TuneUp Utilities 2012, 3 User License (PC)

I bought TuneUp Utilities 2011 from Amazon 6 months ago, and recently received an early-bird discount from TuneUp to upgrade to this new 2012 release - I am glad I did!

It has much the same tabbed user interface which is clean and easy to use and further help information is easy to find. All the optimising you need to do is all found and managed on one tab, but the Status & Recommendation tab, which is the homepage, will tell you the current state of optimisation and if any tasks need carried out. I like the way this page has a progress bar guiding you through the unused potential of the program to help you optimise the system.

I really like the new Economy Mode, which like the Turbo Mode, is completely customisable. I like having the ability to easily switch between economy, normal and turbo mode to suit my usage at the time. Program Deactivator has been brilliant in this version too, and has trimmed a lot off my boot time and helped me find the resource hogs on system load.

All the maintenance and tweaking I ever want to do is all in one place and it is easy to use. I have not had any faults, errors or any kind of issue with either the 2011 version, or this 2012 version which I have been playing with for 10 days now.

I am not particularly fussed about the Customise Windows tab, as I am happy with how I have Windows 7, but if you like these types of customising toys, there are dozens and dozens of options to modify windows settings and change Windows appearance so you can tweak to your heart's content!

Overall, it was a trouble-free install; it's a solid, reliable build and it's easy to use. Superb program deserving of 5 stars!

** Update **
This second-generation of Program Deactivator really is brilliant - "Phase II Reactivates programs whenever they're needed in a matter of seconds NEW! Phase III automatically switches programs back to "sleep" mode". Nearly every program I install wants to run at Startup, regardless of whether I need it to. Phase II works when either plugging in a USB device that wakes a program, or by manually starting the program. Once you are finished with it, TuneUp either deactivates it at the time, if it can, or at next reboot. So, cheeky programs can't force themselves to be running all the time again. This really is keeping my laptop running faster.

What a product, where do I start? I have tried many tune up facilities including the tune up facilities in bitdefender antivirus, i have tried free registry cleaners and other free tune up software such as ccleaner and eusing and I thought they were all good. However, this software is 100x better and I cannot understand how this software is so good. It will speed up the oldest pc or laptop you have and make it look like its got 8Gb of RAM and 5 GHz dual core processing speed. Its got so many features and it is really better than free software. Its got a great registry cleaner, best ive ever seen, its got registry defragmenter, hard disk defragmenter, cleans up disc space by removing temporary files and browser files etc, creates a lot of disc space by removing old back-up points and update back-up points when you update software etc: this feature cleans up a lot of space on your hard disc!. Its got an analysing feature where it analyses what programmes you actualy use and reocmmends which ones you should delete and what happens when you delete them. It automatically stops unnecessary baackground services such as google desktop, apple updater etc which really speeds up your PC. When you click on something that rely on these background servicces, theyre automatically switched on again. It analyses which files of your hard disc you can delete and recommends how to improve internet speed. Its got many, many other features such as economy and turbo mood. The list is endless. This software is a must- have!

My laptop (running windows vista home) had recently started freezing randomly, sometimes even in idle with no programs running, and so I found some good reviews about TuneUp and downloaded their free trial. It's so easy to use and to keep track of any changes. The recommendations are useful in pointing out programs running in the background and how to increase pc performance.

A really useful tool that I would happily recommend - the crashes have stopped anyway!