Have you ever wondered how much performance your antivirus solution costs? We try to get a definitive answer to this question in a multi-part article series. Find out all about the technical background, our test criteria, and our perspective on this comparison series in part 1. We’ll kick off this series with Microsoft Security Essentials [...]
“There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” If Windows users want to be secure, they need to pay for this privilege—money in some cases, performance in all of them. Security programs have been known to slow down any Windows PC—leaving users to struggle with a noticeably longer boot-up process, a less responsive workflow, slower [...]
“XP Mode” is key to running older and incompatible programs under Windows 7. A couple of weeks ago, we guided you through the necessary steps for setting up XP Mode. Now it’s time to dive deeper into this virtual Windows XP, troubleshoot your performance issues and better integrate your “old” programs into Windows 7. Here [...]
One of the most powerful new features in Windows 7 (and Vista), Task Scheduler, is hidden deep inside the operating system and rarely used. It allows PC users to automate a number of actions, such as launching a cleaning tool on a weekly basis, solving a problem the moment it occurs, or simply displaying reminder [...]
On October 26, Microsoft made the Release Candidate (RC) of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 available. At the same time, the company confirmed that the final version of SP1 will be out in Q1 2011. If you want to try the RC out, we’ve got all of the details! [...]
“XP Mode” is part of Windows 7 and is designed to make the transition from XP as smooth as possible. It runs a full copy of Windows XP in the background so that users can install and run all applications that are not compatible with Microsoft’s latest OS. However, there are some performance issues and [...]
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 [...]
Do you own a computer with multi-core processors? Have you heard about processor affinity? If not, you’ll learn here what it is and how it might help IT pros get more control over the performance of their applications. A little bit of background—many computers these days have multiple core processors. Unfortunately, there aren’t that many [...]
Searching for files gave you zero results? Can’t find an e-mail that you just know is on your PC? Here’s why—there might be something wrong with Windows Search. No worries, we’ve got you covered. In this post, the TuneUp Blog team will show you how to solve annoying problems with this feature and get correct [...]
The last day of this year’s TechEd 2010 was a busy one! In the coming weeks, you will see a couple of blog posts on some of the best sessions I attended. Unfortunately, there was just too much presentation content to quickly put together some blog posts on all the great things from the show [...]
