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Evaluation and Conclusion: Tuneup Utilities 2004

Since this program is made for basically everyone, it is really easy to use. When you open it up, it brings up a main page like the one below:

- As you can see, you can Customize, Analyze, Clean/Repair, Optimize, Administrate and Recover/Destroy Files.
- Specifically relating to security, the Recover/Destroy part of the program suite gives us multiple options
to choose from. The only little "problem" (really just an inconvenience) with this program is that you have to
always open the program itself in order to use its data destroy/erase feature. There are no contextual menus or little handy buttons you can click on to destroy a particular file. Anyway, clicking on the "Tuneup Shredder" will bring up a menu that asks what you'd like to erase, i.e. singular files, whole folders or whatever's in the recycle bin. In this example I've chosen to delete a singular file, "yeah.txt", as shown below.

-after clicking next, you see just how robust this program is in the context of erasure. If you're not too worried about people recovering your data, you can choose to erase the file by overwriting its space with a single character... you can even choose to do it 10 times if you want. But if you're really hardcore, you can erase the file in compliance with the US DoD's specific method of secure erasure... i.e. this will erase your choice(s) to where *no one* can get them. and you can, yet again, make the program go over that particular file over 100 times if you really want to make sure it's deleted.

-when you click on one of the specific programs, like "RescueCenter" which allows users to take back any changes they have made with TuneUp Utilities, a handy helper window pops up every time to help you (like shown below) with useful information about what the program does... and like any good program, TuneUp allows you to stop the pop-up help windows from reappearing unnecessarily. This, to me, makes it a program that anyone can use... and because of its robustness in erasing information, it's the easy and quick tool that even someone in the FBI could use.