Here is a review or walkthrough of TuneUp Utilities 2008. The TuneUp Utilities claims to be able to increase a computers performance by cleaning the registry, effectively defragmenting the hard drive and preventing unwanted programs from starting up with Windows. The TuneUp Utilities package claims it can free up hard drive space and organize all those Gigabytes you have accumulated on the disk. This program has many features packed into it to help speed up and maintain you computer. I wanted to put TuneUp Utilities to the test.
The system used for this review of the TuneUp Utilities 2008 has an Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 processor running at 1.86GHz with 1.00 GB of RAM. How much more speed can I get out of this system? TuneUp Utilities 2008 says it can optimize a computer to its best performance.
The system currently boots up from a cold start to a usable desktop in 48 seconds. The Task manager shows about 551 megabytes of available physical memory. The TuneUp Utility claims to be able to increase the available resources on a computer. After the optimization process, I expect to see a faster boot time and an increase in available physical memory.
The first thing to do is to download and install the TuneUp Utilities 2008 program.
During the installation one screen came up that may be of interest. The program asks how it should integrate with the Operating system. I chose all of the options available.
After you have opened and registered
TuneUp Utilities 2008, this is the screen you will see first. This is the main interface. Here is where you can accelerate the start up of Windows applications by doing a drive defrag. There is also a Startup Manager to control which programs start at as Windows starts. A Registry Defrag, a Memory Optimizer and System Optimizer are also accessible from this screen.
All of those utilities are available just from the increase performance tab. There are five other utility tabs to explore. When I bought TuneUp Utilities 2008, I did not realize that it had so many functions built into the program. I am going to have fun with this one!
For the purpose of this tutorial, I want to increase performance. The Increase Performance tab looks like a good choice for this task. I clicked on the TuneUp Drive Defrag for starters.
I received a nice welcome telling me why a drive defrag was so important. It is because increasing fragmentation can cause your hard drives to continually slow down, because files are no longer stored on a single unit and need to be searched at different locations. I clicked to continue.
The TuneUp Drive Defrag allowed me to choose which drives to defrag. I'm thinking that the only drive that needs defragging to increase performance would be the C drive so I chose that and clicked next.
I then clicked on the TuneUp Startup Manager from the main interface and it showed the following screen. I could not find anything to uncheck to make the system start up faster. They are all legitimate start up programs as far as I could tell.
The next step is to select the TuneUp System Optimizer to see what it could do for the system. From this screen you can accelerate downloads and Internet surfing, optimize your computer configuration and view some tips for configuring your computer. I chose to accelerate downloads and Internet connections.
The TuneUp Utilities 2008 said that my TCP/IP Internet Protocol and Internet Explorer were not optimal so I Smacked Next to fix this problem.
When it was done optimizing the optimizer told me that I needed to reboot so the changes could take effect. I wanted to make this project a success so I rebooted.
When the computer rebooted, I checked went back to the TuneUp System Optimizer screen and clicked to optimize my computer configuration and then viewed the optimization tips. None of the options seemed to be able to affect the performance of this computer. I proceeded to click the TuneUp Registry Defrag button. The TuneUp Registry Defrag creates a new registry and eliminates all structural mistakes and defects thus optimizing my computer. I clicked next.
The utility then told me that the registry was analyzed and that it could decrease the size by 4%. I wanted an optimized registry so I clicked finish.
Then TuneUp Utilities said it needed to reboot to finish the operation so I smacked the Yes button to reboot and optimize now.
The last utility to run is the TuneUp Memory Optimizer. I just let it AutoOptimize but there are several manual optimizations you could do if you so desired. I wanted to let the TuneUp Utilities 2008 program do what it thought best. The TuneUp Memory Optimizer showed that this computer has 607 Megabytes of available memory. That is quite an improvement from the initial 551 Megabytes that was available before running the TuneUp Utilities 2008 program.
Indeed the Windows Task Manager agrees with the TuneUp Memory Optimizer with about 605 Megabytes of available physical memory. Quite an improvement and I haven't even used all of the utilities that this program is packed with.
The boot time of the computer also improved by 5 seconds. The TuneUp Utilities 2008 accomplished everything that it said it could do. The utility noticeably increased the system performance by freeing up available physical memory by 56 Megabytes and overall optimizing this computer. For that reason the Tune Utilities 2008 optimization program gets an honorable Brontobyte on a scale of Bytes to Brontobytes. Check out our further review of all of the other utility functions of the TuneUp Utilities 2008 PC optimization program.
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