PC Tune-Up from Large Software
A PC Registry cleaner and complete computer optimizer in one handy program is at your fingertips with registry and system backups for restoration and ActiveX protection.
Ease of Use, Performance: 18/25, Look & Feel: 20/25,
Features 20/25, How much I enjoy 15/25
Total: 73/100
PC Tune-Up from Large Software is a complete registry and system performance optimizer with plenty going for it but beware the hidden nomenclatures. For amateur computer users backup usually means copy everything on your computer in case your computer crashes but here the backup is just of your computer operating system files and registry.
Other than a few misnamed parts the program works really well and does a good job of tuning up your PC with a focus on your system registry. The registry is a file location on your computer’s hard drive that has all kinds of information about the computer programs on your system as well as how your computer operates. Without this system you would not have a computer and to keep your computer running well you need to occasionally clean out and do some other work with it.
A good cleaning program will get rid of entries in your registry that are for old programs and hardware you no longer have on your computer such as an old game or video card you upgraded. There are some other things you can do in your registry to keep your computer running like it was new or as close as you’re going to get like defragmenting your registry or checking for errors in entries.
Installation takes a short time and you need to run a bit of a lengthy first scan to start using the program, it takes under ten minutes to complete on a large system like I have. For many it may take a lot less but the time is not important, what it finds and fixes is. The program found plenty wrong the first time I ran it after purposely not running any other cleaners and installing and removing programs.
When you install and then remove a program there is often many registry entries left behind that no longer are needed by your system so these types of programs will clean them out. The program worked well on most of these but after running it I would run a couple of other registry cleaner programs to see what PC Tune-Up missed and it did miss a few. The other cleaners also did not catch some of the entries that this program did so it all evens out in the end for what it can and cannot catch for old entries and errors. There was nothing that would cause my computer to not run just things that add up over time and clog up the registry with unneeded data.
The program has a nice one touch button called Magic so you can perform the complete scan, fix and defrag of your registry as well as secure your registry against ActiveX security risks. ActiveX Controls are parts of programs used through Windows Internet Explorer for use on your computer to perform specific functions, kind of like mini programs.