User's Manual

Introduction to
TuneUp Utilities 2009
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What's New in TuneUp Utilities 2009
TuneUp Utilities 2009 has many great new features and enhancements compared to the
previous version. Once again, our goal for the update was to implement the requests of our
users in a simple and easy way. The most important changes are listed below.
The new Start page
TuneUp Utilities 2009 welcomes you with a completely redesigned Start page, which tells
you about the status of your computer. If problems or nonoptimal settings are found, you
are only a mouse-click away from resolving them. The Start page also tells you when new
tips for increasing computer performance are available and warns you if maintenance
tasks
TuneUp Speed Optimizer
Which settings slow your computer down? Which unnecessary services or programs are
running in the background? Is your Internet connection optimally configured? TuneUp
Speed Optimizer knows the answers to all these questions. It examines your entire system
for bottlenecks, superfluous background programs, and incorrect settings. Great:
are not being taken care of automatically. The Start page also shows you whether
new automatic startup programs have been added to Windows since the last time you ran
TuneUp Utilities. You can decide whether these programs that start up automatically are
really necessary.
with just
one click you can carry out most optimizations very quickly. In addition, TuneUp Speed
Optimizer provides suggestions for speeding up
TuneUp Shortcut Cleaner
Cleaning up your working environment is tedious:
your system.
removing invalid shortcuts
Support for the Opera browser
from the
Start menu, the Desktop, and the Quick Launch bar is very time-consuming. TuneUp
ShortCut Cleaner now does the work for you. It checks whether all shortcuts are valid and
removes the orphaned ones with just a click of a button. At the same time, empty folders
are removed from the Start menu. TuneUp ShortCut Cleaner also checks frequently used
programs and cleans up the list of recently opened files.
After hard disk defragmentation, which we introduced in TuneUp Utilities 2008, the feature
most requested by customers was support for the Opera browser. TuneUp Utilities 2009
now also includes full support for Opera. Via several special Opera settings, TuneUp
System Control now allows you to change the number of Speed Dial entries, conveniently
choose your default search engine, and reenable fast backward and forward navigation.