TuneUp Utilities

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search TuneUp Utilities TuneUp Utilities 2012 Start Center Developer(s) TuneUp Software GmbH Initial release 1997; 16 years ago (1997) Stable release 2013 ( 13.0.3020.7 ) (February 7, 2013; 4 months ago (2013-02-07)) Operating system Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 Platform AMD/Intel x86 - 32bit and x64 Size 25.4 MB Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Japanese and Russian Type Utility software License Proprietary commercial software Website www.tune-up.com

TuneUp Utilities is a utility software suite for Microsoft Windows designed to help manage, maintain, optimize, configure and troubleshoot a computer system. It is produced and developed by TuneUp Software GmbH, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany and co-founded by Tibor Schiemann and Christoph Laumann in 1997. The American version of the software is distributed by TuneUp Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of TuneUp Software GmbH located in Miami, Florida.

As of 2011, nine versions of TuneUp Utilities have been released and the number of included components have been increased from sixteen to thirty-two. TuneUp Utilities have attained generally positive reviews, although multiple reviewers did not approve of its price for value. TuneUp is acquired by AVG Technologies in 2011.