AVG Performance 2015 Reviewer's Guide

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Reviewer’s Guide
AVG Performance 2015
Contents
1 AVG Performance 2015 - Help to keep your PC, Mac computer & mobile at their best.........................1
2 AVG ZenTM
- The one place that keeps it all together.........................................................................................2
2.1 Step 1: How to add devices to your AVG Zen network...........................................................................3
2.2 Step 2: Perform remote actions..................................................................................................................4
3 AVG PC TuneUp®
- Performance for your Windows desktop, laptops & tablet.......................................6
3.1 Introducing AVG PC TuneUp......................................................................................................................... 7
3.2 9 Highlights in AVG PC TuneUp you should know..................................................................................8
3.3 5 Minutes, three simple steps, one tuned PC.....................................................................................9-11
3.4 Over 39 tools to fine-tune your PC.....................................................................................................12-19
3.5 NEW AVG Cleaner for iOS.....................................................................................................................20-22
3.6 How do I get AVG PC TuneUp?...................................................................................................................23
3.7 Keeping updated...........................................................................................................................................23
4 AVG Cleaner for AndroidTM
- Help get your smartphone or tablet running smoothly �� 24
4.1 6 key highlights in AVG Cleaner for Android..........................................................................................25
4.2 3 NEW features..............................................................................................................................................26
4.3 Step by step: How to use AVG Cleaner for Android.......................................................................27-34
4.4 How do I get AVG Cleaner for Android?...................................................................................................35
5 AVG Cleaner for Mac - Clean your Mac computer of hidden clutter.........................................................36
5.1 5 Highlights in AVG Cleaner for Mac ........................................................................................................37
5.2 Step by step: How to Use AVG Cleaner for Mac.............................................................................38-39
5.3 Behind the Scenes: What AVG Cleaner for Mac Really Cleans Up ............................................40-42
5.4 How do I get AVG Cleaner for Mac?..........................................................................................................43
6 Contact Information..............................................................................................................................................44
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New AVG Performance helps to keep all your PCs and laptops in top
shape and now even optimizes AndroidTM
, iOS & Apple MacTM
devices.
Our optimization runs quietly in the background and can all be monitored with AVG Zen
right from one screen. The days of checking up on each device one by one are over.
In this Reviewer’s Guide you’ll learn all about AVG Performance, which includes:
The individual chapters and background information will walk you through our entire AVG
Performance product range, step by step. However, AVG Performance isn’t a simple bundle:
everything ties in and talks to AVG Zen, which keeps tabs on all your PCs, Android and Mac
devices running our AVG PC TuneUp and AVG Cleaner apps.
see page 6 see page 24 see page 36 see page 20, part of PCTU
see page 2
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Help to keep your PC, Mac computer & mobile at their best
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AVG Performance 2015 includes more than “just” all-round tuning and
cleaning for your PC, Mac computer, Android and iOS devices. With
AVG Zen, which we see as the central dashboard for all of your devices,
you’ll keep tabs on their performance.
How it works?
It lets you create a network of your or your family’s devices, such as PCs, laptops or Android
smartphones that report back the Performance status of each device. Once you’ve added
every device to your AVG Zen network, you’ll be able to see if there are any performance
problems or cleaning steps to be taken – and perform them with one click.
AVG Zen gives you:
• One simple overview of your devices
• Great protection and performance your PCs,
Android devices and Mac computers. And your family’s too
• Quick remote access if something needs attention

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AVG Zen
The one place that keeps it all together
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Add all your PCs, Mac computers, and Android devices to your
AVG Zen network. Here’s how simple it is:
Simply install AVG Performance on your PC, which include the AVG Zen dashboard and the PC
optimization suite AVG PC TuneUp. Once the installation is done, register for an AVG MyAccount
right through your AVG Zen interface:

Done? Click on
Connect to an existing AVG Zen network
and sign in. Now you can add your other
devices as easy as this:
On your other PCs and laptops running Windows:
1. Install AVG Zen as part of your AVG Performance subscription.
2. Launch AVG Zen and click on Connect to an existing AVG Zen network and sign in.
On your Mac computer:
1. Visit the Mac App Store and download AVG Cleaner.
2. Install and run the app.
3. Click Log in to AVG MyAccount in the application window, fill in your AVG MyAccount
login (your email address) and password, and then click Log in.
On your Android device:
1. Open up AVG Cleaner for Android, launch it and tap
on AVG Cleaner PRO or AVG Cleaner FREE icon to
bring up the main menu.
2. From here you can sign into your AVG MyAccount
and your Android device will show up and send
status updates to your AVG Zen dashboard on your PC:
More information on how to set up a MyAccount and how AVG Zen works are available in your
knowledge base: Create a AVG Zen Network and connect AVG Zen apps to your network
As the registered owner of AVG Performance 2015, you can log in as an “Admin”
and see all your others devices’ performance status from one screen.
2.1 Step 1
How to add devices to your AVG Zen network

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Now that your devices are all part of your AVG Zen network,
you can easily check their status.
• On your other PCs and laptops running Windows:
AVG Zen shows whether your PC is not tuned up and can perform
1-Click-Maintenance remotely. The red notification bubbles inform you
about potential Health and Performance problems, such as when the
security feature “User Account Control” in Windows is turned off,
if the system driver has not been checked for errors or if any settings
limit the performance of the PCs in your AVG Zen network.
If the green circle is not completely full, it means that an important
maintenance and performance action has not been performed yet or
in quite a while:
In that case you need to click on the Performance button and perform
the remote (or local if it’s your own PC!) action, such as run AVG PC TuneUp
Automatic Maintenance.
2.1 Step 2
Perform remote action
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• On your other Android devices
As mentioned in our Android chapter, you can easily check up on
all the tablets and smartphones running Android. If the green circle
isn’t full, there’s cleaning or optimization potential, such as on this
test device. Under the individual status updates you can even see
how much memory you’ve saved in total.
• On your Mac computers
You can keep tabs on the cleaning status and whether
AVG Cleaner for Mac has found any duplicates yet.
2.1 Step 2
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Remember how quickly your PC ran when
you first got it? The latest version of AVG
PC TuneUp helps you keep your computer
at peak performance. Our comprehensive
range of 39 tools include Live Optimization,
Disk Cleaner and Duplicate Finder among
the features that offer more speed, less
crashing, more disk space and longer battery
life for both novice and experienced users.
We automatically run routine maintenance,
so you don’t have to, optimizing startup
and both cleaning and defragmenting the
registry and hard drive.
For those who want maximum performance,
the most effective AVG PC TuneUp tool is
Program Deactivator, which stops programs
from reducing your PC‘s performance.
Economy Mode and Flight Mode significantly
prolong battery life, which is invaluable when
you’re on the go. One click reduces the power
consumption of the processor, switching
off unnecessary background processes and
reducing the power consumed by internal
and external devices.
NEW! With our brand-new 2015 release,
we’ve added our new AVG Cleaner for iOS
which removes clutter from iPhones, iPads
and iPod touches right from your PC. Plus,
we’ve enhanced our Disk Cleaner to now
clean up more than 200 programs
and games.
Continually finds and fixes
issues that compromise
peak performance.
Helps isolate and repair the
causes of crashes, freezes,
and error messages.
Preserves battery
life for more
power on the go.
Powerful tools
to de-clutter and
clean your PC.
More Speed
Less Crashing
Longer Battery Life
More Disk Space
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AVG PC TuneUp 2015
Performance for your Windows desktop, laptops & tablets
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*These results are fresh from the AVG Internal Test Lab. We tested AVG PC TuneUp on a number of common PCs, laptops and tablets
The test results are available at www.avg.com/performance. For more information, please refer to the whitepaper in our press kit.
• AVG PC TuneUp is compatible with Windows®
8 & 8.1 PCs, laptops & tablets.
• Automatic Maintenance regularly takes care of 7 factors that cause
a slow PC – so you don’t have to
• Economy Mode and all-new Flight Mode could boost battery life by up to
90% when playing 3D games and 50% when watching a movie
• Program Deactivator is the most powerful tool to help users get their PC running
at top speed. In combination with other AVG PC TuneUp speed tools, it could
improve start up time by up to 75%
• In our internal tests, our enhanced Disk Cleaner was able to remove 69 GB of
unnecessary temporary files from a desktop PC running Windows 7 and even
6 GB on a new Ultrabook running Windows 8.1
• Turbo Mode adjusts over 70 programs and processes for more speed
with just one click
3.1 Introducing AVG PC TuneUp
Did you know?*
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Features Spotlight
• Automatic Cleaning Updates
Regularly increases the number of programs we can clean

• NEW! AVG Cleaner for iOS®

Help users get rid of the hidden leftover files on their
iPhones™
, iPads™
and iPod™
touches, which can amount to thousands, from both
iOS itself as well as apps used on a daily basis

• Program Deactivator
Helps speed up your PC by stopping programs from slowing it down
• Live Optimization
Constantly prioritizes all programs to deliver optimum performance
• Registry Cleaner
Cleans up your registry and helps you solve problems
• ENHANCED! Duplicate Finder
The new automatic selection helps you get rid of duplicate even faster than before
• ENHANCED! Disk Cleaner
Wipes junk to free disk space from now even 200+ applications, such as the gaming
platforms Steam®
and Origin™ and popular programs like Skype™
and Picasa™
• Flight Mode
One click turns off Wi-Fi ®
& Bluetooth®
for even longer battery life
• Browser Cleaner
Removes browsing traces from 25 of the most popular browsers
• AVG Zen
Remote control of 1-Click Maintenance from AVG Zen application
3.2 10 Highlights in AVG PC TuneUp you should know
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Automatically maintains your PC, so you don’t have to
AVG PC TuneUp helps fix and speed up your PC easily by deleting unnecessary leftover
data and bringing order back to your hard disk. It also stops programs that slow down
boot up, defragments your disk, and optimizes and cleans your registry.
How it works?
When you install AVG PC TuneUp, you will be asked if you want to run an initial PC scan.
When the scan is finished you can choose which recommendations you want to accept.
Automatic Maintenance is now set up and will fix and speed up your PC every three days.
You can also set it up manually: Just go to the Dashboard tab and click on the
Scan Now button.
3.3 Five minutes, three simple steps, one tuned PC
Even if users don’t have the time or want to invest heavily into tuning
their laptops or PC, AVG PC TuneUp can help. All it takes is three simple
steps and then your PC will automatically free up disk space, give you
more speed and suffer from less crashing. And when you’re on the go,
you‘ll only need one click to get longer battery life.
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Program Deactivator gives your PC a powerful speed boost
Remember how your PC, laptop or tablet ran when you first got it? The most likely
reason that it is slower than before is the number of applications on it. Many installed
applications run in the background, even if you are not actually using them. Program
Deactivator speeds up your PC by stopping programs that you rarely use from quietly
draining processor power, such as instant messaging tools, screen capture utilities or
driver control panels. And you don’t need to worry about losing access to the programs
you love; Automatic Start-Stop Mode allows any programs that you have deactivated
to be reactivated in a single click. When you have finished using them, they are
automatically deactivated again.
How it works?
Start AVG PC TuneUp and click
on the Optimize tab. Next,
select Disable programs and
flip the switch on as many
programs as possible. After a
reboot you will likely notice that
the PC runs faster than before!
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Use Economy Mode and Flight Mode for longer battery life
Is your laptop or tablet running out of juice too soon? With both Economy Mode and
the Flight Mode, you can noticeably increase battery life.
So what’s behind the magic?
• Reduced processor power consumption: TuneUp Economy Mode reduces your
processors’ performance and optimizes their power consumption for maximum
battery life and sufficient power for basic, everyday use.
• Great power savings for your devices: TuneUp Economy Mode reduces the power
consumption of many built-in and connected devices.
• Turn off energy-sapping programs: TuneUp Economy Mode switches off unnecessary
background processes that slow PC performance down.
In addition to that, Flight Mode completely disables Wi-Fi & Bluetooth devices
instantly just by flipping a switch.
How it works?
Start AVG PC TuneUp and click on Economy first in the lower left corner. Then click
on Flight Mode. This will turn off power-sapping functions or devices and optimize
power-related settings.
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With over 39 tools, there’s a range of ways to personalize your PC
performance. The tabs at the top of the console show which tools
can help you optimize your system, gain more disk space, fix common
problems and customize your settings. The All Functions tab at the
top right of the console shows you all our tools on one screen.
Here’s a guide to some of our most powerful tools:
Dashboard:
AVG PC TuneUp’s Dashboard helps you manage PC problems and performance alerts easier
than before.
How it works?
You can now more easily see what optimization steps need to be taken by clicking on the bars
in the Optimization Potential graph and perform therecommended action. Also, the Dashboard
helps you fire up Flight Mode and scan your PC’s performance state as well as improve your
PC’s health. Don’t like some of the settings and optimizations? Just undo them easily using our
Rescue Center.
3.4 Over 39 tools to fine tune your PC
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IMPROVED Disk Cleaner
Our new Disk Cleaner include significant new and improved cleaning definitions to help remove
the wasteful files of 39 additional programs. This year’s highlights include:
Origin & Steam Wasteful log files and telemetry data hidden within the two gaming platforms.
Windows®
We’re now cleaning even more temporary files, caches, log files, and leftover
8.1 Apps cookies from all built-in Windows 8 apps.
Skype™
Cache files, temp files and backup installation files from Skype. All Cyberlink®
products: Leftover log files, temp files, trace files and also backup installer
files from more than 25 Cyberlink products, such as Cyberlink®
PowerDVD.
Apple software Unfinished and broken downloads, such as videos or music, from iTunes
(on Windows) and many locations in which Apple products, such as QuickTime or the
iCloud client, store backup installation files and updates. These files are
no longer necessary once the products are installed.
nVidia and Leftover data that gets created by installing and running Intel and nVidia
Intel software drivers, such as cache files for nVidia Shadowplay.
Windows In order to protect Windows and users data from harm, the User Account
User Account Control (UAC) redirects files from programs which require administration
Control Cleanup rights, such as older Windows XP programs. AVG Disk Cleaner removes
wasteful files that were created by these older applications.
Windows All leftover files from when a user has upgraded to a newer version, such
Upgrade backups as Windows 7 to Windows 8.1. These files can be several Gigabyte in size.
This include also all future in-place upgrades for Windows 10 and onwards.
Screenshots A new category with screenshots that an application or the user has taken
within applications such as BS Player or VLC.
Flash and Java In addition to cleaning Flash and Java cookies, AVG Disk Cleaner now cleans
temp files leftover temporary data, too.
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In addition to that, we now clean up leftover data from the following applications:*
We’ve even improved our cleaning algorithms for the following applications:
How it works?
Go to the Clean up tab and select Clean up Windows and programs. Go through the
list of items you may want to clean up (see below for a thorough description).
The descriptions on the right hand side will let you know what kind of programs have
produced the accumulated data traces that you’re about to clean up. Hit the Clean button!
• AMSN
• Avira
• All Ashampoo products
• All Auslogics products
• DriverMax
• Google Talk
• IMVU
• iDownloader
• Musicmatch
• Nero
• Nortons
• UltraEdit
• Starmoney
• Picasa
• Audials
• BS Player
• All Roxio products
• Java Runtime Ent
• Yahoo! Messenger
• CleanMYPC
• Comodo
• Corel Paintshop Pro
• Audials
• Microsoft Office’s proof-
reading features as well as
the Windows Presentation
Foundation feature
• ACDSee
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Lightroom
• Corel Aftershot Pro
• Corel Paintshop Pro
• GIMP
• Google Nik Collection
• Paint.NET
• PhotoPad
• Photomatix
• Snagit
• Zoner Photo Studio
Note: Auto Maintenance & 1-Click-
Maintenance will remember these
settings & perform them accordingly
* All product names used in this document are
trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no
way associated or affiliated with AVG Technologies Inc.
These trademarks of other manufacturers
are used solely to identify the products of those
manufacturers which are cleaned AVG Disk Cleaner.
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Browser Cleaner
Browser Cleaner cleans up online traces and temporary data from over 25 browsers, including
Internet Explorer®
, Chrome™, and Firefox®
. It helps protect your privacy by removing leftover
data that browsers can’t delete by themselves, such as Adobe Flash®
Cookies, and optimizes
the browser database to troubleshoot and speed up the browser.
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With features such as Flash cookie removal and browser database compression, AVG
Browser Cleaner not only offers the cleanup of 25+ browsers, but will optimize more
effectively than each browser’s built-in cleaning feature. It cleans up…
Cache Temporarily stored data of recently accessed websites
Cookies Identification technique for websites such as social media sites or
shopping portals. And while it’s a convenient method for tracking,
it’s also a privacy concern. AVG Browser Cleaner allows you to
protect cookies of your favorite websites.
Typed-in URLs List of URLs you typed into the browser’s address bar
Entries for the last selected download folder
Stored passwords Passwords stored in your browser
URL cache Cache for all previously typed in URLs
Data base Compression of the browser database
Updates Unnecessary update files
(e.g, from alpha builds of Firefox®
) … and more
How it works?
Under the Clean Up tab, hit the Clean Up Browsers button.
Make sure to select all the browsers and items you would like to clean up.
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3.4
Enhanced Duplicate Finder
With the growing volume of data we view, consume and store, it’s critical to keep an eye on
redundant data. The Duplicate Finder discovers identical files, that were maybe duplicated by
accident or by an application, and helps you
safely get rid of the data you no longer need.
How it works?
Go to the Clean up category and click on
Find and delete duplicate files. Hit the
Scan for Duplicates Now button. Wait
until the scan is complete. It may take a
while to complete a scan on a heavily used
work PC with several storage devices attached,
but it may help you free up a huge amount
of disk space.
Duplicate Finder’s Pictures, Music, and
Documents categories help you find the
most common types of duplicate data,
while the “Other” category helps you find
redundant applications, ISO files and other file types.
This is great, for example, for finding duplicate music files you put in your Download folders
and then copied to your music folder, or photos you copied for editing and forgot to delete.
Thanks to the comparison view and meta information, such as size, location or date, it’s easy to
spot the files you no longer need and get back valuable disk space. Select the files you no longer
need and hit the Remove selected button!
And with our 2015 release, our all-new recommendation feature helps you get rid of all wasteful
duplicates in one go: just select whether you’d like to keep the older or newer duplicates and hit
one button to clean up.
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Live Optimization
Programs or processes that run in the background often drain your CPU’s power,
slowing performance down to a crawl. It’s really hard to work out what’s wrong.
The problem could be a resource-hungry browser with dozens of tabs or a process
that has crashed. Live Optimization works silently in the background and combines
two technologies to constantly optimize loading speed and PC performance.
It monitors what application you’re actively running and ensures that application
maintains full performance by reducing the priority of background applications
and tasks.
In addition to that, AVG PC TuneUp’s
Live Optimization detects which
programs frequently slow down your
PC and offers a screen that lets you
temporarily deactivate them with
just one click.
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Shortcut Cleaner
Do you experience error messages when opening files in programs, on the desktop or in
Windows®
? This occurs when you delete a file, but Windows®
and programs still list it in their
Most Recently Used lists (MRU). The Shortcut Cleaner turns chaos into order by removing
unnecessary shortcuts on your desktop, in your start menu, and in recently used lists likesongs
played in Media Player or documents in Microsoft Office that were deleted a long time ago.
How it works?
Go to the Clean up tab and click on Remove broken shortcuts.
Select the shortcuts in Windows®
and programs you no longer need.
Turbo Mode
If you need more speed, then Turbo Mode will get you there. Click on the Turbo Mode icon and
answer 5 questions to set this up. When Turbo Mode is active, scheduled tasks for maintenance
and updates are postponed, support for digital cameras and scanners are limited and
synchronization with mobile devices is turned off. Additionally, special effects in Windows are
disabled and design is switched to classic mode. Some additional tasks that automatically occur
in the background are turned off, together with rarely used services (local or network).
How it works?
Just open up AVG PC TuneUp and hit the Turbo button. If you’re
done playing a game or working with a resource-heavy program,
go back to the Standard mode.
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3.5 New AVG Cleaner for iOS
AVG Cleaner for iOS
AVG PC TuneUp 2015 comes with our
new AVG Cleaner™ for iOS®
to safely
remove leftover data from your iPhone®
,
iPad®
or iPod®
touch.
If users are running out of disk space,
aredealing with crashing apps, and seeing
amassive Document and data or Others
categories in iTunes when hooking up
their Apple device to their PC, it may be
due to hidden clutter on the device.
How it works?
Open up AVG PC TuneUp and select Dashboard. Then, go to the Clean up category.
Connect your Apple device to your PC and click on Clean Up iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
Hit the Scan Now button. Have a look at the results. AVG Cleaner for iOS cleans up the
following leftover files.
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What does it clean up?
Download Cache & Temporary Files
Problem Most apps create a Cache and Temporary Files folder to store data that’s
needed while they are running, such as how Google Maps downloads local
information to help you go where you’re getting. Unfortunately, many apps
tend to forget to clean out these hidden downloads even after they’re no
longer being used, which may result in your iOS device running out of space soon.
Solution AVG Cleaner for iOS cleans out these hidden cache folders safely. Even
according to Apple’s official guidelines, the cache folder is safe to delete as it
includes data that can easily be renewed or downloaded again by the app. In
fact, it may help even solve some problems when one of these cache files gets
corrupted or damaged by a bug in the app.
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Thumbnail Cache
Problem Every time you browse a photo
related app, it creates thumbnail
files to display the little previews
(see image on the right), but may
forget to delete them even if
they’re no longer necessary.
Solution AVG Cleaner for iOS cleans out all
thumbnail files from 3rd party apps.
It gets rid of all thumbnail files that
are no longer being used and will
only recreate the ones you don’t
need. Don’t worry, your stored
photos will not be touched.
System Logs & Crash Reports
Problem Ever time an app crashes or an error occurs on your iPhone, iPad or iPod
touch, a crash report and logs will be created. If you want to, these can be
send to Apple or the maker of the app. However, these reports take up
valuable storage and may even contain personal information.
Solution AVG Cleaner for iOS cleans helps users delete system logs and crash
reports. More disk space and the protection of personal information within
these cookies.
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You can download a full-featured trial version of AVG PC TuneUp at
www.avg.com which will let you enjoy the full application for 30 days.
After that, some of the core features will still be available. We recommend purchasing
a full version of AVG PC TuneUp in order to continually help keep your computer at
peak performance.
The Automatic Cleaning Update adds new programs to the
list we can clean.
AVG PC TuneUp also automatically offers you the latest version of the software throughout
the lifetime of your paid purchase.
3.6 How do I get AVG PC TuneUp
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Some of this is caused by the apps we use on a daily basis, like games or social media–
but much is also caused by apps we no longer use or that are running constantly in
the background.
AVG Cleaner makes it quick and easy to identify (and remove) such unwanted apps but also
helps you clean the clutter from your phone, such as cache, history, and call logs.
CHAPTER 4

AVG Cleaner for Android 2.2
Helps get your smartphone or tablet running smoothly.
We all have way too much unnecessary clutter on our phones and
tablets – things that eat away our storage, waste mobile data and
drain battery life.
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4.1 6 Highlights in AVG Cleaner for Android
• App Advisor
AVG Cleaner for Android can quickly identify apps that consume your mobile
bandwidth (3G, 4G, LTE) when you’re on the go and your Wi-Fi at home, which apps
are draining your battery or which ones are eating away at your smartphone’s storage
• Battery Saver
Lets you take control of your battery life by turning off power-hungry features which
helps you keep your Android device running longer. The Battery Saver also indicates
how much battery life you can save by turning off certain services – and with a tap of
a button, AVG Cleaner will turn off these services for you
• Battery Profiles
Our new and only PRO feature called Battery Profiles lets you automatically save battery
life when you need it the most. You can choose between Home, Office and Car
modes which turn off features you don’t need in some locations (see “PRO Feature:
Battery Profiles” below). This helps you save even more power when you need it the most
• Cache & log cleaner
AVG Cleaner for Android clears out unnecessary app caches, history lists, long-forgotten
downloads and apps you haven’t used in a while to make space for things you actually
need, like music, photos or your favorite apps
• Works automatically
AVG Cleaner for Android also runs on a regular schedule and cleans up cache files, history
lists, call lists, old messages and other items that can be cleaned up
• 30 Languages
AVG Cleaner is available in 30 languages, including German, French, Spanish, Portuguese
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4.2 2 NEW AVG Cleaner for Android Features in 2.2
• Large file finder
Our all-new version 2.2 app scans your Android tablet and phone for massive files,
such as downloads, app packages, videos, music files or other data that you may
have downloaded or copied over to your device – and perhaps forgotten about.
• Check up on your Android from your PC
You can remotely check up on your Android smartphone or tablet from your PC –
all you have to do is install AVG Zen on it and you keep taps on your handset
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The following takes a closer look at the features and benefits of
AVG Cleaner. To continue, download AVG Cleaner for Android
from the Google Play Store and install the app.
Section 1: Cache
Benefits This feature cleans up your cache files to give your device more space. It can also
solve problems when launching or running an app that has corrupt cache files.
Behind Most apps create “cache files” to temporarily store information. For example,
the Scenes a social media app may store photos you looked at, inside the cache folder.
Unfortunately, deleting the cache folder is the job of each app maker, as Google®
states in its official
development guidelines. AVG Cleaner gets rid of such cache files on a regular basis. In some cases,
this cache folder can even become corrupt – causing crashes or even preventing the app to start.
Here’s how to clean out the cache:
1 Launch AVG Cleaner for Android Open
AVG Cleaner for Android and tap on Cache.
2 Delete what’s not necessary. The following list
shows all installed apps that have created cache
files and may have ‘forgotten’ to delete them
3 To clean up all cache files at once, just hit
the Clean All Cache button. To look more
closely at a specific app or even remove it,
tap it once to get more details. This may be
necessary, for example, when an app that
you no longer need or use is creating hundreds
of Megabytes of cache files.

4.3 Step by Step:
How AVG Cleaner for Android 2.2 works
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Section 2: History
Benefits This cleans out your browser history and frees up precious disk space,
not to mention improving the control you have over your privacy.
Behind A lot of what you do on your phone is being stored in history lists.
the Scenes AVG Cleaner knows where to look and wipes these lists, such as:
- Caller list A list of all incoming, outgoing and missed calls.
- Browser History Cache files, cookies and other temporarily downloaded files
from within your Android browser.
- Clipboard If you’ve copied and pasted text, images or other things from apps,
they may be stored. Images, for example, can be quite large and may be
beneficial to erase the clipboard cache in order to free up storage space.
- App History A lot of apps also
log your activity, such as the app
pages you visit on the Google PlayTM
store or the items you searched for
in the eBay app. If you sometimes
share your tablet or phone with
friends or family, you may not want
them to see what you were doing on
your phone. AVG Cleaner for Android
also helps get rid of these lists.
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Section 3: App Uninstaller
Benefits Helps improve battery life and performance as well as free up storage space. App
uninstaller also allows users to put a stop to apps that constantly drain battery life.
Behind The more apps you install on your Android phone or tablet, the slower it will run
the Scenes and the sooner it will run out of battery. That’s because a lot of apps come with
a lot of clutter that run on your phone, even when you’re not using the app. Our
new AVG Cleaner helps you identify ‘greedy’ apps that just drain your battery life
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STEP 1
Open up AVG Cleaner and go to the App Uninstaller page. This list will show
the currently installed apps that drain resources. Tap on the menu at the top to
give you several options:
- App Usage Shows the apps you haven’t used in a while. This will help you
determine which apps you may have forgotten about and end up sitting there
slowing down your phone and tablet and consuming precious space.
- Battery Usage This helps you figure out which are the most power-consuming
apps on your device. It’s very likely they too will have an impact on performance.
If you don’t need some of the top offenders (for example, apps in the list
that drain more than 5% battery), you can get rid of them. If you need them,
however, open the settings (if this function is available)and reduce the
background activity.
- Data Usage If you’re on a monthly data plan with your mobile carrier, saving
every Megabyte counts. If you sort the apps by Data Usage, you’ll quickly
find the top apps that are using up your monthly data. Again, this will help
you either uninstall the app if you don’t use it or turn off (or reduce) its
background data usage.
- Storage Usage Sort by Storage Usage will help you find the largest apps,
such as games or video editing apps, in which you may not need anymore.
STEP 2
To uninstall any of the offending apps, tap on the app’s icon and press Uninstall.
You can even tap and select multiple apps at once.
Tip: You can set the built-in ‘Advisor’ to regularly remind you of apps you haven’t used
in a while or that exceed a certain storage limit. To configure the Advisor go to Settings
at the top right of the screen and look under the ‘Uninstaller’ section. Select Advisor
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Section 4: Battery
Benefits Helps improve and extend battery life to work or play longer.
Behind Turns off features and built-in hardware of your smartphone or tablet in which
the Scenes you may not need constantly. While some of these settings are available within
Android, others may be hidden and may be cumbersome to configure. Click on
the battery icon, and then click on Optimize. Turn off the following list of
services to improve battery life by tapping on them and adding a check mark.
Wi-Fi If you’re nowhere near a Wi-Fi network, this feature can be turned off. Otherwise
the built in Wi-Fi receiver will constantly scan for networks, which leads to
increased power use.
Bluetooth If you’re not using a Bluetooth handset or if your car isn’t connected to your
smartphone, make sure this setting is turned off. Otherwise it will continually
scan for compatible Bluetooth devices.
Mobile data If you’re on Wi-Fi, or in an area with no data reception, your phone (or tablet) will
continually try to find a working data signal, which will reduce battery life. If you
don’t need data; for example, when you’re at home, this can be turned off.
Brightness Most Android smartphones and tablets come with super high-resolution
displays that are one of the main reasons for battery drainage. If you’re not in
bright sunlight, you should try reducing your brightness setting by 50% or even
70%, which will significantly improve battery life.
Screen The built-in accelerometer watches your movements and rotates the screen
rotation accordingly. Unfortunately, this is also a feature that reduces battery life and
should be turned off if you’re nowhere near a power charger.
Auto Even while it’s sitting in your pocket, your Android phone constantly tries to
sync data connect to the web and update apps. That’s also one of the reasons why battery
life decreases. When you’re out and about and don’t want your phone to
constantly check for updates, turn this off and save battery life.
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Setting this up manually every time you
leave the house can be a bother. That’s
why we implemented a new PRO feature
which automatically saves battery life
based on where you are. See PRO Feature:
Battery Profiles.
Auto Clean Settings
Benefits Takes care of the regular Android cleaning process with automatic cleaning.
Behind Auto Clean removes unwanted app files (see ‘Cache’) on a weekly basis.
the Scenes To determine what’s being cleaned up, tap on the three dots in the upper
right corner of your screen and select Settings. Then click on Auto Clean
Settings. This is where you can decide the frequency with which you’d like
AVG Cleaner to clear your app history, cache and calls.
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Check up on up your Android remotely
Benefits Thanks to AVG Zen you can check up on the performance status all
your Android smartphones and tablets, or those of your family and
friends. All you have to do is install AVG Zen on your PC and from here
on you can scan all your Android phones and tablets for wasteful junk
and see what actions need to be taken.
Behind With AVG Zen you can easily keep tabs on all your devices, including PCs
the scenes or Android devices. It lets you see the protection, performance and privacy
status of all your connected devices, right from one central place.
How it works?
Simply install AVG Performance on your PC, which includes the AVG Zen app and the PC
optimization suite AVG PC TuneUp. Please refer to Chapter 2 for our full guide on AVG Zen.
In this chapter we’ll show you how to add your Android device to your AVG Zen network and
manage its status remotely.

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PRO FEATURE Battery Profiles
Benefits Helps improve battery life fully automatically.
Behind Turning off (or on) these features manually
the Scenes can be a bother. For example, when you’re
in your car you may need Bluetooth – and
perhaps not when you’re at work or at home.
That’s why we’ve implemented a PRO feature called
Battery Profiles that can detect where you are or what
you are doing and adjust the power usage of your smartphone accordingly. Just click on the
battery icon and you’ll see the following three profile options:
Home Leaves Wi-Fi enabled, but turns off mobile data and Bluetooth.
As you’re inside, it also turns down brightness.
Work Leaves Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled as well as data syncing enabled.
Car Turns off Wi-Fi but leaves mobile data and Bluetooth enabled.
You can select these profiles yourself or set certain conditions, such as when a certain Wi-Fi
network is nearby, a specific Bluetooth device is found or when the charge status or energy
level has reached a certain point. It can even be set so that a specific profile is only activated
when you’re charging via an AC Adapter or just via your computers USB port.
This feature is one
major step towards
reducing the worry
about battery life –
whether you’re at
work, on-the-go in
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AVG Cleaner for Android is available for FREE on the Google Play store.
The PRO Battery Profile feature will be available free of charge for 30
days, so you can evaluate this functionality. Once the period is over,
the app will automatically revert to the FREE version.
To get PRO, you have the following two options:
1. If you just want to use AVG Cleaner for Android PRO, you can do so via an in-app
purchase and get the Android PRO subscription for $0.99 a month or $4.99 annually.
2. If you want all your devices, including PCs, Android devices and Mac computers, to be
cleaned up and optimized, you can get our AVG Performance subscription for $39.99
for unlimited devices and have them all monitored and tuned up using AVG Zen remotely.
4.4 How do I get
AVG Cleaner for Android 2.2?
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Even Apple’s MacBook Air®
, MacBook®
Pro, iMac®
, Mac®
Pro - well,
basically everything that’s running Mac OS X- are collecting data
junk over time.
That’s why our new AVG Cleaner for Mac scans through your whole disk and looks for leftover
files from programs you uninstalled, browser caches, and crash files that were created after
one of your apps froze up on you, for example. In addition to that, the app finds duplicate files
that you – or perhaps a program – may have created and forgotten about.
In this Reviewer’s Guide, we’ll dive deep into data clutter that even the newest Mac computers
accumulate after only a few days, how much disk space you can regularly gain and how you
can effectively get rid of it to preserve your privacy and boost system reliability. Let’s give your
Mac computer a proper spring clean – throughout the year!
CHAPTER 5

AVG CleanerforMac
Clean your Mac computer of hidden clutter
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AVG Cleaner for Mac gets rid of several leftover data fast:
• Forgotten duplicate files
Viewing, copying and editing files could result in duplicate files taking up
gigabytes of space on a hard drive. AVG Cleaner for Mac finds duplicate
music, photos, videos and documents and lets users delete them easily
• Uninstall leftovers
Even if a user has uninstalled an application, unneeded cache files may
remain on users’ hard disks
• Download folder
Browsers store files (.dmg setup files, videos, pictures, documents) in the
Download folder by default
• Browser cache
Safari®
, Chrome®
, and Firefox®
web browsers store their temporary cache files
and cookies in the user’s cache folder. To prevent this cache from growing and
to protect user’s privacy, this cache will be deleted by AVG Cleaner for Mac
• Crash files and logs
Update logs and crash reports are created automatically by both Mac OS and
3rd party applications. As this data is only useful very rarely and can waste
a lot of disk space, AVG Cleaner for Mac helps get rid of these files
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Disk Cleaner
AVG Cleaner for Mac, our free Mac Cleaning app, helps you get rid of
hard disk clogging data clutter that accumulated regularly in just a few
clicks! Here’s how it works:
1. Download and install free AVG Cleaner for Mac.
Open up the app
2. First, click on the Scan now button on the
Disk Cleaner section. AVG Cleaner for Mac
will then scan all hidden cache and log files
folders for leftover files and data trash,
long-forgotten files in your Download folder
as well as Recycle Bin. The results will show
up quickly.
3. Hit the View & Clean button to look at the
results. In the following example, a pretty
new 2012 27” iMac, we found 14.3 GB of data
in the Download folder as well as a couple
of hundred Megabytes in wasteful cache and
log files. Clicking on the little grey arrow
reveals the actual files you’re about to delete:
For first-timers, we recommend going through
the list of downloads and see what you need
or not – make sure to uncheck files you need
and leave all the unnecessary programs,
music files, or videos checked.
4. Except for the Download and Trash folders,
there’s rarely any need to review cache or log
files from your other programs – you can delete
them safely. Ready? Hit the Clean button!
5.2 Step by Step:
How AVG Cleaner for Mac Works

Close the program!
Now enjoy your regained disk
space and your cleaned-up Mac.
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Duplicate Finder
On a daily basis you open, save, copy, download and move files…over time, this unavoidably
leads to duplicate files flooding your Mac: It may be that you copy and renamed a file or just
backed up a file and completely forgot about it. Whether big or small, these file clones take up
hard disk space in an obscure hidden folder. Here’s how AVG Cleaner for Mac’s Duplicate Finder
helps to find out these files:
1. Launch AVG Cleaner for Mac. First,
click on the Scan now button in the
Duplicate Finder category.
2. AVG Cleaner for Mac then asks you which
folders to scan, for example: Hit the Open
button to scan your personal user folder for
duplicate downloads pictures, videos, music,
and more. We recommend diving deep into
your hard disk once in a while and just look
for duplicate files outside of the users folder
which may take up more time! To do that,
just select your Macintosh HD after you
clicked Scan Now.
3. AVG Cleaner for Mac now compares all the
files of your hard disk (on a very granular level!)
and checks if there are one or more duplicates...
4. Go to the list of duplicate files, check the ones
you don’t want anymore and hit the Clean button!
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The following three paragraphs will show what unneeded
duplicates and clutter AVG Cleaner for Mac removes:
Part 1: Application Cache
Most application that you actively use on your Mac computer create what’s called cache
and log files. Cache files are helpful, as they’re – sometimes – known to speed up the
application launch or boost web-browsing speed (i.e. Safari cache). Unfortunately, a lot
of apps don’t clean up their cache files when they’re no longer being used and this is
when the cache gets out of control:
• Old and corrupt cache files from previous app versions could cause errors when running
newer apps.
• Cache files could completely grow out of proportion. See this example of an app cache
that’s grown to 5 GB (article) and 50 GB (comment).
• Out of date cache files are forgotten on your hard disk and remain there forever, growing
and growing... We’ve dug deep into all the data drash found two lab machines give you an
example of how junk could affect your daily work routine.
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User Cache Files (Examples)
Uninstall Uninstalling an application doesn’t necessarily mean it’s completely deleted.
leftovers In some cases, the cache files remain in your users folder: e.g, on one of the
Mac computers in our lab, the DropBox cache was left behind even though
the application was uninstalled weeks ago. If you’ve installed and uninstalled
many programs over time, this will grow out of proportion...
Font lists Mac OS X stores lists of fonts inside the cache folder. If you’ve got problems
with fonts not showing up or still showing up (after you’ve deleted them), it’s
time to get rid of the font cache. But don’t worry; even if you clean up the
cache regularly, it will be built from scratch.
Browser Safari, Chrome, and Firefox store their temporary cache files and cookies in
Cache the users cache folder. To prevent this cache from growing and to protect your
privacy (basically your online habits are all located in that folder!), that cache
should be flushed out every once in a while.
History The user cache also contains browsing or file history of many applications
Lists Sneaky friends or co-workers with physical access to your Mac could browse
your recently visited websites in seconds, if you’re not watching! It may be
wise to flush this folder once in a while.
Application Skype, Messenger, and other chat
Images applications store avatar pics (of
yourself and your contacts) inside
the user cache folder.
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Part 2: Log files
Next to cache files, log files are some of the most commonly created files by Mac OS and many
applications. These can contain protocols of—for example—crashes, application restarts, last
update occurrences and so on….most of the log entries have one thing in common: No one
except professional developers or trained admins are able to get anything out of them.
Log Files (Examples)
Update logs Some applications create update logs that show when an app got updated
and whether that update was successful.
Crash files Applications tend to store crash data inside the hidden log folder. For example,
if your iPhone crashed, all crash data gets transferred to iTunes next time you
sync. This data is only useful if the crash was serious and you’d like an Apple
support person to have a look at it – otherwise it’s just a waste of space.
General logs Opened up a file in an application? It may get logged. Changed a setting?
That, too, may get logged – and never erased.
Part 3: Download & Trash folder
As mentioned above, the Download folder can accumulate Gigabytes of unnecessary files. Why?
Because it’s the users browsers default location for storing files – basically everything that’s
downloaded goes there, .dmg files, videos, pictures, documents. Meanwhile, many people forget
to empty the Trash folder, and it can become quite full over time.
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Compatible with OS X Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite and onwards,
AVG Cleaner™ for Mac provides MacBook®
, iMac®
and Mac Pro®
users with a simple and effective way to keep their favorite devices
running at peak performance.
AVG Cleaner for Mac, available to download for free from the Mac App Store, tackles
the invisible data trash and unwanted duplicate files that gather on a computer through
everyday usage, helping keep disk space available for storing precious photos, music and
other important files.
If you want all your devices, including PCs, Android and Macs, to be cleaned up and
optimized, you can get our AVG Performance subscription for [$39.99/year] for unlimited
devices. This includes all the PRO versions of our apps and PC tuning products.
5.4 How do I get AVG Cleaner for Mac
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The contact information below is provided in case you are working
with particular individuals or agencies on this review. If you have any
questions around AVG Performance 2015, AVG Cleaner for Android,
and AVG Cleaner for Mac please contact:
Sandro Villinger
sandro.villinger.contractor@avg.com
CHAPTER 6

Contact
Information
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