User's Manual

Additional tools

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TuneUp System Information

Information is gathered and displayed in nine sections. The most important tab is

asks your computer the $64,000 question: "How is your

hardware doing?" It does this by hunting around inside the black box, bringing back and

putting together all kinds of facts and information. This information can be of particular use

when you want to upgrade your system or when a technician asks if certain components

are built into your computer.

Usage

Overview

The Speed tab with

three real-time

monitors

. This shows you the most important information for the most important devices.

This shows you which processor is installed in the computer, the system RAM, the graphic

card performance, the mouse being used and any available information regarding the disk

drives.

The other tabs contain the following information:

Windows

This section tells you exactly which Windows version is installed on your computer, when

you last started your computer, and what version of Internet Explorer you are using.

Appearance

All important information, including the supported display modes and the abilities of your

monitor and graphics card can be found here.

Memory

This section shows the current usage of your memory and tells you which programs are

currently running and how much memory they are using.

Drives

The module displays the hardware information and storage space usage for each of the

drives in your computer. This tells you how much space is still available on your drives.

I/O Devices

All important ports, installed printers and audio devices are shown here.

Speed

Here, you can view detailed information on your physical memory, the size of the paging

file and the kernel. Three real-time graphs show the current processor usage, physical

memory status and how much of your paging file is currently being used.