Any system improvements are often very difficult to verify or justify in time and energy spent assessing performance gains.Ĭons: The registry cleaner is unreliable, It broke several file associations and VBA funtionality in Office 2010. Glary Utilities good (the best) easy and free. I use only a fraction of the tools offered.Have installed Glary utilities on both my XP PCs and it is a treat to use.For me the 4 best features are the:ġ) One Click Optimise/Fix when I don't have time to do anything else,Ģ)Process Manager, which has allowed me to finally get rid of an old version of mcafee internet suite which I couldn't delete any other way and which continued to hog resources despite umpteen previous attempted deletions,ģ)Memory Optimiser, which will sit in the system tray only using minimal resources compared with other optimisers which are more trouble than they are worth.

Advanced tools include a Startup Manger (much easier to use than Windows'), Context Menu Manager, Uninstall Manager (better than Windows' but not as aggressive as CCleaner), Software Update Checker and Updater (the Updater is optional), plus many more. I don't use Shortcuts Fixer (it deletes empty folders I don't always want deleted), Disk Repair (don't trust it), and Tracks Eraser (I prefer to do that manually within my browser). You can pick and choose what scans you want it to do in its 1-Click maintenance I only use the Registry Cleaner, the Spyware Remover (it never finds anything because I don't run Glary until after I've done my other malware scans but it's a nice backup), Temporary Files Cleaner, and Startup Manager. As a registry cleaner, however, Glary Utilities is very conservative, deleting only entries that point to nowhere. Also, CNET is a dodgy source for downloads.Ī lot of people automatically distrust registry cleaners (usually for good reason). However, other than some functions being automated (ones I would rather use manually so I can decide if I want deletions to happen or not) and scans being faster (it's already pretty fast), I see little incentive to get the Pro, even if the license is free and lifetime. I have been using Glary Utilities free for years, have been happy with it, and prefer it infinitely to CCleaner (I use CCleaner only for wiping and torture testing HDDs).

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