ever had your laptop go dark just minutes before the movie’s end credits roll? Ever stared at massive energy bills just because your desktop PC is a power sapper? TuneUp Utilities™ 2012 puts an end to all that: our brand new Economy Mode maximises battery run time on laptops, and reduces desktop power consumption effectively. The results speak for themselves:

• Longer battery run time: economy Mode gives laptops, netbooks and tablets up to 30 % more battery run time.*
• Feel free to go off the grid and work longer, edit more photos, watch your favourite films and browse more websites while on the go.
• Lower energy costs: PCs consume up to 30 % less power when Economy Mode is active.*
• Longer lifespan: less output means less stress. By powering down your PC and many of its components, your hardware is guaranteed to last longer.

* Compared to power-saving techniques found in Windows® 7.

TuneUp Program Deactivator™: Your PC as good as new. Now with automatic assistance!
PCs get slower and slower over time and with every program installed – it’s a sad fact of computing life. And the only solution is to wipe the disk clean and reinstall Windows®, right? Finally, we’ve found a better answer: our new and even more advanced TuneUp Program Deactivator™ reduces the impact of all installed 3rd party programs to almost zero. And best of all, you keep all your programs. Here’s how it works:

• If they don’t run, they don’t waste resources! Too many 3rd party programs cause background activity that you don’t need when working, watching a movie or playing games, not to mention annoyingly long start-up times. Thanks to TuneUp Program Deactivator™, users are in total control over which programs should be active while the rest “go to sleep”. By temporarily turning off startup entries, disabling scheduled tasks, and services or stopping processes, programs no longer bog down your PC.
• The moment you need them, they’re back on! The very second you launch a program, TuneUp Program Deactivator™ enables it “on-the-fly”.
• NEW! The moment you’re done, they go “back to sleep”! Just moments after you close the application, TuneUp Program Deactivator™ turns all of its active components off. This means enhanced performance for all your tasks and more battery life for when you’re on the go.

From now on, programs won’t slow things down for you. You are free to install 100 or even more of them –and still have your Windows® run as fresh as it did on Day 1. With TuneUp Program Deactivator™, you can be sure that only the programs you launch are drawing on your PC’s power. This makes it even better than reinstalling Windows®, simply because you permanently avoid the slowdown, and not just for a couple of weeks. Still not convinced? A German test lab** compared the performance of a typical desktop PC before and after being bogged down with about 180 popular 3rd party applications. In nearly all disciplines, TuneUp Utilities™ 2012 was able to restore the original performance. This improvement is largely due to the amount of resources (re)gained and background activities reduced with TuneUp Program Deactivator™.

TuneUp Utilities™ 2012: Approved features. Optimised design.
A revised user interface makes TuneUp Utilities™ 2012 the easiest and cleanest version to date. The look brings together all the great optimisation features, such as TuneUp Program Deactivator™, Economy Mode and Automatic Maintenance, with all their settings in one place. Our goal was to reduce clicks and save you precious time:

• Improved! A faster interface: Lightning-fast start-up and navigation across more than 30 tools of TuneUp Utilities™
• Easy! Fewer clicks, more transparency: A more intuitive design makes TuneUp Utilities™ easier to use.
• New! All in one place: The new central settings dialogue gives users total control over every single feature of TuneUp Utilities™ 2012 in one window.

System requirements

• Windows® XP (Service Pack 2 or higher), Windows® Vista or Windows® 7 (32- or 64-bit version)
• Min. 300 MHz processor
• 256 MB RAM
• Screen resolution at least 1024x600 pixels
• Online version: at least 150 MB of free disk space
• CD version: at least 400 MB of free disk space (and CD-ROM or DVD drive)