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TuneUp Utilities 2008 (PC) | 
| From: PX Software
Category: Software
List Price: £24.99
Buy New: £13.97
You Save: £11.02 (44%)
Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 71
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060160810128
ASIN: B000ZLNGE6
Release Date: December 20, 2007
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews: Read 46 more reviews...
 Disappointing because it offers so little over the freeware versions you get on magazine covers :~( December 19, 2008
Andrzej Bania (London, UK)
Having seen this for free on a magazine, I thought I'd try the full version.
Really not worth it.
I know 15 is not much to pay for a simple piece of software, but you'd be better off buying a subscription to something like PC Pro or PC Advisor and getting the Tune Up Utilities software free on the cover disks
Sad really.
 Very sorry but... December 18, 2008
ct15
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Unfortunately I never received this item in the post, however due to the nature of the Amazon Vine programme I am compelled to post a review. As I have no knowledge of the product in action please disregard this review.
Good Value December 17, 2008
David Sandilands (Bristol, UK)
I've been using TuneUp Utilities for a couple of months now and have found it to be well worth having. While I agree with others that essentially this is a collection of utilities already available to anyone with a good knowledge of XP (I haven't used it with Vista), it does group them in a functional way. It also feels fast and light giving the impression of empowering the user in a friendly, efficient way.
Overall, I think it is a good toolkit with all the utilities readily to hand and it does a pretty good job.
 Fixes things I didn't know were a problem! December 17, 2008
b4-its-2-l8 (London)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm not what you describe as a novice user when it comes to PCs, just a disinterested one. For me, PCs are simply functional products, a tool to use like a saw or a hammer; I expect them to work when I press on and to stop when I press off, and obviously, to do what I want in between these two points!
I don't get a kick out of spending a heap of cash on equipment just so that I can then spend another heap of time learning to fix its faulty functions... in the knowledge my learning will be redundant within a few years because avaricious companies have vigorously built in "planned obsolescence" to keep me keeping them solvent!
As this is my nature, buying new products and learning new short shelf-life packages all over again is pretty tedious, therefore, software like this one is ideally aimed at folk like me.
TuneUp - claims to *Repair *Accelerate *Clean - and on first run, after the hassle-free install, my hopes were pretty high as it highlighted lots of things like orphaned registry keys (whatever they may be) and pointed out obsolete stuff that could be safely deleted, so I trusted the software and pressed the 'clean up' button.
Hey Presto! The next messages came back saying these items had been sorted. Woohoo! I was now ready to enjoy using my newly improved, faster PC... errr, not quite...
If the software hadn't told me it had these fixed problems, I wouldn't have known otherwise; I couldn't spot any difference in performance... (but importantly, it caused no deteriorations ).
I've run this straightforward-to-use software several times now, and it's been useful in getting rid of items that loaded automatically in the task bar that didn't want, so it simplified that task, but that's probably not the reason anyone would buy this product... they would probably buy it because they were looking for tangible benefits and, sadly, I can't say that I've spotted any.
Perhaps I'm better off for this software, perhaps I'm not, I can't really tell. And that's the problem I have with rating it ... it might have done my PC some good, but there's no way I can know for sure. All I can say for sure is it fixed things I wasn't aware were wrong but at least it did so without causing other problems.
Not spectacular, but pretty good November 27, 2008
P. Neylan (Orpington, Kent, UK)
We all do it. We buy these products that we hope will make our computers do everything they were supposed to do in the first place but don't. TuneUp won't bring joy into your life, but it does pretty well.
It looks good. It loads easily, and you can understand it. If you're a computer whizz, you won't need it because you can do most of this stuff yourself (running Checkdisk for example) without any help from TuneUp. The rest of us need a little help. It only fails in its job of simplifying tasks with its Internet Optimisation, when it asks for your connection speed. People like me who need products like this are just the sort of people who'll have forgotten and won't know how to find out.
On my big PC running Vista Premium, I didn't notice much difference. But my daughter's XP laptop, overloaded with music, bugs and probably a bit of malware, was improved enormously.
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