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 [...]
Ever scanned through Windows Task Manager and wondered why there are so many processes running? Unfortunately, Windows isn’t really of any help: It doesn’t explain what entries, like “svchost.exe”, “rundll32.exe”, and “taskhost.exe”, mean and what’s causing them. Well, the TuneUp Blog about Windows is here to clear up the confusion. In a three-part series, I’m [...]
What price do you pay when it comes to performance after installing a security solution such as Norton Internet Security 2011 or McAfee Internet Security 2011? Is your PC slowing down to a crawl thanks to a plethora of background services and real-time protection? This is the ninth blog post in a series that investigates [...]
Does it take an eternity for your PC to boot up? Have you trolled the web for some tips on improving it? There’s some good advice out there; unfortunately, there’s also some really bad advice as I discussed last week. In this blog post, I’m going to finish off my extensive boot optimization analysis and [...]
Your PC worked perfectly fine the other day, but suddenly, it’s acting up. Performance went down, CPU activity increased, and your laptop’s or desktop’s fan is going wild—there’s clearly some resource hog affecting your system. If our tuning tips didn’t resolve your situation, you might want to look at Windows Task Manager (hit CTRL+SHIFT+ESC at [...]
Boot optimization isn’t rocket science, however, there is a lot of false information out there. One reason for this is that many boot optimization tips come from the era of Windows 3.x or Windows 98, and no one really checks their validity anymore. In this blog post, we’re going to look at common Windows boot optimization myths and show you that most don’t effectively decrease boot time and that some are even dangerous.
Do you rely on your PC for all of your video needs? Is it central to your music entertainment? Then you and I are in the same boat. Have you also experienced sound issues like out-of-sync audio and video, mono sound instead of the full surround sound experience, too low volume, or no sound at [...]
Have you ever booted up your PC and only gotten a black screen? If so, something’s clearly wrong. You probably then tried a variety of steps to get your PC running again. But what if these don’t help? You might be looking at a nasty malware infection that is messing with your system’s boot files. [...]
Security suites are designed to detect and remove threats from PCs. However, by protecting PCs’ file systems and memory in real time, this sort of protection comes at the cost of performance, and many users value performance as much as security protection. This series of blog posts helps you find out which security solutions have [...]
Performance is critical for everyone—not just those using PCs but also for those accessing the Web. Mozilla recently pre-released Firefox 7 (also known as Aurora) which promises massive performance enhancements for Javascript but also resulting significantly lower memory usage. This news caught my attention, as I stopped using Firefox a couple of years ago because [...]
