Increase Battery Life and PC Performance with TuneUp Utilities 2012
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October 17th, 2011 written by Alexandra in News
It’s ready for prime time: Today, after months and months of research on our part, I’m very happy to announce the release of our brand-new TuneUp Utilities 2012 on friday! This year’s version upgrades your PC not just with an enhanced feature for peak performance, but also with a brand-new power management system that delivers longer battery life and less power consumption. Here’s a sneak peak at some of the new and enhanced features we’ve packed into TuneUp Utilities™ 2012.
Solved: Short battery life and high power consumption
Your laptop’s battery keeps dying in the worst-possible situation: right before you’re done wrapping up a presentation, before the end credits of your DVD movie roll, or when you’re nearly done playing that game on the road. If any of these scenarios sound familiar, you’ll love our brand-new TuneUp Economy Mode. It guarantees longer battery life for laptops and lower power consumption for desktops.
How it works
PCs tend to draw more energy than they should, due to inadequate power management settings in Windows and spikes in program activity. We solved this issue with TuneUp Utilities 2012‘s new Economy Mode. It prevents PC hardware components from delivering too much power when it’s not really needed and thus from wasting power:
- Reduced processor power consumption: TuneUp Economy Mode reduces performance and optimizes the power consumption of processors for maximum battery life while providing enough power for everyday use.
- Great power savings for your devices: TuneUp Economy Mode reduces power consumption for many built-in and connected devices. It sets display brightness to more efficient levels, improves power settings for hard disk idle mode, wallpaper rotation, wireless adapters and screen standby.
- Turn off energy-sapping programs: TuneUp Economy Mode switches off background processes that are not needed and simply makes your PC’s energy output skyrocket.
Want proof? We used the benchmark suite PCMark 7 to simulate a heavy workload on a laptop. By throttling CPU, reducing display brightness, and reducing background activity, the laptop’s battery lasted 30% longer (37 minutes) with TuneUp Economy Mode as compared to Windows’ power-saving mode, all by pressing a single button! We’ll be writing a follow-up post that takes a deeper dive into the TuneUp Economy Mode benchmarking process, so stay tuned if you’d like to learn more.
High PC usage caused by third-party programs
This is another issue we’ve seen and heard about from you time and time again: New PCs work well, but their performance quickly degrades with everyday use and the installation of programs. This Secunia study shows that users have at least 66 programs installed on their machines, yet only a fraction of these products are needed on a regular basis—but, still, keep on bogging down the PC!
Our revamped TuneUp Program Deactivator solves this issue, once and for all.
How it works
In essence, the enhanced TuneUp Program Deactivator allows you to turn off programs that slow PCs down by putting them into a state of hibernation! This gives you full control over which programs can draw on your PCs resources and which ones can’t.
- As soon as you turn off a program, it stops drawing on memory, CPU power, and energy consumption. As soon as you launch a program, it’s ready for use in a fraction of seconds!
- NEW: The all-new Start-Stop Mode automatically turns off selected programs when you don’t need them!
- Program Deactivator prevents services, processes, and scheduled tasks from eating up your PC’s performance!
Again, need proof? In our recent internal study, we determined boot time improvements of more than 30%: One heavily-loaded desktop needed 63 seconds to cold boot to the Windows desktop – TuneUp Utilities managed to make it load the desktop in 46 seconds. On a faster (SSD-based) Core i5 system, boot times went down from 33 seconds to 23 seconds. That’s quite an achievement. But it’s not about boot time: On the same PC, 2.65 GB of memory was used by programs – TuneUp Utilities 2012 brought it down to roundabout 1.05 GB. Largely thanks to TuneUp Program Deactivator! In the future, we’re going to publish some of our tests so you can see (and check!) for yourself.
Get started!
While this is just a quick overview, there’s so much more to gain with TuneUp Utilities 2012. For example, our Automatic and 1-Click Maintenance tools can help you improve your PC’s reliability and de-clutter it. Turbo Mode shuts down 70 background features, while the StartUp Manager increases performance for Windows services and processes. Plus, features like the Start Center, Repair Wizard, and TuneUp Undelete address common Windows problems and data loss.
We’re sure you’ll love TuneUp Utilities 2012! Try out the new version for free for 15 days, or pick up a copy of the product at retail stores like MicroCenter, Office Max, Frys, and Best Buy or also online at Amazon.com, Newegg.com, and TigerDirect.com. Users of previous software versions will be able to upgrade to the latest one for a discounted price.
As always, let us know what you think so we can perfectly tune the next version of TuneUp Utilities to your needs!
October 17, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Good
October 17, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Purchased 2012 on line and have yet to receive it. Have been a customer for several years.
October 17, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Purchased 2012 on line some time ago, but have not received it.
November 3, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Hey Ray, sorry i’ve missed your comment. As you did not have a profile and I have no email-address to contact you, did you recieve your key, finally. If not, please contact me and give me your order number. I’ll take care! It is alexandra.blog@tune-up.com
October 18, 2011 at 12:36 am
I’ve used Tuneup Utilities for 3 years now and I’ve found that the product works very good for my needs. I love this product and I hope you keep improving it! Please don’t let anyone down!!! P.S. I love all the features about Tuneup Utilities too!
November 3, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Hey Kamran, thanks for your feedback. We are glad, that you enjoy the software for many years. Are there any features, that you like to see in future version? Or do you want to share, what works best for you? What are you favorite features of TuneUp Utilities?
October 18, 2011 at 9:06 am
Yes, excellent product; but have you fixed the bugs that I reported in earlier versions?
I guess I will find out soon. But if you didn’t, then I wouldn’t report them to technical support again; they would go live on my personal blog.
October 18, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Hi Fleet Command, we’re working hard on fixing all the reported bugs. Which bugs did you submit (ID?)? Thanks for your support, appreciate it.
Best, Sandro
October 18, 2011 at 7:01 pm
I have a question,you have only added Economy mode and TuneUp Settings Center and improved TuneUp Program Deactivator?What about other modules?!haven’t you improved them?!most of the Tuneup softwares in the market when they release a new version of their product they add some new features and improve most of the available modules but every year you just add a new feature and leave the rest of the modules untouched and without improvement,I think this is not acceptable and your policy should be revised
November 3, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Hi Saeed, please check our What’s New, to see all improvements.
http://www.tune-up.com/services/whats-new/tuu2012/
Besides that we provide free upgrade with improvements and fixes all over the year.
October 21, 2011 at 9:22 am
Looks like there are some excellent news in TuneUp Utilities 2012: Registry Editor has become Unicode-compliant and now generates version 5 of REG files! That is just great.
Still, there are some bugs that are not yet resolved. For example, standard users cannot run TuneUp Turbo mode or TuneUp Economy mode if they have hidden the TuneUp Utilities tray icon in the previous version of TuneUp Utilities. An administrator must do that. TuneUp Updater pesters standard users unnecessarily and there is no way of getting rid of it, given the fact that standard users cannot update anything.
November 4, 2011 at 11:33 am
Hi Fleet Command, just wanted to add the following information and you are correct: Running Turbo Mode or Economy Mode as standard user is not possible because of the restrictions of Windows. The update reminder can be suppressed by deactivating the automatic update function within TuneUp Utilities. It’s a known issue, but we’re researching for a resolution.
October 24, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Still can’t get upgrade to tuneup 2012 even after several phone calls and e-mails
November 3, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Hey Big, sorry i’ve missed your comment. As you did not have a profile and I have no email-address to contact you, has you issue been solved? If not, please contact me and tell me, how I can help. it is alexandra.blog@tune-up.com
October 27, 2011 at 7:04 am
When do you develop the Simplified Chinese version？
I like this software, I want to buy tuneup utilities 2012 for Simplified Chinese.
November 3, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Hi William,
the simplified chinese version of TuneUp Utilities 2012 is planned to be released in January 2012 and will then be available via our website: http://www.tuneup.cn/
November 2, 2011 at 10:32 am
Ну а русский когда будет?
November 3, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Hi Sergey, the Russian version of TuneUp Utilities 2012 is planned to be published in late January and will be available from our Russian Website: http://www.tuneup.ru/
November 2, 2011 at 10:36 am
Я из России очень неудобно с Английским
November 6, 2011 at 8:16 pm
Спасибо за информацию
December 9, 2011 at 8:38 am
Tuneup icon does not show in the active taskbar tray on the lower right side of my laptap… is it just my laptap or is it designed that way?? I really want it to be on the taskbar tray.
January 4, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Hi Vicne,
you can enable the taskbar tray in the TuneUp Utilities “Settings” center. You’ll find it in the “Tray Icon” settings – make sure that all the settings are checked and try again. If that didn’t help, a reinstall might be necessary!
Best, Sandro
December 25, 2011 at 9:55 pm
If I want to buy and use the “TuneUp Utilities 2012 Upgrade” do I need to have a previous version installed or can I just upgrade from the trial version?
January 4, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Hi Billy,
you need to have a previous (activated) version installed in order for the upgrade key to work!
Best, Sandro
January 27, 2012 at 5:16 am
I used a trial version of Tuneup Utilities 4 years ago. I found it an excellent software for any user to have in their computer. I hope have a chance to use it again.
February 17, 2012 at 1:14 am
I am very interested in the battery life upgrade. I have a netbook running at 1.66 ghz. What kind of boost could I look to gain? 10% or more?
February 19, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Depends on your typical usage – on netbooks, I was able to achieve between 10 and 20%! Try out the 15-Day trial and let us know. Would love to read about your resolts!