TuneUp Utilities 2006 User Manual
TuneUp Utilities 2006 was developed by: Company: TuneUp Software GmbH Address: Dolivostr. 9 64293 Darmstadt Germany Internet: www.tune-up.com Support for this software can be obtained at the following addresses: E-mail: Internet: tu2006-uk@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......................................... 11 Entering Your User Name and Serial Number........ 12 Selecting the Installation Location..................
Table of Contents Usage Æ Taskbar............................................... 24 Communication Æ Network.............................. 25 Communication Æ Internet Explorer ................. 26 Communication Æ Mozilla Firefox .................... 27 Communication Æ E-Mail and Chat .................. 28 Communication Æ Privacy ................................ 29 Administration Æ User Logon ........................... 30 Administration Æ Drives ...................................
Table of Contents Clean-up............................................................ 61 Optimize and Improve............................................62 TuneUp MemOptimizer ......................................... 64 Usage ................................................................ 64 Configuring AutoOptimize ................................ 65 Manual Optimization ........................................ 66 Program Options ............................................... 66 TuneUp RegistryDefrag ..
Table of Contents Usage ................................................................ 85 Enter Search String............................................ 85 Search Results ................................................... 86 Recovering Files................................................. 87 Data Recovery 101 ............................................ 87 Deleting Sensitive Files the Right Way ............... 88 Global Modules ......................................................
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 Automatic adaptation to your operating system 10 To make all of this possible, TuneUp Utilities 2006 delves deeply into the Windows operating system. But Windows itself changes significantly from year to year. For this reason, our software adapts automatically to all supported Windows versions. As a user, you normally do not notice this and can simply use the software and all of its features.
Installation Installation 2 Before you can use TuneUp Utilities 2006 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 2006. These requirements are not demanding, and should be met by any fairly modern computer.
Installation applications and close them by pressing Alt+F4. You must do this to ensure that no problems occur during installation. This also makes it possible for the installation program to update system files that may otherwise be locked because they are in use. Please close all other programs. Once you have closed all other programs, click Next to continue. The program now displays the license agreement. Read the entire text to learn under what conditions you are allowed to use the program.
Installation not the case, please enter the correct information. The Serial number can be found on the front of this manual. Personalize your copy of TuneUp Utilities If you use Windows XP and 2000, you can specify whether the program should be available for all users on the computer or only for you in the next step. After you have entered all necessary information, click Next to continue. Selecting the Installation Location You’re almost done.
Introduction to TuneUp Utilities Introduction to TuneUp Utilities 3 Starting the Software There are a number of ways to open the TuneUp Utilities 2006 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 2006 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 2006 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 registry and corrects errors, while another deletes unneeded files from your hard drive to free up space. This can noticeably speed up your system. Æ Page 57 Optimize and Improve One module analyzes the configuration of your computer to identify settings that could be slowing it down and corrects them if you wish. Another module repairs and defragments the Windows registry. A memory manager also works in the background to optimize memory usage in 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 2006 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 Styler takes care of the appearance of Windows.
Customize and Analyze 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. And TuneUp System Information provides you with a clear overview of your hardware and software so that you know exactly what is installed in your system.
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 you click one of the subcategories with your left mouse button, the available options are shown on the right side of the window. Take a look at all of the settings that can be configured with the program, you will find many interesting and useful options. Note: TuneUp SystemControl adapts to the installed operating system automatically and only offers the options that are supported by your system.
Customize and Analyze Font Smoothing In order to improve the readability of text on your computer, you can select the font smoothing method that looks best to you under this option. The smoothing method ClearType is especially interesting. It is designed for flat screen monitors (TFT and LCD) and makes use of their so-called subpixels in order to effectively smooth the edges of small fonts. Click ClearType Settings to adapt these settings to your individual monitor.
Customize and Analyze Opening Files Here, you can specify what Windows should do when you open files of an unknown type. In the box Default application, you can specify that the dialog "Open With" be shown, or that the file should be opened with a specific program automatically (such as Notepad). Enter the path of the desired program in the Open with box. Advanced Under New shortcut prefix, you can specify whether the prefix "Shortcut to" should be added to the names of new shortcuts.
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 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 button of the program on the taskbar will blink when the program needs your attention. You can customize or deactivate button flashing here. Button Appearance You can specify whether and how windows should be represented by buttons on the taskbar. 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.
Customize and Analyze Passwords Saving your passwords means that you don’t have to enter your password every time you dial into the Internet, access password protected shares, etc. However, hackers may be able to access and misuse these passwords. You can deactivate the automatic saving of passwords here. Internet Time You can specify whether and how Windows should synchronize your system clock with an Internet time server here. You can also add additional time servers to the list.
Customize and Analyze Surf the Internet faster with this option! Communication Æ Mozilla Firefox General Text animation: Many web sites try to attract your attention by using as many visual effects as possible. These often include text effects such as blinking or horizontally scrolling text (marquees). If these effects are a nuisance to you, you can disable them by selecting the options Disable blinking text and Disable scrolling text (marquees).
Customize and Analyze Popup Windows Under Opening popup windows, you can specify that the contents of a popup window must be shown in the current browser window instead of in a new window. Under Allowed window manipulation, you can specify what changes a web site can make to popup windows. Some web sites try to hide the navigation bars in a popup window so that it looks like a Windows message dialog. You can prevent this here. Performance Here, you can enable the pipelining function of Mozilla Firefox.
Customize and Analyze Under Blocked file types, you can see a list of all file types that cannot be opened in Outlook. You can disable the blocking of individual file types, or disable the blocking of all file types by clicking Block None. Windows Messenger Under Run, you can now specify if and at what events Windows Messenger is loaded automatically. If you want to prevent Windows Messenger from running entirely, select Do not allow Windows Messenger to run (disable).
Customize and Analyze Select Empty Internet Explorer cache when exiting to have the browser cache deleted as soon as you close the program. You should only select this option when maximum security is important to you and you do not wish others to be able to find out which sites you visited on the Internet by viewing the cache. Internet Explorer Here, you can configure security settings that affect your privacy when working with Internet Explorer.
Customize and Analyze Messages Here, you can specify whether all users should be shown a message before they log on. View Specify here which screensaver should be shown when no user is logged onto the system. 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.
Customize and Analyze Administration Æ Memory and Cache Memory Management Under Virtual memory, you can configure settings for systems with more than 256 MB RAM. On such systems, deactivating the swapping of drivers and the system core can increase the performance of the system. You can specify whether the Windows system core and drivers are always kept in the physical memory or if they can be moved to the paging file if necessary.
Customize and Analyze Exit 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 After you start the wizard, a brief introduction is displayed. Click Next to continue. 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 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 can customize this navigation bar by clicking View > Navigation Bar. When you select the Categories option, the navigation bar will contain a list of all locations where startup items can be saved instead of the task list. All is selected here by default. You can limit the selection of entries shown in the right panel of the window by clicking a specific node such as Startup folder or Registry in the list of categories. Then, only the startup items at these locations will be shown.
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 Note: Please note that this window only displays the data transfer volume for the dial-up connections in your system. Data traffic over the network is not shown here. System Devices Information is shown here for your processor and BIOS. Click Processor details to view detailed information on the features of your processor. Performance Here, you can view detailed information on your physical memory, the size of the paging file and the kernel.
Customize and Analyze TuneUp Styler 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 Usage The TuneUp Styler window is broken down into two sections: a blue navigation bar on the left and a large area on the right to display the options. The customization options in TuneUp Styler are divided into seven categories, each of which can be selected directly in the navigation bar at the left. System Elements In this category, you can replace typical Windows icons with icons with a common theme.
Customize and Analyze The file shell32.dll, which is included with Windows, contains a large number of icons. As soon as you have found the desired icon, select it with your mouse and click OK to record your change. 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.
Customize and Analyze unsaved changes for these items. The second option is of course only available when changes have not yet been applied. Icon Packages It is rather tedious to change all Windows icons one at a time to change the appearance of your system. For this reason, TuneUp Styler also allows you to replace all of the icons in Windows with a new look in one fell swoop. To do this, click Icon Packages in the lower right corner of the window.
Customize and Analyze After you click this button, a wizard opens that will guide you through the process of creating an icon package: 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.
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 Styler to assign an individual, descriptive icon to each folder in the Start menu.
Customize and Analyze A preview of your changes can be seen at all times in the left pane. You can even specify how much space should be between the individual icons, both vertically and horizontally. How to get rid of the shortcut arrow The Show shortcut arrow option is very interesting. If you do not wish to have the small arrow displayed on shortcuts, you can disable it by clearing the check box in front of this option. Many users are bothered by this arrow.
Customize and Analyze You can use TuneUp Styler to replace this boot screen with just a few mouse clicks, or you can create your own personal boot screen, for example with your favorite vacation photo. Click Boot screen in the navigation bar to go to this part of TuneUp Styler. The module will list all available boot screens. The first time you use the module, the only screen in the list will be the default Windows boot screen. Add additional pre-made screens to the list, or create your own.
Customize and Analyze To create your own boot screen, go to the Boot screen category and click New Screen at the top of the list. This will open a wizard that will take you through the following four steps: 1. Select image 4 Steps to your own Boot Screen First, select a background image for your new boot screen. To do this, click one of the available options, for example Search local drives if the desired image is already on your computer.
Customize and Analyze You should avoid skin tones in your boot screen if at all possible. Pictures with skin tones normally cannot be displayed correctly with only 16 colors (ask any graphical artist). Of course, you may be lucky. The best thing to do is try! Logon Screen If you share your computer with other users, or if you use a password to protect your account, you are familiar with the Windows XP logon screen. Here, you can see a list of all user accounts.
Customize and Analyze Select the desired screen in the list and click Install Logon Screen in the lower right corner of the window. Using the text from the logon screen Most logon screens are in English, but not all. When you install a new logon screen, the text on the screen may be in a different language. For example, instead of “Click your user name to log on”, you may see “Klicken Sie auf Ihren Benutzernamen, um sich anzumelden”.
Customize and Analyze When you select a visual style in the list, a preview and additional information are shown on the right. As soon as you have chosen a visual style, click Apply Visual Style to activate it. Your screen is grayed out briefly while the style is applied to your system. As soon as the wait screen is closed, you can view your interface in all of its new glory. Downloading visual styles from TuneUp Online You can download new visual styles at any time from the TuneUp website free of charge.
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 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 Please wait until the analysis is finished. This may take several minutes. A green check mark indicates that the analysis has been completed for the section. A progress bar beneath the list shows the progress of the overall analysis. When the analysis is complete, the message “The search for errors has been completed.” is displayed. Click Show errors to close the wizard and to show the problems found in the main window.
Clean up and Repair The category Summary is selected by default. Here, the module shows that the system scan has been completed and shows how many problems were found in total. Below this, you can see how many problems were found in each category. The module can recognize problems in the following areas: Category Description ActiveX and COM ActiveX/COM objects were found that are based on libraries that are no longer available on your system.
Clean up and Repair A detailed description is available for each problem, a single mouse click is all you need. The program will then show all programs in the category with a short description. Select one of the entries in the list to view a more detailed problem analysis at the bottom of the window. The Details button must be selected in the toolbar in order for the section with the problem analysis to be visible. TuneUp RegistryCleaner is designed to correct all problems automatically.
Clean up and Repair A new wizard is opened that takes you through the process step by step. First, it indicates how many problems were selected for correction. It also informs you that all changes can be undone with TuneUp RescueCenter if necessary. Click Next to clean up your system. A progress bar indicates how far TuneUp RegistryCleaner is with its work. The module corrects all problems one after the other and makes sure that unneeded entries and keys are removed.
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 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. The number in the Space used column indicates how much space can be recovered by deleting all files in this category. Additional information on the selected category is shown on the left.
Clean up and Repair Don’t take any risks! Category Description Temporary files These are used by different programs to temporarily store data and should normally be deleted by the program when you are done working. These files can be deleted in any case. Temporary help files These files are used to display help files more quickly. It is important that you are careful when using DiskCleaner so that necessary files are not deleted.
Clean up and Repair You can clear the check box in front of any file by clicking it, thereby excluding it from deletion. You can also click Open file to view the contents of the file to see if you can delete it safely. Clean-up Click Next to begin deleting the selected files. The module then displays how many files you have selected for deletion and how much space will be recovered. Click Next again to remove the files from your system. As always, a progress bar shows the progress of the operation.
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 valuable tips for configuring your hardware and software. Wizards help you adapt the configuration of your system to your needs in a few steps. This module also includes the useful 1-Click Maintenance function, which optimizes your system with a single mouse click after finding any problems. TuneUp RegistryDefrag optimizes and defragments the Windows registry, which becomes increasingly larger and slower the longer you work with Windows.
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 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. AutoOptimize Settings This opens the configuration window for the module. Enable AutoOptimize should be selected so that TuneUp MemOptimizer runs automatically in the background.
Optimize and Improve Click OK to activate your settings. If you wish to restore the module to the recommended settings, click Recommended. Manual Optimization If you do not use AutoOptimize, or if you want to free up memory before you start a program that requires a lot of memory, you can go to Manual Optimization. Under Clear manually, you can use the slider to specify how much memory should be freed. Click Clear Now to free the specified amount of memory.
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 What happens during the 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. Under Windows 2000 and XP, a progress bar is also shown to inform you of the progress of the analysis. There is no need to worry even if this bar does not move for several minutes.
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 at work. And the best thing about 1-Click Maintenance is that you can schedule it to run regularly to keep your system clean. Once you set up a schedule, 1-Click Maintenance will run once each week, for example, without interrupting your work. You can also have a 1-Click Maintenance icon placed on your desktop so that you can run a complete check on your system at any time quickly and easily.
Optimize and Improve After you click the System Advisor link, the module begins examining your system in detail immediately. 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”. Select an entry in the list to view a more detailed description under Details.
Optimize and Improve The wizard will now analyze your system to determine whether it is optimally configured. The most important factors here are data transmission performance and the time required to load web pages. A green message Already optimized means that your system is already optimally configured for this, and that you need take no further steps. A red message Not optimal means that your configuration must be changed.
Optimize and Improve The wizard now analyzes your complete configuration and prepares a list of optimization suggestions for Visual effects and System configuration. Click a blue header to view detailed information on the suggested changes. You can reject individual suggestions by clearing the check box in front of them. Then click Next to apply the selected changes. The module now makes all of the selected changes and displays a message when it has successfully optimized your configuration.
Administer and Control Administer and Control 7 The TuneUp Utilities 2006 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 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 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 list of open files You should not be surprised when some files are shown in the list more than once. Files and folders can be opened by more than one process at the same time. It is also normal when files that are obviously “open” cannot be found in the list.
Administer and Control Keep an eye on your system in the Performance tab. Menu Bar Functions The menu bar at the top of the TuneUp Process Manager window provides you with additional functions. Click File Æ New Application to open the Windows Run dialog, which you can use to start a new application or open a file. Click File Æ Exit Windows to shut down or restart the computer so that new settings can take effect.
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.
Administer and Control When you click a value with your right mouse button, a context menu opens with a number of different commands. Delete removes the entry from the registry. Rename lets you assign a new name to the key, and Change lets you change the value of the entry. When you right click a key, the context menu that is displayed has a much larger selection of commands. One of the most useful commands here is Search, which allows you to look for words in the entire registry.
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 2006 lets you clean up your computer and remove unwanted programs from your hard drive. All you have to do is open TuneUp Uninstall Manager.
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 2006 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 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 When Delete allocated free space is selected, the Shredder will also overwrite the free space that has been assigned to the selected files. Select the files you want to delete Click Next to confirm your selection. Deleting a Folder Enter the complete path of the folder you wish to delete in the Folder box, or click Select to select the folder from a tree view.
File recovery and Destruction How securely do you want to delete your files? Quick delete: The files will be overwritten with a single character. The files no longer contain the original text, but endless columns of a single letter. Secure delete: A method that was developed by the US Department of Defense (Regulation DoD 5220.22M) is used.
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 simply use a wildcard such as *.doc or Picture??.jpg. You can enter multiple search terms in the box, but you must separate them with a semicolon. It is practical to enter one or more words to search for, but this is not required. If you can’t remember the name of the file at all, or if you want to search for all recoverable files, simply leave the search box empty.
File recovery and Destruction 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. Then click Restore, and the program will attempt to return the file to the normal Windows environment.
File recovery and Destruction For this reason, data recovery software such as TuneUp Undelete should already be installed and operational. This way you have all the tools you need should something go wrong. 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.
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 2006.
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 cleaned the registry or your hard drive with TuneUp Utilities, all changes can be found here. These backups can be restored. 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. You can also see which TuneUp Utilities module was used to make the changes and how many changes were made. What you can do with the backups Select an entry and click Details to view a log of the changes made.
Global Modules System Recovery You can even use TuneUp RescueCenter to undo changes that you did not make with TuneUp Utilities, but with other programs. This is made possible with the help of the Windows XP system recovery function. Windows XP regularly creates system restore points. If your system stops functioning correctly, you can roll your system back to one of these restore points at any time.
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 Permanent connection to the Internet. If you always establish a connection to the Internet yourself, select Start connection manually. Select your connection. If you access the Internet over a network, you may have to configure the Proxy settings in order for the connection to function properly. This is normally not necessary, as the module uses the same settings as Internet Explorer. That means that TuneUp UpdateWizard will work if you can surf the Internet with Internet Explorer.
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 most important staticians of the 20th century. Tukey had a particular talent for coining terms, he also created the term “software”. Byte A byte is the smallest addressable unit of memory. It consists of eight bits. As a bit can have one of two values, one byte allows 256 combinations (two to the power of eight), and can therefore represent 256 different conditions or characters. Cache A fast form of memory that temporarily stores data for rapid access.
Glossary Color depth The amount of information used to describe the color of a pixel. One bit can only have one of two states, on or off (1 or 0). Expressed in colors, this is either black or white. An 8-bit color depth allows 256 colors. At least eight bits per color are required for high-quality images. In 24-bit color, three color channels are used (for example red, green and blue), meaning 3 x 8 bits or 256 x 256 x 256, for a total of 16.7 million colors.
Glossary Dial-up network This Windows function allows computers to create or access networks by means of modems, ISDN adapters and DSL modems, for example. This function is also used to access online services. 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 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. This makes it possible for the associated program to start automatically when opening a file (by double clicking it). Fragmentation Normally, all data in a file is saved in consecutive clusters on the disk.
Glossary offers significantly higher bandwidth than the standard analog telephone network. ISDN is an international standard that should be applied to all existing and future networks. An ISDN line consists of two basic channels, each of which can transmit 64 kbits, and a control channel operating at 16 kbits. LAN Short for “local area network”. Distinct from a WAN (wide area network), which connects workstations and networks separated by greater geographical distances.
Glossary Partition A defined section of a hard disk that can be accessed and handled as a separate drive. Password An individual string of characters that allows a user to access a computer system or network. Path A path indicates where a file is saved on a drive. For example, the name of a picture file is “logo.bmp”, and this file is 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”.
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 Restart Starting the computer again after it has crashed or has been shut down manually. Also required when installing some kinds of software or hardware. Serial port A port through which data is transmitted bit for bit. Serial ports on the PC are based on the RS-232 standard. The serial ports of a computer are also called COM ports, or communication ports. These are normally used to connect a mouse, a nullmodem cable and/or a modem to the computer.
Glossary True Type Font (TTF) The invention of movable type by Johann Gutenberg brought about a revolution in printing by making economical text reproduction possible for the first time. Since the beginning of the DTP boom, print has again been undergoing a revolution that has been shaped significantly by True Type technology and PostScript Type 1 fonts.
Index Index 1-Click Maintenance..........................69 ActiveX and COM ..............................55 Administer and Control.....................74 Animations........................................20 Animations and Effects .....................20 Appearance Button appearance.......................25 Desktop icons...............................45 Menus ..........................................20 Application paths..............................55 AutoOptimize....................................
Index Logon Screen.................................... 49 Media Player..................................... 30 Memory Management ............................... 32 Manual optimization ................... 66 Optimize...................................... 64 Usage .......................................... 32 Menus Appearance ................................. 20 New menu ................................... 21 Operations................................... 21 Minimized windows .........................
Index Start menu ...................................24 Taskbar.........................................24 User logon.........................................30 Visual Style........................................50 What’s This?......................................20 Window tracking...............................23 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Windows Media Player..................... 30 Windows tour .................................. 31 Wizards Copy settings............................... 35 Correct problems...
