User's Manual

How to Change Maintenance Settings
In the Start Center, click on the Change maintenance settings link in the Maintain system area of the Status &
recommendations category. The central TuneUp Utilities configuration dialog opens, with an area for Auto-
matic Maintenance and one for 1-Click Maintenance. Configure your settings here.
Alternatively, you can open the maintenance settings window by going to Overview of all functions in the Start
Center and selecting the Settings entry under TuneUp Utilities. Or click on Settings in the Start Center menu
bar and select the Automatic Maintenance or 1-Click Maintenance area.
Performing Maintenance
You can specify whether and when Automatic Maintenance should run automatically in the background. You
can even have automatic maintenance run only in idle mode, i.e. it only starts when you are not currently work-
ing on your computer and no programs are required in the background. This way Automatic Maintenance will
never interrupt your work. If you select this option, following the number of days specified by you, maintenance
will be attempted as soon as your computer is in idle mode. Three days is selected by default.
If, after a period of a week, it was not possible to perform full maintenance because your computer was not in
idle mode for long enough then - if you enable this option - maintenance will be carried out anyway. This pre-
vents your computer from not being maintained over a long period of time.
If you choose scheduled maintenance, the procedure is similar:If your computer is not switched on at the time
of scheduled maintenance, Automatic Maintenance is performed 5 minutes after you next start your PC. This
option can also be disabled.
If you work with a portable computer, you can also specify - in addition to the other options - that you don't
want maintenance to be performed when the computer is running off the battery, so as not to reduce the bat-
tery life unnecessarily. This option is enabled by default.
Maintenance Tasks
Because TuneUp Utilities preferably wants to provide comprehensive maintenance for your computer, all main-
tenance tasks are activated by default for both Automatic Maintenance and 1-Click Maintenance. However, if
you do not want certain maintenance tasks to be performed, you can exclude them from maintenance. For exam-
ple, if you would rather defragment your hard disk manually, simply clear the Defragment hard disks checkbox.
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