Tune Up Utilities 2011

Francesanne

moonbeep wrote: »

As far as I know its not free,but you get a trial,sorry cant post links,but if you google it you will find it!

Hope this helps

I've used the last 3 versions and it's been excellant & caused no problems. I've always paid for mine.

keith1950

Hi, I have tried several tune up utilities in the past and always been disappointed, however I recently bought Tune Up Utilities 2011 from Amazon for £11 with free delivery. It can be used on 3 different computers and while it did not seem to shorten the start up , all 3 computers run much faster.

JJ_Egan

bikerchris wrote: »

Here is a working link to something similar (PCPro review).

I have been maintaining residential computers for over 10 years, and in all that time I've never been impressed by 'tune up' software. Of course I might be biased but computers tend to slow down because of:

• a backlog of temp files
• an oversized temporary internet files folder
• software conflicts (poor installation management)
• children (with games or downloaded mild malware)
• big anti-virus programmes on low performance machines
• poor/no defrag (ashampoo magic defrag recommended)
• several years old without a re-install.
• startup items including programmes never used.
• possibly old/faulty hard drive (2-3 years+)

The list could indeed go on. I have visited so many people that were prepared to throw away their machine because they thought it was expiring. In the majority of cases it the machine only requires the removal of all personal files, then a CLEAN copy of the operating system installed (avoid hardware manufacture versions). I know this might be scary for some, but when you've done it once, it's quite easy and something that could be done every 2 years or whenever you lose patience with the machine!

There may come the day that the hard drive goes pop, in which case you can buy another and install it. Provided you have the use of another computer, you can google "hard drive" then click on images, so you know what you're removing. Provided you can understand the concept of a screwdriver, it shouldn't be too stressful a job.

I hope that helps :-)

And thats the truth the whole truth not much else to add really .
Apart from sticking on cleanup tune up and registry cleaners .
And no backup image i suppose would be another .

jje

santer_2

I've done the beta testing for them and ended up with the full product as an thankyou. Unlike a lot of these programmes, their trial version is fully functional. It will find most errors within a few days and all changes are reversible.

I use CCleaner and prefer the slim build which has no toolbars or other offers for software. There is a programme called CCenhancer, not associated with Piriform but it gives a few more options for cleaning applications

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds

http://thewebatom.net/programs/ccleaner-enhancer/

closed

Humans can do a far better tune up than any software solution, read this instead

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

GunJack

Some of the individual modules in TU software are useful. Still got TU 2008 on my pc for those useful modules, but don't run the FULL suite and the automated maintenance....