Optimise your Windows PC, Mac or laptop with new AVG TuneUp.
Even the newest, most powerful laptops and PCs can begin to
experience slow-downs, battery drain, storage issues and performance
bottlenecks in just a matter of months. But how do you improve your
computer’s performance?
It used to be that short of reinstalling your operating system or
resetting your machine to its factory default state was the only sure
way of getting your hardware to get back running at top performance. But
that’s time consuming, and backing up all your files, music and photos
and then reinstalling all your software can be a bit of a nightmare.
And that’s where AVG TuneUp could help you. It’s an all-in-one
package designed to keep you and all your family’s hardware running as
fast as the day you opened the box it came in.
So what is it then?
AVG TuneUp then is an all in one software app that comes with over 40
built in tools to help you optimize your PC’s performance with as
little input from you as possible. And having installed and tested
(played with it for several hours) I can say that this much is true.
Essentially, AVG TuneUp is what it says it is, and on my hardware
anyway, does everything it says it can. And that’s a good thing. Of
course, there are any number of individual disk cleaners, registry
scrubbers, and browser cleaners out there on the web these days, but
good decent all in one, fire and forget packages are, in my own humble
experience, few and far between. That’s a large part of the reason I
really like AVG’s new TuneUp.
The more eagle eyed of you out there will have noticed that this
brand spanking new edition doesn’t have 2017 added to the end of the
title description either. Like Windows 10, AVG will now just always keep
subscribers up to date with the latest version, and that’s good as
well.
Like its sibling,
AVG Internet Security-Unlimited,
just one subscription will cover every Windows, Apple, and Android
device in your family. The ‘AVG Zen’ network allows you to remotely
manage every registered device from one well designed and easy on the
eyes management screen. This is a particularly nice feature that lets
you see just how healthy everyone’s hardware is.
There is some comfort as well in knowing that thanks to the new
‘Automatic Software Updater,’ TuneUp now pushes updates to itself
automatically as they’re releases, so there’s no one annual big bang
style upset. This also means that subscribers will get their hand on new
features and improvements automatically as well. TuneUp will also keep
all your other software updated as well, regularly checking to make sure
all your software is at the latest version.
Free Up Space
I really think AVG TuneUp shines with the ‘Free Up Space’ option. For
me, I’ve always found that the biggest killer to performance on my
laptops and PCs has just been the accumulation of junk and random bits
of data clogging up my hard drives that no amount of ‘Windows Clean Up,’
will get rid of. TuneUp’s disk cleaner is superior to almost everything
else out there now, and it’s almost worth the subscription cost on its
own.
Avoid Battery Drain
The next biggest killer on system performance and battery drain are
all those apps that run in the background constantly using up memory and
tying up system processes. The ‘Deep Sleep’ mode does a great job of
putting all those pesky start-up programs to sleep or blocks them
killing their drain on resources. Where most people will notice the
improvement is in boot speeds. On one of my test laptops, the boot time
improved by 30 seconds.
Of course, what with this being the internet age, the all new
enhanced ‘Browser Cleaner,’ not only speeds up your browser, but also
cleans 60 types of browser traces from new releases of Chrome, Firefox,
IE, and new for 2017, even Edge.
Installing and running TuneUp is simple and easy, and the UI looks
good and is simple but effective and doesn’t come with lots of flashy
unnecessary bells and whistles.
Tons Of Useful Tools
TuneUp comes with over 40+ tools as standard, including Live
Optimization, and a program deactivator that I just love. I also really
like the Economy and Flight mode, which really go to town on prolonging
battery life, reducing the power consumption of the processor and
killing off all those unnecessary background processes that constantly
take a toll on your battery. Economy mode might just be one of those
things you just leave on constantly for the extended battery life it
delivers. While I was unable to verify the veracity of AVG’s “144%”
battery improvement claim, I did see a significant improvement. Turbo
mode also does the same type of thing, but in the other direction to
improve performance when gaming etc.
Conclusions
Like I said at the start, AVG TuneUp does exactly what it says on
the tin, and will improve performance, declutter your machine, and keep
it up to date and run routine maintenance without you having to lift a
finger, and that’s not a bad thing. One subscription pretty much lets
you add as many machines and devices as you want, which is a nice
feature that turns TuneUp into a real bargain. My recommendation is that
you should at least try it, and I think you’ll find it’s something you
won’t regret.
