TuneUp Utilities 2004 User Manual
TuneUp Utilities 2004 was developed by: Company: TuneUp Software GmbH Address: Donnersbergring 22 64295 Darmstadt Germany Internet: www.tune-up.com Support for this software can be obtained at the following addresses: E-mail: Internet: tu2004@tune-up.com www.tune-up.
Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents .....................................................5 Preface ......................................................................9 Installation..............................................................11 System Requirements ............................................ 11 Starting the Installation......................................... 12 Entering Your User Name and Serial Number........ 13 Selecting the Installation Location..................
Table of Contents Appearance Æ Folder Options........................... 24 Usage Æ Input Options ..................................... 25 Usage Æ Start Menu ......................................... 26 Usage Æ Taskbar............................................... 27 Communication Æ Network.............................. 28 Communication Æ Internet Explorer ................. 29 Communication Æ E-mail Programs.................. 30 Communication Æ Privacy ................................
Table of Contents TuneUp DiskCleaner .............................................. 65 Usage ................................................................ 65 Analysis ............................................................. 66 Clean-up............................................................ 68 Optimize and Improve............................................70 TuneUp MemOptimizer ......................................... 72 Usage ................................................................
Table of Contents Deleting Files..................................................... 97 Deleting a Folder ............................................... 97 Deleting the Contents of the Recycle Bin........... 98 Selecting the Deletion Method.......................... 98 Shredding a File After Deletion.......................... 99 TuneUp Undelete ................................................ 100 Usage .............................................................. 100 Enter Search String..................
Preface Preface 1 Windows XP or one of its predecessors are installed on most computers in use around the world. Windows is an excellent operating system for standard tasks such as working with applications and managing files. But things aren’t so simple when a user wants to customize, optimize or streamline the system – ease of use is quickly forgotten here, and many things cannot be done at all with the tools that come with the operating system. But everything is possible.
Preface explained clearly and can be enabled or disabled with a click of your mouse in many different modules. TuneUp Utilities 2004 takes care of changing the corresponding parameter in the registry or in the boot files. TuneUp Utilities 2004 is not only about making Windows more attractive. It can also be used to optimize or clean up the system with a single mouse click, removing unneeded files from your hard drive and deleting superfluous entries from your registry.
Installation Installation 2 Before you can use TuneUp Utilities 2004 on your computer, you must install it. This copies the program files to your computer so that you can start and use the program any time without inserting the CD. System Requirements Your system must fulfill certain minimum requirements in order to be able to properly install and use TuneUp Utilities 2004. These requirements are not demanding, and should be met by any fairly modern computer.
Installation Starting the Installation Insert the included CD in your CD-ROM drive. The installation should start automatically as soon as Windows recognizes the CD. If nothing happens when you insert the CD, the AutoPlay function has been deactivated for your drive. In this case, open your Explorer and double click the file Setup.exe in the root CD directory to start the installation. Please close all other programs.
Installation You must accept the license agreement to continue. Entering Your User Name and Serial Number On the next screen, you must enter your User Information. Here, the installation program requests your name and the name of your company or organization. These boxes are normally already filled in with the correct information. If this is not the case, please enter the correct information. The Serial number can be found on the front of this manual.
Installation After you have entered all necessary information, click Next to continue. Selecting the Installation Location You’re almost done. Now, you have to specify the folder on your computer in which TuneUp Utilities 2004 should be installed. The default location suggested by the program is C:\Program Files\TuneUp Utilities. You can normally use this folder. But if you wish to install the program in a different folder, click Browse. Start the installation. Then click Next to begin copying the files.
Introduction to TuneUp Utilities Introduction to TuneUp Utilities 3 Starting the Software There are a number of ways to open the TuneUp Utilities 2004 Start Center. The most important are explained below. A new icon is added to your desktop when you install the software. Double click this yellow icon with the name TuneUp Utilities 2004 to start the program directly. You can also start the software through the Windows Start menu. To do this, open the Start menu and then the folder All Programs.
Introduction to TuneUp Utilities The five TuneUp Utilities 2004 categories can be seen on the left side of the window. Click one of these names to open the corresponding category. The modules of the selected category are shown on the right side of the window in the form of blue buttons. You can start a module by clicking the corresponding button. When you have finished working with a module, simply click the red X in the upper right corner to close it and return to the Start Center.
Introduction to TuneUp Utilities Æ Page 18 Clean up and Repair A large number of unneeded files and system errors gather as you work with your computer every day. This category provides you with the tools you need to rid yourself of this unneeded ballast. One module cleans up the Windows registry and corrects errors, while another deletes unneeded files from your hard drive to free up space. This can noticeably speed up your system.
Customize and Analyze Customize and Analyze 4 The modules in the Customize and Analyze category help you adapt the operating system to your needs. You can tweak Windows to your heart’s desire here. TuneUp SystemControl is the most extensive module in TuneUp Utilities 2004 and lets you specify exactly how your Windows system should look and work. You will be surprised at how many options you can configure with TuneUp SystemControl. TuneUp WinStyler takes care of the appearance of Windows.
Customize and Analyze icons for your drives, folders and Favorites. Under Windows XP, you can even change the appearance of the logon screen and install new visual styles that change the way the Windows interface looks entirely. TuneUp StartUp Manager lets you finally put a stop to all of the irritating programs that load themselves automatically when you start Windows, even if you don’t want them to.
Customize and Analyze TuneUp SystemControl TuneUp SystemControl is a kind of control center that allows you to quickly and easily adapt your Windows operating environment to your needs and tastes. Regardless of whether you want to change the visual effects, the desktop, the way users log on, the security of your system or memory management, TuneUp SystemControl lets you configure and optimize any setting, down to the smallest detail.
Customize and Analyze As soon as the program opens, the various categories that you can configure are shown on the left side of the window. These categories are Appearance, Usage, Communication, Administration and Wizards. Each of these categories contains multiple subcategories. As soon as you click one of the subcategories with your left mouse button, the available options are shown on the right side of the window.
Customize and Analyze Animations You can specify which animations should be displayed when you work with windows and lists here. Click Best Performance to disable all options that are only eye candy. Click Restore Defaults to restore the original Windows settings. Menu Appearance You can configure the appearance and behavior of context menus and standard application menus here. Under Animation, you can specify whether menus should fade out when they close.
Customize and Analyze New Menu You can specify which file types are displayed in the New menu in the context menu for the desktop, the Explorer and the Save dialog here. Remove unneeded entries from the menu and add your own! If you wish to remove a file type from the menu, click the check box in front of the desired file type to remove the check mark. Click Remove to delete the file type from the list entirely. New file types can be added by clicking Add.
Customize and Analyze and photos should automatically be opened with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer here. Appearance Æ Folder Options View You can specify how folder Windows and the objects contained in them should appear here. Navigation Here, you can configure the settings for navigating in folder windows and special sorting settings for numbered files. Thumbnails You can configure the settings used for the automatic display of preview images for folders containing pictures here.
Customize and Analyze Do you want to hide a drive from prying eyes? No problem, a click on My Computer makes it possible. Usage Æ Input Options Mouse Functions You can configure the functions of your mouse here by swapping the mouse buttons and changing the behavior of the scroll wheel. Mouse Sensitivity You can configure how sensitively your mouse should react to click and drag actions here.
Customize and Analyze Keyboard You can configure how Windows is controlled with the keyboard here, for example by configuring the behavior of the Windows key. Usage Æ Start Menu Behavior You can configure how the Start menu reacts to specific mouse actions here. You can navigate through menus much more quickly if you reduce the opening delay here. Submenus Here, you can specify how many of your most recently used documents and files should be shown in the Start menu, among other things.
Customize and Analyze Programs Here, you can configure the Start menu settings that affect programs. One option is, for example, to customize the list of Frequently Used Programs. Advanced You can configure the display of your user name in the Start menu and call up other TuneUp Utilities modules that are relevant for the Start menu here. Usage Æ Taskbar Flashing Buttons This function prevents other windows from “barging” their way to the front while you are working on a document in a text editing program.
Customize and Analyze Minimized Windows Sometimes when a window is minimized, all that can be seen is the title bar that is moved to the lower edge of the screen, just above the taskbar, automatically. The behavior of windows that are minimized in this manner can be configured in accordance with your wishes in this tab. Advanced You can customize general display and behavior options for the taskbar and the notification area here.
Customize and Analyze Communication Æ Internet Explorer Explorer Bars Here, you can configure the behavior of the bars in Internet Explorer. For example, you can specify that the search bar always searches using Google. View Here, you can customize Internet Explorer to suit your tastes. You can for example change the window title bar and specify a background picture for the toolbars. Favorites You can hide unwanted Favorites folders and their contents here.
Customize and Analyze Surf the Internet faster with this option! Communication Æ E-mail Programs Outlook Express Specify what should happen when you start Outlook Express, what text should be displayed in the window title bar and which executable attachments should be blocked. Office Outlook Appearance You can configure options that affect the appearance of Office Outlook here. Office Outlook Security Office Outlook blocks potentially dangerous files in e-mail attachments for security reasons.
Customize and Analyze Cover Tracks Here, you can configure settings to eliminate the traces of your work with documents and of web sites you’ve visit. Cover the tracks you leave while working on your computer and surfing the Internet here. Activate Delete history lists at logoff to have the lists of most recently used documents and programs emptied when you shut your system down. This prevents other persons from using these lists to find out what you have done on the computer.
Customize and Analyze Advanced Here, you can configure Windows XP and Microsoft Office Error Reporting and go directly to other privacy options. Prevent your product ID from being transmitted to Microsoft! Administration Æ User Logon General Here, you can switch between the Welcome screen and classic logon prompt, and can customize both by clicking Customize.
Customize and Analyze Tour Here, you can activate or deactivate the Windows tour, which offers an introduction to basic Windows functions and features. When this is activated, it will be shown each time you log on. Administration Æ Drives General A number of settings that affect your drives can be configured here. You can enable UDMA66 support to accelerate access to your drives, for example. Disk Space Windows displays a warning automatically when too little free space is available on a drive.
Customize and Analyze Administration Æ Memory and Cache Memory Management Here, you can configure settings that affect the management of your physical and virtual memory. If you wish, you can have the entire paging file overwritten with zeros when you shut your computer down to protect your privacy. Memory Usage Here, you can adapt how Windows makes use of your physical memory to meet your needs.
Customize and Analyze Programs What should Windows do when individual programs freeze, or when they cannot be closed? Under Idle time without feedback, you can specify how long the system will wait for a program to respond in milliseconds. Once this time has passed without a reaction, it will be forced to close by the Task Manager or when the computer is shutting down. What should Windows do with crashed programs? You decide.
Customize and Analyze Administration Æ System General Here, you can change the name of the company and name of the person to whom Windows is registered. You can also specify the user and company name that are entered automatically when you install programs using the Windows Installer. Common Dialogs Here, you can configure the appearance of the common dialogs for opening and saving files. Search Here, you can configure settings that affect the appearance and behavior of the Windows search function.
Customize and Analyze Select the problems you wish to correct. The wizard then lists common Windows problems. Select the check boxes in front of the problems that you are experiencing with your system. Then click Next to continue. The wizard shows a list of all problems that you selected. Click Next to begin repairing your system. After all problems are successfully corrected, you can close the wizard by clicking Finish.
Customize and Analyze The wizard welcomes you. The wizard starts with a short introduction. Click Next to continue. The wizard then presents a list of settings that can be copied. Select the desired settings and click Next again. You can now specify to where you wish to copy the selected settings. One possibility is the logon screen (depending on the settings you selected). If more than one user has been set up on your computer, all users are also shown.
Customize and Analyze TuneUp StartUp Manager Many applications start automatically together with Windows without asking for your permission. There is often a good reason for this, for example to provide you with important functions and services such as your virus scanner, an ISDN call monitor or a text module administration system. In addition to these sensible applications, there are often also useless or even dangerous applications that also start together with your system.
Customize and Analyze you have never heard of the company or the product, then the entry is probably not needed. An overview of all automatic start commands. Deactivating and deleting entries When you start the program the first time, all startup entries have a check mark in front of them and are active. Click the check box in front of an entry to clear it, and the program will no longer be started the next time you start Windows.
Customize and Analyze Adding a new startup entry If you wish to add a program to one of the startup folders yourself, select the desired folder in the list and then click Add. Enter the name of the desired application in the dialog and enter the directory path of the program file in the Target box. You can use the Find button to help you find the file.
Customize and Analyze TuneUp System Information TuneUp System Information asks the computer the question of all questions: what about the hardware? The module takes a deep look inside your computer and gathers an extensive range of facts and information that can be useful when you want to upgrade your system, or when a technician asks you if specific components are installed in your system. Usage The information on your computer is broken down into nine sections, each with its own tab.
Customize and Analyze time graphs show the current processor usage, physical memory status and how much of your paging file is currently being used. The performance tab with real-time graphs. Drives This section provides you with complete hardware information for each drive in your computer, and shows how much space is used and available on each. I/O Devices All important ports, installed printers and audio devices are shown here.
Customize and Analyze System Devices Information is shown here for your processor and BIOS. Click Processor details to view detailed information on the features of your processor. Use the context-sensitive help ! If you are not sure what the information or a function under one of the areas in TuneUp System Information means, you can use the so-called context-sensitive help to view a brief description.
Customize and Analyze TuneUp WinStyler Windows would not be very useful without its graphical user interface. How important an attractive interface is can be seen on the basis of Windows XP and how the entire system feels at once fresher and more modern. But just as in fashion, it’s easy to get tired of the new design, not to mention the people who have always been bothered by all of the “eye candy” in the interface.
Customize and Analyze The customization options in TuneUp WinStyler are divided into six categories, each of which can be selected directly in the navigation bar at the left. All functions can be accessed quickly from the main window. System Elements In this category, you can replace typical Windows icons with icons with a common theme. You can also change the name of many elements, such as the Recycle Bin, My Computer and My Network Places.
Customize and Analyze TuneUp WinStyler lets you change the icons and names of many elements. How to change an icon Click Replace icon to open a dialog in which you can choose a new icon for the selected item. The module always shows the icon library in which the current icon for the item is contained. This is normally the library shell32.dll, which is included with Windows. If you have an icon library of your own, you can view its contents by clicking Browse. The file shell32.
Customize and Analyze Important: All of the changes that you make to system items are not applied immediately. The program records your changes for the individual items, and indicates that a change has been saved by adding a small red star next to the respective entry in the list. Your changes are not applied until you click Apply in the lower right corner of the window.
Customize and Analyze Managing and Installing Icon Packages Click Icon Packages to open a new window where you can install and manage icon packages. Practical: icon packages let you change all icons at once. A new window opens in which you can see all available icon packages. Select the desired package in the list and click Install to have the new icons shown in the main window. You can also add new icon packages to the list by clicking Add at the top of the list.
Customize and Analyze Step Description 1.) Information on the author Here, you can add your name, e-mail address and Internet address to the icon package. 2.) Package name and description Enter a descriptive package name here. If you wish, you can also enter additional information on the package in the Description box. 3.) Optimizing the size of the package Use the options in this step to make sure that your package is not too large so that it can be sent via email without problems. 4.
Customize and Analyze Here, you can assign a cool icon to the drive where all of your games are installed, and an icon with a serious appearance to the drive where your office applications are installed, for example. You can do the same with folders. A few carefully chosen icons can make it much easier to find your way around drives that contain a great deal of data. Start menu folders You can also use TuneUp WinStyler to assign an individual, descriptive icon to each folder in the Start menu.
Customize and Analyze size and the icon spacing. Please note that changing the color depth and icon size here may affect the display of icons elsewhere as well. A preview of your changes can be seen at all times in the left pane. Under Windows XP, you cannot manipulate the maximum color depth of icons, as this is always 32 bit (the highest value). If you use a different operating system, you can increase this value here. The default size for desktop icons is 32 x 32 pixels.
Customize and Analyze your changes are not applied, or when Windows starts mixing up your icons altogether? In this case, click Repair in the navigation bar and then click Reload Icons. And the display errors will disappear. The fix for persistent problems If reloading the icons doesn’t help, there may be a serious problem in your icon cache. The icon cache is a file in which Windows stores all of the icons that it has ever displayed so that they can be shown more quickly in the future.
Customize and Analyze With TuneUp WinStyler, you can completely change the appearance of the logon screen. Click Logon screen in the navigation bar to go to this area. As soon as it is started, the module lists all available logon screens. When you use the module for the first time, you will only see the standard Windows screen. You can add additional logon screens by clicking Add at the top of the list.
Customize and Analyze any time. To do this, click Restore Defaults. The default screen is then shown in the list automatically. Click Install Logon Screen to save the change. Visual Style The new visual style of Windows XP makes it possible to lend a new look to all modern applications. Click Visual Style in the navigation bar to customize your visual style. When you select a visual style in the list, a preview and additional information are shown on the right.
Customize and Analyze Adding a style from a file You can also use the option Install Visual Style From File if you have other visual styles on your computer. This way, you can use visual styles that you received on CD, for example. For both options for adding new visual styles, it does not matter in which format the styles are. TuneUp WinStyler recognizes nearly all standard formats and can install them without problems.
Clean up and Repair Clean up and Repair 5 The modules in the Clean up and Repair category streamline your system by removing unneeded ballast and correcting problems in your configuration. Free your system of unneeded ballast! Every program you install writes entries in your registry – entries that are often not completely removed when you remove the program. With time, your registry becomes bloated and takes up more and more space on your hard drive.
Clean up and Repair RegistryCleaner makes sure that there are no unneeded entries in your registry to slow your system down. The amount of unneeded data on your hard drive also increases with time. This includes temporary files, but also unneeded backups that are created by different programs and that are not deleted. TuneUp DiskCleaner helps you find these files and delete them.
Clean up and Repair TuneUp RegistryCleaner You can use TuneUp RegistryCleaner to quickly and thoroughly remove the unneeded data left over when you install and remove programs and when you work with your computer every day. Cleaning up your registry database frees your system of unneeded ballast so that it can work better and more quickly. After the module analyzes your system for problems, you can individually view each of the problems found and call up a detailed description.
Clean up and Repair The option Complete scan analyzes the entire registry and all system files. If you select Choose tests, you can specify yourself which categories should be analyzed by TuneUp RegistryCleaner. It is best select Complete scan, and then click Next. TuneUp RegistryCleaner will now analyze your system. The individual sections of the registry that will be analyzed can be seen in the program window. A yellow arrow in front of an entry means that that section is being analyzed.
Clean up and Repair The Main Window The main TuneUp RegistryCleaner window is divided into two sections. The left side of the window contains a list of Categories, and the contents on the right side of the screen change depending on the category selected on the left. The analysis has found a large number of problems – correcting them will bring noticeable benefits. The category Summary is selected by default.
Clean up and Repair Category Description File types Some file types refer to programs that are no longer available on your system. Shared files The registry contains references to files that were used by multiple applications that no longer exist on this system. Help files The registry contains entries for help files that are no longer available on the system. Fonts References were found to fonts that are no longer available on the system.
Clean up and Repair A detailed description is available for each problem, a single mouse click is all you need. TuneUp RegistryCleaner is designed to correct all problems automatically. This is why the check box in front of each problem is selected. If you do not wish to have an individual problem corrected, click the check box to clear it. The module will then ignore this problem when cleaning up your system.
Clean up and Repair Here, you can watch while the module cleans up your system. Once the module is finished, a message is displayed to tell you that all problems have been corrected. Chain reactions in the registry: the Check Again button Sometimes, the button Check Again is displayed, and the wizard recommends that you analyze your system again. This is always the case when the clean-up may have made additional entries invalid.
Clean up and Repair TuneUp DiskCleaner TuneUp DiskCleaner removes unneeded files from your hard drive and frees up disk space. All drives are scanned for unneeded files, which are then displayed according to category. If you wish, you can individually specify which files should be deleted. If you are not sure whether you should really delete the files found by the module, you can also back them up in compressed form with TuneUp RescueCenter before deleting them.
Clean up and Repair When all drives have been analyzed, the program displays the message “Analysis completed”. You can then click Next to view a list of all found files. Analysis TuneUp DiskCleaner now shows the results of the search. You can recover disk space here. The right side of the window contains a table that indicates the number of files found in each category, such as zero-byte files.
Clean up and Repair Don’t take any risks! Category Description Zero-byte files These files contain no data. Saved lost clusters Repair programs such as Chkdsk scan your drives for lost clusters and save them. These backups are rarely used. Internet cache All pictures, texts and animations that you view in Internet Explorer while surfing the Internet are saved in the cache. If you visit a website again, the texts and images can be loaded from the cache more quickly than from the Internet.
Clean up and Repair Backup categories with RescueCenter You also have a second option. Click a category with your mouse. Details on the selected category are then shown on the left side of the screen. Here, you can select Backup with RescueCenter to be 100% safe. All deleted files are backed up automatically by TuneUp RescueCenter in compressed form so that you can restore them if need be.
Clean up and Repair Finished! All unneeded files have been deleted. When the files have been deleted, click Finish to close the module.
Optimize and Improve Optimize and Improve 6 The modules in the Optimize and Improve category speed up your system. You will find everything you need to speed up your system here. Many of the default Windows settings actually slow the system down. Experienced users know this and know where they have to tinker to speed things up. With the TuneUp Utilities modules in this category, a few mouse clicks suffice to optimize your system for maximum performance – and you don’t have to become a Windows guru.
Optimize and Improve One of the most important modules in this category is TuneUp System Optimizer. This module analyzes your system for settings that could be slowing you down, corrects them with a single mouse click and provides you with valuable tips for configuring your hardware and software. Wizards help you adapt the configuration of your system to your needs in a few steps.
Optimize and Improve TuneUp MemOptimizer TuneUp MemOptimizer monitors your system in the background and frees up memory whenever needed to increase the performance of your computer. The use of TuneUp MemOptimizer is beneficial on any system with up to 512 MB RAM. If the available physical memory gets too low, TuneUp MemOptimizer causes the system to swap old data to the paging file to free up memory for your applications.
Optimize and Improve Beneath the graph, you will find a small box that informs you whether AutoOptimize is activated. This TuneUp MemOptimizer function monitors your memory and can optimize memory usage automatically when the free physical memory falls below a specific amount. Configuring AutoOptimize Configuring automatic optimization Calling up the Settings Dialog If you wish to change the automatic memory optimization settings for TuneUp MemOptimizer, go to Overview and click Change settings.
Optimize and Improve How to cause the module to optimize more frequently If you find the default setting too conservative, you can select Use manual settings to specify the desired processor load in percent up to which the module can optimize your memory usage. The higher this limit, the more aggressively TuneUp MemOptimizer will optimize your system. Click OK to activate your settings. If you wish to restore the module to the recommended settings, click Recommended.
Optimize and Improve Program Options Under Program Options, you can select Load automatically on Windows startup so that TuneUp MemOptimizer can ensure optimum performance as soon as Windows starts. Hiding TuneUp MemOptimizer Select Show icon in the notification area to have an icon that shows your current memory usage status in the notification area next to the clock. If you do not select this option, TuneUp MemOptimizer will continue to work in the background, but will be invisible.
Optimize and Improve TuneUp RegistryDefrag Every new program and every new hardware component enters itself in the registry, creating keys and values. Over time, the central Windows database gets larger and larger. The larger the registry becomes, the longer the system needs to find specific information, and this makes Windows slower.
Optimize and Improve Before the analysis starts, you will be informed that all other applications must be closed. Please follow these instructions and close all other applications before you continue. Registry analysis After you confirm this message, TuneUp RegistryDefrag grays the screen and shows a wait dialog to indicate that you cannot use the computer. During the analysis, a small clock blinks in the upper left corner of the window to show that the software is working.
Optimize and Improve TuneUp System Optimizer TuneUp System Optimizer helps you to find and correct misconfigured settings and settings that are slowing your system down. As soon as you start TuneUp System Optimizer, the module displays a welcome screen that tells you that you have come to the right place if you want to perform system maintenance. The module also tells you that you can undo your changes at any time with TuneUp RescueCenter.
Optimize and Improve 1-Click Maintenance does justice to its name. As soon as you start the program, it scans your registry and your hard drive automatically for unneeded entries and files. A status window is displayed during the scan to keep you informed of its progress. And when the scan is finished, all you have to do is click Correct Problems to rid yourself of the unneeded ballast. 1-Click Maintenance at work.
Optimize and Improve The advisor helps you to eliminate weaknesses in your system. In a few seconds, the results of the analysis are shown in the window. The individual problems are broken down into categories such as Display, System and Security. A short text describes the problem, for example: “A high screen resolution can slow the system down”.
Optimize and Improve You may be able to optimize your Internet settings. Under Wizards, select Internet Optimization. A wizard will then guide you through the necessary procedure step for step. In the first screen, you must tell the wizard what kind of Internet connection you have. Select the connection that best matches yours from the list, for example a modem, ISDN or DSL connection. Then click Next to go to the next step.
Optimize and Improve System Optimization Use this wizard to adapt Windows to your specific needs. Here, you can adapt the most important settings to your needs. As soon as the wizard is opened, a message is displayed to tell you that the program needs some information about your system. Select the options that best describe how you use your PC from the lists.
Optimize and Improve configuration. Note the message Restart required. Windows may have to be restarted for all of the changes in the registry to take effect. Click Finish to close the wizard.
Administer and Control Administer and Control 7 The TuneUp Utilities 2004 category Administer and Control offers three modules that help you get more control over your operating system. You can use TuneUp Process Manager to view and, if needed, terminate all currently running applications and processes. You can also call up an overview of which files are currently being used by which programs, and how much of your system memory and processor are being used.
Administer and Control and easily find keys and values, and to make any necessary changes. TuneUp Uninstall Manager shows you all programs that are currently installed on your system and lets you remove unneeded programs.
Administer and Control TuneUp Process Manager With TuneUp Process Manager, you have control over the applications that are running on your system at all times and can monitor your system activity. You can find out how much memory is being used by any program, view details on running processes and terminate unwanted processes with a single mouse click. The module also offers live graphs for processor and memory usage and provides valuable information on what your computer is doing at any given time.
Administer and Control a somewhat drastic measure, but is sometimes necessary to close a program that has hung, or if you want to stop an unwanted dialer. Open Files The Open Files tab provides an overview of all files and folders that are currently open on the computer, including information on the file type and location and which process is currently using the file. The (not so) wondrous list of files You should not be surprised when some files are shown in the list more than once.
Administer and Control what process is using the file and terminate it. This will let you delete the file. Performance The Performance tab provides detailed information on the current status of your system. You can view the current processor usage in percent, and a graph of the processor usage for the last several seconds. A similar graph shows memory usage for the last several seconds. You can also view the current usage of the paging file and the physical memory on kilobytes.
Administer and Control Click File Æ Exit Windows to shut down or restart the computer so that new settings can take effect. If you have selected a process in the list, you can click Edit Æ Set Process Priority to specify how much processing power Windows should assign to this process.
Administer and Control TuneUp Registry Editor The Windows registry is nothing more than a large central database. Every hardware component and program that is installed makes entries in this database. With time, the registry gets increasingly larger and more chaotic. The advantages of TuneUp Registry Editor True experts who are looking for a suitable tool to delve deep into the Windows system and to adapt their configuration manually should use TuneUp Registry Editor.
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Administer and Control TuneUp Uninstall Manager Every program that you install under Windows adds an uninstall entry to the system registry. This entry makes sure that the program is removed completely from your computer when you don’t need it anymore. TuneUp Utilities 2004 lets you clean up your computer and remove unwanted programs from your hard drive. All you have to do is open TuneUp Uninstall Manager.
Administer and Control associated desktop icons, Start menu entries and keys in the registry. Follow the instructions in the program to finish the procedure. If there is a red X in front of a program instead of a green check mark, this means that no uninstall program was found for the software. In this case, you can delete the entry from the registry by clicking Remove entry, as it has no function.
File recovery and Destruction File recovery and Destruction 8 The modules in the File recovery and Destruction category help to protect your data and your privacy. These two TuneUp Utilities 2004 modules are ready to help you protect and securely delete your important data at any time. Whenever you want to dispose of sensitive documents in the office, you normally use a shredder instead of simply throwing them away.
File recovery and Destruction The module TuneUp Shredder lets you safely remove sensitive data from your computer. And thanks to the secure deletion method of the US Department of Defense, you can delete your data so effectively and securely that even the cleverest of data thieves can’t recover it. TuneUp Undelete does exactly the opposite. You can use this module to recover accidentally deleted files and folders, even if they are no longer in the Recycle Bin.
File recovery and Destruction TuneUp Shredder When you delete a file in Windows, it will probably be moved to the Recycle Bin. Anybody can get a file back out of the Recycle Bin. For this reason, many users empty the Recycle Bin regularly, or delete their files without moving them to the Recycle Bin. But you should know that Windows does not really destroy a file when it deletes it, its entire contents are still located on the hard drive.
File recovery and Destruction Recycle Bin: Select this option when you want to shred the contents of your Recycle Bin. You can review the contents of the Recycle Bin before deletion in the next window. Select the desired option and click Next to continue. Deleting Files Drag and drop the files you wish to delete from the Explorer into the Files list, or click Add to select the files in a file browser.
File recovery and Destruction Click Next to confirm your selection. Deleting the Contents of the Recycle Bin In this step, you can view the contents of your Recycle Bin by clicking Show Contents. All files and folders in the Recycle Bin will be deleted. When Delete allocated free space is selected, the Shredder will also delete the free space that has been assigned to the files in Recycle Bin. Click Next to confirm your selection.
File recovery and Destruction How many times should the deletion operation be repeated? Under Repeat the delete operation, specify how many times you wish to have the selected deletion method repeated. The security of the deletion can be enhanced further by increasing the number of repetitions, but the time required will also increase. Click Next to start deletion. Please wait until the program is completed.
File recovery and Destruction TuneUp Undelete It has happened to everyone. You delete a file accidentally, and you can’t find it in the Recycle Bin. And you don’t have a backup, or the one you have is months old. This means that it’s time for some serious tools. With TuneUp Undelete, it is usually possible to recover deleted files and save your valuable work. Usage When you start TuneUp Undelete, a wizard is opened that takes you through the recovery process step by step.
File recovery and Destruction Enter Search String On the next screen, the module allows you to narrow the search to make sure that you don’t oversee your file in an endless list of deleted files. It is practical to enter one or more words to search for, but this is not required. You can enter the name of the file in the Search criteria box. You do not have to enter the complete file name here, a single word is usually enough to narrow your search.
File recovery and Destruction Two additional options for narrowing your search down There are two additional options that also let you narrow your search further: Option Description Don’t show 0-byte files All files that contain no data whatsoever will be ignored. Show only files in good condition Makes sure that only files with a good chance of being recovered are shown. Click Next to begin searching for deleted files.
File recovery and Destruction The table shows the file name, the original location, the file type and the condition of the file. Don’t worry if the first letter of the file name is missing for the files on FAT drives, Windows always deletes the first letter when deleting files on drives with this file system. Recovering Files If you find a file that you wish to recover in the list, click it to select it. You can select more than one file by holding the Ctrl key while clicking.
File recovery and Destruction Deleting Sensitive Files the Right Way Make sure that even Undelete can’t recover your sensitive files Use TuneUp Shredder to permanently delete confidential files. This module ensures that files that it deletes cannot be recovered with TuneUp Undelete, by the military or professional data recovery companies. If you have already deleted a file by “normal” means, the only way to reliably destroy it is by using a special tool that overwrites all free space on your drives.
Global Modules Global Modules 9 Two general TuneUp Utilities modules can be found in the grey area beneath the title bar of the Start Center, TuneUp RescueCenter and TuneUp UpdateWizard. TuneUp RescueCenter monitors all of the changes you make to your system with the other TuneUp Utilities modules and can undo these changes at any time if you wish. TuneUp UpdateWizard saves you the trouble of searching for and installing updates for TuneUp Utilities 2004.
Global Modules TuneUp RescueCenter TuneUp Utilities provides you with a large selection of tools that you can use to optimize and customize your operating system. It can happen that you fiddle with a setting or two that you should have better left alone when trying to improve your system. Or that you delete an entry in TuneUp Registry Editor that you need after all.
Global Modules changes is selected under Tasks in the left side of the window. These backups can be restored. TuneUp Utilities opens a chronological list of all backups on the right side of the window, broken down according to categories. Regardless of whether you cleaned the registry or your hard drive with TuneUp Utilities, all changes can be found here. Next to each entry, you will find the date and time of the action, as well as the disk space used by the deleted objects or entries.
Global Modules Click Delete to remove a backup from the list permanently, but only if you are certain that you will not need the backup in the future. Configuring RescueCenter protection Click Options in the blue bar to open the configuration window for the RescueCenter. Here, you can specify how long backups should be kept and when they should be deleted automatically to free up disk space. You can also deactivate RescueCenter protection for individual TuneUp modules.
Global Modules A large number of restore points can normally be found here. Saving your own restore points If you wish to create a restore point of your own so that you can return to a specific configuration at any time, click Create restore point and enter a description in the dialog that appears.
Global Modules TuneUp UpdateWizard TuneUp Utilities are being continually enhanced and improved. New functions are added to modules, errors are corrected, and some tools need to be continually adapted to the advances in technology. Update your product regularly TuneUp UpdateWizard automatically checks for a new version of TuneUp Utilities by contacting the TuneUp server over the Internet. And if an update is available, these files are very small and can be downloaded quickly.
Global Modules Select your connection. Normally, the program detects the correct connection automatically. But if this is not the case, select a connection from the list. If your Internet connection cannot be found in the list at all, you have two possibilities. If you are always online (for example over a network), select Permanent connection to the Internet. If you always establish a connection to the Internet yourself, select Start connection manually.
Global Modules Click Next to install the updates in the list. When all updates have been installed, click Finish to close the wizard.
Glossary Glossary 10 Access permissions The assignment of specific rights to users so that they can access shared data and resources in the network. Access permissions are managed by the network software. Administrator Designation for the person responsible for managing a network. He has unlimited access permissions and is responsible for maintaining and managing all of the hardware and software in the network. Anti-aliasing Also called font smoothing.
Glossary BIOS Acronym for “Basic Input Output System”. Bit Short for “binary digit”, the smallest unit of information in the binary number system. Corresponds to one storage cell. A bit can either have the value 0 or 1. Eight bits are equal to one byte. The terms “bit” and “binary digit” were coined in 1946 at Princeton University by the mathematician John Tukey, one of the most important staticians of the 20th century. Tukey had a particular talent for coining terms, he also created the term “software”.
Glossary ClearType ClearType, introduced by Bill Gates at Comdex in Las Vegas in autumn 1998, is designed to dramatically improve the readability of text on all screen types, including simple screens. ClearType does not only use whole pixels for display, but also uses invisible subpixels when calculating the display of the screen contents. This technology can be used on desktop computers and PDAs (personal digital assistants) or electronic books.
Glossary CPU Short for “central processing unit”. Cursor/pointer A special element on the screen, called the cursor when working in text and the pointer when working with a mouse. This display element can be moved with the mouse, the arrow keys or a digitizer and is used to enter text or graphical information at a specific point or location. Data medium A medium for the permanent storage of data. These include diskettes, CD/DVD-ROMs, hard disks, magnetic tape and other devices.
Glossary DLL Acronym for “dynamic link library”. DLLs are special program routines that are not loaded from the program library until they are actually needed. This reduces the amount of main memory occupied by a program.
Glossary File format A specification of how texts, images, etc. are stored in a file. Depending on the file format, images can also be stored with alpha channels. Some formats also compress image or music contents. File name The complete designation of a file, consisting of the name of the file itself and a file extension after the dot. File type association A logical connection in Windows between a file extension and an application.
Glossary The external frequency is the speed of the front side bus (FSB) and specifies the speed at which the processor can access the main memory (and the L2 cache, if present). The speed of the FSB is governed by the motherboard. Hot key A special key combination that immediately starts a predefined command or process. Icon Icons are pictograms that serve as visual labels in graphical user interfaces and are used, for example, to open programs. ISDN Short for “Integrated Services Digital Network”.
Glossary Operating system Operating systems are currently the most important piece of software on a computer. No computer can run without an operating system. The operating system processes the data entered by the user, manages the saved files and controls all connected devices such as printers and hard disks. At the same time, it serves as the basis for applications such as word and image processing programs, which could not run without the framework of the operating system.
Glossary located in the folder “Windows”. This folder is located on the drive that is labeled with the letter “C”. The path of this file would be “C:\Windows\logo.bmp”. Performance In computers, performance expresses the speed of the system in executing commands or programs. Peripherals This term refers to all devices that are connected to a computer, such as screens, keyboards, disk drives, printers, etc.
Glossary Refresh rate This indicates how many times per second the screen picture is recreated. The higher this rate, the less the screen flickers. As the human eye perceives relatively slowly, and due to a degree of ghosting, the constant recreation of the screen picture is no longer perceptible above a certain rate, and is perceived as a still image.
Glossary appearance of the contents of the screen and the greater the area on the screen (“screen real estate”). In principle, the resolution of a graphics card depends on the amount of graphics memory, the refresh rate and the color depth. The higher the resolution, the lower the refresh rate and color depth. Graphics cards with 2 MB of memory can only display 256 colors at 1280 x 1024 pixels, while 16.7 million colors can be displayed at a resolution of 800 x 600.
Glossary Task A step or program executed by the computer. Task Manager A system program in Windows that can be used to view the running programs, and to force them to quit if need be. The Task Manager is accessed by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del in many Windows versions. Taskbar Part of the Windows user interface from which the most important program functions can be activated and where buttons can be found for all active applications.
Glossary This is a mechanism to effectively increase the amount of available main memory.
Index Index 1-Click Maintenance ......................... 78 ActiveX and COM ............................. 61 animations ....................................... 22 Animations and Effects .................... 21 appearance button appearance ...................... 27 desktop icons .............................. 51 menus.......................................... 22 application paths.............................. 61 AutoOptimize ................................... 73 categories................................
Index glossary .......................................... 113 help files............................................62 history lists ........................................62 icon packages ............................ 48, 49 icons discard changes............................48 replace .........................................51 replace .........................................47 reset .............................................48 input options ....................................25 installation ..........
Index tour .................................................. 33 TuneUp DiskCleaner ......................... 65 TuneUp MemOptimizer .................... 72 TuneUp Process Manager ................. 86 TuneUp Registry Editor..................... 90 TuneUp RegistryCleaner ................... 59 TuneUp RegistryDefrag..................... 76 TuneUp RescueCenter..................... 106 TuneUp Shredder ............................. 96 TuneUp StartUp Manager ................ 39 TuneUp System Information..........
