TuneUp Utilities - 2006 User Manual

TuneUp Utilities 2006 User Manual

Installation 12 TuneUp Utilities 2006 applications and close them by pressing Alt+F4. You must do this to ensure that no problems occur during inst

Glossary 102 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Refresh rate This indicates how many times per second the screen picture is recreated. The higher this rate, the

Glossary TuneUp Utilities 2006 103 Restart Starting the computer again after it has crashed or has been shut down manually. Also required when instal

Glossary 104 TuneUp Utilities 2006 True Type Font (TTF) The invention of movable type by Johann Gutenberg brought about a revolution in printing by

Index TuneUp Utilities 2006 105 1-Click Maintenance...69 ActiveX and COM...55 Administer and Contro

Index 106 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Logon Screen... 49 Media Player... 30 Memory Man

Index TuneUp Utilities 2006 107 Start menu ...24 Taskbar...24 User logon...

Installation TuneUp Utilities 2006 13 not the case, please enter the correct information. The Serial number can be found on the front of this manual.

Introduction to TuneUp Utilities 14 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Starting the Software There are a number of ways to open the TuneUp Utilities 2006 Start

Introduction to TuneUp Utilities TuneUp Utilities 2006 15 The five TuneUp Utilities 2006 categories can be seen on the left side of the window. Clic

Introduction to TuneUp Utilities 16 TuneUp Utilities 2006 registry and corrects errors, while another deletes unneeded files from your hard drive t

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 17 The modules in the Customize and Analyze category help you adapt the operating system to your needs.

Customize and Analyze 18 TuneUp Utilities 2006 TuneUp StartUp Manager lets you finally put a stop to all of the irritating programs that load thems

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 19 TuneUp SystemControl TuneUp SystemControl is a kind of control center that allows you to quickly and e

Customize and Analyze 20 TuneUp Utilities 2006 As soon as you click one of the subcategories with your left mouse button, the available options are

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 21 Font Smoothing In order to improve the readability of text on your computer, you can select the font

TuneUp Utilities 2006 was developed by: Company: TuneUp Software GmbH Address: Dolivostr. 9 64293 Darmstadt Germany Internet: www.tune-up.com

Customize and Analyze 22 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Opening Files Here, you can specify what Windows should do when you open files of an unknown type.

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 23 Usage Æ Input Options Mouse Functions You can configure the functions of your mouse here by swapping

Customize and Analyze 24 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Usage Æ Start Menu Behavior You can configure how the Start menu reacts to specific mouse actions h

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 25 button of the program on the taskbar will blink when the program needs your attention. Button Appeara

Customize and Analyze 26 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Passwords Saving your passwords means that you don’t have to enter your password every time you dia

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 27 Communication Æ Mozilla Firefox General Text animation: Many web sites try to attract your attention

Customize and Analyze 28 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Popup Windows Under Opening popup windows, you can specify that the contents of a popup window must

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 29 Under Blocked file types, you can see a list of all file types that cannot be opened in Outlook. You

Customize and Analyze 30 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Select Empty Internet Explorer cache when exiting to have the browser cache deleted as soon as you c

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 31 Messages Here, you can specify whether all users should be shown a message before they log on. View Sp

Table of Contents TuneUp Utilities 2006 5 Table of Contents ...5 Preface ...

Customize and Analyze 32 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Administration Æ Memory and Cache Memory Management Under Virtual memory, you can configure setting

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 33 Exit What should Windows do when individual programs freeze, or when they cannot be closed? Under Idle

Customize and Analyze 34 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Administration Æ System General Here, you can change the name of the company and name of the person

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 35 After you start the wizard, a brief introduction is displayed. Click Next to continue. The wizard then

Customize and Analyze 36 TuneUp Utilities 2006 TuneUp StartUp Manager Many applications start automatically together with Windows without asking fo

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 37 You can customize this navigation bar by clicking View > Navigation Bar. When you select the Catego

Customize and Analyze 38 TuneUp Utilities 2006 TuneUp System Information TuneUp System Information asks the computer the question of all questions:

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 39 Note: Please note that this window only displays the data transfer volume for the dial-up connections

Customize and Analyze 40 TuneUp Utilities 2006 TuneUp Styler Windows would not be very useful without its graphical user interface. How important a

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 41 Usage The TuneUp Styler window is broken down into two sections: a blue navigation bar on the left and

Table of Contents 6 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Usage Æ Taskbar... 24 Communication Æ Network...

Customize and Analyze 42 TuneUp Utilities 2006 As soon as you have found the desired icon, select it with your mouse and click OK to record your c

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 43 unsaved changes for these items. The second option is of course only available when changes have not y

Customize and Analyze 44 TuneUp Utilities 2006 After you click this button, a wizard opens that will guide you through the process of creating an i

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 45 Here, you can assign a cool icon to the drive where all of your games are installed, and an icon with

Customize and Analyze 46 TuneUp Utilities 2006 You can even specify how much space should be between the individual icons, both vertically and hor

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 47 You can use TuneUp Styler to replace this boot screen with just a few mouse clicks, or you can create

Customize and Analyze 48 TuneUp Utilities 2006 To create your own boot screen, go to the Boot screen category and click New Screen at the top of th

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 49 You should avoid skin tones in your boot screen if at all possible. Pictures with skin tones normally

Customize and Analyze 50 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Select the desired screen in the list and click Install Logon Screen in the lower right corner of th

Customize and Analyze TuneUp Utilities 2006 51 When you select a visual style in the list, a preview and additional information are shown on the righ

Table of Contents TuneUp Utilities 2006 7 Clean-up... 61 Optimize and Improve...

Clean up and Repair 52 TuneUp Utilities 2006 The modules in the Clean up and Repair category streamline your system by removing unneeded ballast an

Clean up and Repair TuneUp Utilities 2006 53 TuneUp RegistryCleaner You can use TuneUp RegistryCleaner to quickly and thoroughly remove the unneeded

Clean up and Repair 54 TuneUp Utilities 2006 A green check mark indicates that the analysis has been completed for the section. A progress bar ben

Clean up and Repair TuneUp Utilities 2006 55 The category Summary is selected by default. Here, the module shows that the system scan has been comple

Clean up and Repair 56 TuneUp Utilities 2006 The program will then show all programs in the category with a short description. Select one of the e

Clean up and Repair TuneUp Utilities 2006 57 A new wizard is opened that takes you through the process step by step. First, it indicates how many pro

Clean up and Repair 58 TuneUp Utilities 2006 TuneUp DiskCleaner TuneUp DiskCleaner removes unneeded files from your hard drive and frees up disk sp

Clean up and Repair TuneUp Utilities 2006 59 Analysis TuneUp DiskCleaner now shows the results of the search. The right side of the window contains

Clean up and Repair 60 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Category Description Temporary files These are used by different programs to temporarily store data

Clean up and Repair TuneUp Utilities 2006 61 You can clear the check box in front of any file by clicking it, thereby excluding it from deletion. You

Table of Contents 8 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Usage... 85 Enter Search String...

Optimize and Improve 62 TuneUp Utilities 2006 The modules in the Optimize and Improve category speed up your system. Many of the default Windows s

Optimize and Improve TuneUp Utilities 2006 63 valuable tips for configuring your hardware and software. Wizards help you adapt the configuration of y

Optimize and Improve 64 TuneUp Utilities 2006 TuneUp MemOptimizer TuneUp MemOptimizer monitors your system in the background and frees up memory wh

Optimize and Improve TuneUp Utilities 2006 65 Configuring AutoOptimize Calling up the Settings Dialog If you wish to change the automatic memory opti

Optimize and Improve 66 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Click OK to activate your settings. If you wish to restore the module to the recommended settings,

Optimize and Improve TuneUp Utilities 2006 67 TuneUp RegistryDefrag Every new program and every new hardware component enters itself in the registry,

Optimize and Improve 68 TuneUp Utilities 2006 After you confirm this message, TuneUp RegistryDefrag grays the screen and shows a wait dialog to ind

Optimize and Improve TuneUp Utilities 2006 69 TuneUp System Optimizer TuneUp System Optimizer helps you to find and correct misconfigured settings an

Optimize and Improve 70 TuneUp Utilities 2006 And the best thing about 1-Click Maintenance is that you can schedule it to run regularly to keep yo

Optimize and Improve TuneUp Utilities 2006 71 After you click the System Advisor link, the module begins examining your system in detail immediately.

Preface TuneUp Utilities 2006 9 Windows XP or one of its predecessors are installed on most computers in use around the world. Windows is an excellen

Optimize and Improve 72 TuneUp Utilities 2006 The wizard will now analyze your system to determine whether it is optimally configured. The most imp

Optimize and Improve TuneUp Utilities 2006 73 The wizard now analyzes your complete configuration and prepares a list of optimization suggestions for

Administer and Control 74 TuneUp Utilities 2006 The TuneUp Utilities 2006 category Administer and Control offers three modules that help you get mo

Administer and Control TuneUp Utilities 2006 75 TuneUp Process Manager With TuneUp Process Manager, you have control over the applications that are r

Administer and Control 76 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Open Files The Open Files tab provides an overview of all files and folders that are currently ope

Administer and Control TuneUp Utilities 2006 77 Menu Bar Functions The menu bar at the top of the TuneUp Process Manager window provides you with ad

Administer and Control 78 TuneUp Utilities 2006 TuneUp Registry Editor The Windows registry is nothing more than a large central database. Every ha

Administer and Control TuneUp Utilities 2006 79 When you click a value with your right mouse button, a context menu opens with a number of different

Administer and Control 80 TuneUp Utilities 2006 TuneUp Uninstall Manager Every program that you install under Windows adds an uninstall entry to th

File recovery and Destruction TuneUp Utilities 2006 81 The modules in the File recovery and Destruction category help to protect your data and your p

Preface 10 TuneUp Utilities 2006 To make all of this possible, TuneUp Utilities 2006 delves deeply into the Windows operating system. But Windows i

File recovery and Destruction 82 TuneUp Utilities 2006 TuneUp Shredder When you delete a file in Windows, it will probably be moved to the Recycle

File recovery and Destruction TuneUp Utilities 2006 83 When Delete allocated free space is selected, the Shredder will also overwrite the free space

File recovery and Destruction 84 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Quick delete: The files will be overwritten with a single character. The files no longer co

File recovery and Destruction TuneUp Utilities 2006 85 TuneUp Undelete It has happened to everyone. You delete a file accidentally, and you can’t fin

File recovery and Destruction 86 TuneUp Utilities 2006 simply use a wildcard such as *.doc or Picture??.jpg. You can enter multiple search terms i

File recovery and Destruction TuneUp Utilities 2006 87 Don’t worry if the first letter of the file name is missing for the files on FAT drives, Windo

File recovery and Destruction 88 TuneUp Utilities 2006 For this reason, data recovery software such as TuneUp Undelete should already be installed

Global Modules TuneUp Utilities 2006 89 Two general TuneUp Utilities modules can be found in the grey area beneath the title bar of the Start Center,

Global Modules 90 TuneUp Utilities 2006 TuneUp RescueCenter TuneUp Utilities provides you with a large selection of tools that you can use to optim

Global Modules TuneUp Utilities 2006 91 cleaned the registry or your hard drive with TuneUp Utilities, all changes can be found here. Next to each e

Installation TuneUp Utilities 2006 11 Before you can use TuneUp Utilities 2006 on your computer, you must install it. This copies the program files t

Global Modules 92 TuneUp Utilities 2006 System Recovery You can even use TuneUp RescueCenter to undo changes that you did not make with TuneUp Uti

Global Modules TuneUp Utilities 2006 93 TuneUp UpdateWizard TuneUp Utilities are being continually enhanced and improved. New functions are added to

Global Modules 94 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Permanent connection to the Internet. If you always establish a connection to the Internet yourself, select

Glossary TuneUp Utilities 2006 95 10 Access permissions The assignment of specific rights to users so that they can access shared data and resources

Glossary 96 TuneUp Utilities 2006 most important staticians of the 20th century. Tukey had a particular talent for coining terms, he also created t

Glossary TuneUp Utilities 2006 97 Color depth The amount of information used to describe the color of a pixel. One bit can only have one of two state

Glossary 98 TuneUp Utilities 2006 Dial-up network This Windows function allows computers to create or access networks by means of modems, ISDN adap

Glossary TuneUp Utilities 2006 99 File name The complete designation of a file, consisting of the name of the file itself and a file extension after

Glossary 100 TuneUp Utilities 2006 offers significantly higher bandwidth than the standard analog telephone network. ISDN is an international stand

Glossary TuneUp Utilities 2006 101 Partition A defined section of a hard disk that can be accessed and handled as a separate drive. Password An indi