You’ve probably heard about this optimization tip a thousand times—disabling the Windows Search index will significantly increase PC performance and reduce hard disk activity. Is this actually true? Or is it not worth giving up this nice Windows 7 feature? How does Windows Search work? Right after you install Windows or turn your PC on [...]
Styling your desktop is pretty easy if you have Windows 7. In this blog post, we’ve compiled 25 of our favorite themes—to help give your desktop a sleeker, sexier look. Beautiful backgrounds, nice colors, and amazing sounds—all in one package—what more could you want? What’s a “theme”? There’s a lot of confusion about the term [...]
Have you ever wondered what defragmentation really is? How an optimizer works or what lies behind a “Windows error code”? Tired of searching the Web for the right answer? With the TuneUp Glossary (available in English, German and French), you have a handy PC encyclopedia right at your fingertips. The TuneUp Glossary provides easy-to-understand explanations [...]
Note: We’ve written about this mode before—however, our guide was specifically written for Windows 7 users only. Now, there’s a safe way to get God Mode on Vista, which, by the way, works just as fine on Windows 7. So as a “7″ user, you could go with either method! Tired of clicking through dozens [...]
It’s the Achilles’ heel of older and slower machines—you try to watch HDTV on your PC or netbook, and it stutters. You try to play a Blu-ray disc, and it won’t start. You try to play a 720p or 1080p video file, and the image immediately starts to tear and lag. In this post, we [...]
What is the worst-case scenario when it comes to your PC? Windows gives you the blue screen, a cryptic error message or a completely black screen during the boot-up process! Beginners don’t even know where to begin; it even baffles IT professionals. Luckily, there are some very effective ways to repair Windows using Microsoft’s own [...]
