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    TuneUp Utilities
    « on: April 11, 2009, 03:47:21 PM »
    Hey everyone first review.

    I got TuneUp Utilites 2009 after hearing about from a friends.
     
     Well I downloaded the trial version and used it until expired and I have to say it is amazing!

    http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities/

    For 30$ I got so much out of it.

    Here's what it included

    It's a great tool for speeding up your PC.
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    Re: TuneUp Utilities
    « Reply #1 on: April 11, 2009, 06:38:10 PM »
    IMHO, any tool, which includes monkeying with the registry is dangerous.
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      Re: TuneUp Utilities
      « Reply #2 on: April 11, 2009, 07:01:48 PM »
      Quote from: Broni on April 11, 2009, 06:38:10 PM
      IMHO, any tool, which includes monkeying with the registry is dangerous.

      I've never gotten someone to explain this for me.

       I also stay away from Registry tools but the utilities this product contains is wonderful to have and I recommend it to anyone.

      EDIT: Broni can you explain why they are dangerous?
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      Re: TuneUp Utilities
      « Reply #3 on: April 11, 2009, 07:07:42 PM »
      The answer is pretty simple. Unless you're troubleshooting some problem, there is absolutely no business to touch the registry.
      No gains earned, but one wrong move, and  a lot of pain is likely to happen.

      Then, I can assure you, all other features are available for free, not for $30.
      You can try to name one feature, and I'll show you a free tool, which will do very same thing.
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        Re: TuneUp Utilities
        « Reply #4 on: April 11, 2009, 07:14:21 PM »
        Quote from: Broni on April 11, 2009, 07:07:42 PM
        The answer is pretty simple. Unless you're troubleshooting some problem, there is absolutely no business to touch the registry.
        No gains earned, but one wrong move, and  a lot of pain is likely to happen.

        Then, I can assure you, all other features are available for free, not for $30.
        You can try to name one feature, and I'll show you a free tool, which will do very same thing.

        I guess you're right

        Give it a try Broni.
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        Re: TuneUp Utilities
        « Reply #5 on: April 11, 2009, 07:15:08 PM »
        I agree with Broni.

        The registry is not something to be casually "tidied" or "cleaned", and you get no benefit from it. Assigning a cleaning method to arbitrary data means that at some point, your going to lose data that is needed.

        Mark explains it a lot better then I do. And, you simply cannot argue with him- you haven't any ground to stand on.


        And the other tools are available for free. There are free defragmenters, we have CCleaner- and half of those tools are available free as a SysInternals Util (or, at least the startup manager, AutoRuns, which is probably far more full-featured as well).
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        Re: TuneUp Utilities
        « Reply #6 on: April 13, 2009, 05:53:18 PM »
        Quote from: Broni on April 11, 2009, 07:07:42 PM
        The answer is pretty simple. Unless you're troubleshooting some problem, there is absolutely no business to touch the registry.
        No gains earned, but one wrong move, and  a lot of pain is likely to happen.

        Then, I can assure you, all other features are available for free, not for $30.
        You can try to name one feature, and I'll show you a free tool, which will do very same thing.

        There is one good thing that came from deleting things from my registry: NeverShowExt...

        Search NeverShowExt and find out why you should remove it too...
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        Re: TuneUp Utilities
        « Reply #7 on: April 13, 2009, 06:00:05 PM »
        except you can do that manually- or even better, through a script.
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          Re: TuneUp Utilities
          « Reply #8 on: April 13, 2009, 07:05:31 PM »
          Quote from: Helpmeh on April 13, 2009, 05:53:18 PM
          There is one good thing that came from deleting things from my registry: NeverShowExt...

          Search NeverShowExt and find out why you should remove it too...

          That's scary
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          Re: TuneUp Utilities
          « Reply #9 on: April 13, 2009, 07:11:30 PM »
          Quote from: Wefro_froyas on April 13, 2009, 07:05:31 PM
          That's scary
          Exactly, and there's a secondary benefit too! CMD doesn't recognize shortucts as Name.lnk until all of NeverShowExt are removed...(or until you delete the right one).

          I think it's good for safety...I just realised how much damage a scrap file could do...CMD /c del "%userprofile%\My Documents\*.*"
          *shudder*
          Attached is an example (nothing bad will happen).

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            Re: TuneUp Utilities
            « Reply #10 on: April 23, 2009, 07:18:10 PM »
            been using Tune Up Utilities for many yrs, and it does work
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            Re: TuneUp Utilities
            « Reply #11 on: April 23, 2009, 07:19:46 PM »
            Excellent, but we don't recommend it.
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