Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #157 in Software
• Brand: PX Software
• Released on: 2007-12-20
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description

Expand the possibilities of your operating system: With TuneUp Utilities 2007, your system will be faster, more comfortable and more secure. All important aspects of system configuration, security, cleanup and maintenance can be accessed through a modern graphical interface

The new version of TuneUp Utilities 2007 contains important new features, general improvements and can now be used for Windows Vista, the newest operating system

TuneUp Utilities is made up of many useful modules that can all be accessed from a common Start Center. This Start Center is divided into five categories to make finding individual modules easier

TuneUp Disk Doctor performs a thorough analysis of your disk drives and their file systems. If errors are found during analysis, they can be automatically repaired to prevent data loss

Get a quick overview of your entire hard disk with a single click. Identify and eliminate unnecessary files and gain valuable free space

Configure all of your important Windows settings to meet your needs, secure your system and expand the functionality of Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2

Installing and working with applications can often cause errors in the Windows registry. With a few clicks, you can easily find and correct these errors

Run regular maintenance functions with a single click - fully automatically, if desired! Configuring the system, making backups and performing maintenance can be easily carried out using the intuitive user interface

Decide for yourself which programs should be run on Windows startup. Find and remove unnecessary items that slow down your system so that your computer will work and start up faster

Enjoy faster surfing and faster Windows operation. Items in your Windows configuration that slow your system down are detected and fixed. Your Windows registry will be defragmented to give you additional speed

Easily restore deleted files. Permanently and securely delete sensitive files with the secure DoD 5220.22-M and Gutmann methods

Give Windows an individual style! Change and expand the interface, replace symbols and even change your Windows Vista, XP logon and start screens. Our download area continually provides new additions to give you a much-needed change of style

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Customer Reviews

Good product, good value, but not perfect
I bought TUP2008 after trialling the 2007 version. From a useability viewpoint I slightly preferred the 2007 version, though to be fair the 2008 version has more tools included. The package seems to be quite good at spotting and fixing problems in the Windows registry, in programs, and in shortcuts. Running the 1-Click cleanup in TUP2008 every day does seem to keep the PC running more smoothly.

For the price requested I think the package represents good value. I guess (inevitably) I compare it against the "old" versions of Norton SystemWorks (before Norton started to charge higher prices for "upgrades" that didn't work as well or even properly), and I still hanker after the way SystemWorks used to get on with the job of cleaning things up without too much fuss.

That said, the core functions in TUP2008 do work effectively. The defrag tool takes a while to run, but the PC does speed up noticeably afterwards. The utility for speeding up or optimising the web connection and/or tuning Windows also seems to make a noticeable difference.

TUP2008 also gives shortcuts to tuning the system which you can access via My Computer. For non-techie people TUP2008's way of doing this, especially as it also offers "roll-back" options if you don't like the end results, may be judged preferable.

There are also tools for altering the look and feel of Windows. Some of these can be a little system-hungry but if you have plenty of RAM they do look quite good.

Overall, I'm very statisfied with the way TUP2008 works, and think it's a comprehensive package for the price.

Excellent set of PC Tools
I was looking for a program like this for a while. I wanted something that just fixed things without other unwanted utilities like back-up and Anti-virus. Its a bit like Norton utilities used to be.
The program is very easy to install and use. Once installed, you can carry out a 1-click maintenance, which can attend to all kind of common problems. There are also quite a few other utilities included for improving performance. Very difficult to go wrong with no annoying activation requirements.
I wish I had saw it here prior to buying it direct from the Tune-up website, as its half the price from Amazon.

Fixes things I didn't know were a problem!

I'm not what you describe as a novice user when it comes to PCs, just a disinterested one. For me, PCs are simply functional products, a tool to use like a saw or a hammer; I expect them to work when I press on and to stop when I press off, and obviously, to do what I want in between these two points!

I don't get a kick out of spending a heap of cash on equipment just so that I can then spend another heap of time learning to fix its faulty functions... in the knowledge my learning will be redundant within a few years because avaricious companies have vigorously built in "planned obsolescence" to keep me keeping them solvent!

As this is my nature, buying new products and learning new short shelf-life packages all over again is pretty tedious, therefore, software like this one is ideally aimed at folk like me.

TuneUp - claims to *Repair *Accelerate *Clean - and on first run, after the hassle-free install, my hopes were pretty high as it highlighted lots of things like orphaned registry keys (whatever they may be) and pointed out obsolete stuff that could be safely deleted, so I trusted the software and pressed the 'clean up' button.

Hey Presto! The next messages came back saying these items had been sorted. Woohoo! I was now ready to enjoy using my newly improved, faster PC... errr, not quite...

If the software hadn't told me it had these fixed problems, I wouldn't have known otherwise; I couldn't spot any difference in performance... (but importantly, it caused no deteriorations ).

I've run this straightforward-to-use software several times now, and it's been useful in getting rid of items that loaded automatically in the task bar that didn't want, so it simplified that task, but that's probably not the reason anyone would buy this product... they would probably buy it because they were looking for tangible benefits and, sadly, I can't say that I've spotted any.

Perhaps I'm better off for this software, perhaps I'm not, I can't really tell. And that's the problem I have with rating it ... it might have done my PC some good, but there's no way I can know for sure. All I can say for sure is it fixed things I wasn't aware were wrong but at least it did so without causing other problems.