Glary Utilities is a free toolbox for your computer. It comes with some very useful features to help you in cleaning and maintaining your computer to run at it�s most optimal performance. Here are some of the useful features.
1-Click Maintenance
Scans your registry for invalid and incorrect entries, cleans up invalid shortcuts, dangerous startup items, temporary files, activity history and spyware.
Disk Cleaner, Registry Cleaner, Shortcuts Fixer
There are all executed in the 1-Click Maintenance. You can also run them manually if you wish.
Uninstall Manager
Allows you to quickly see what programs you have installed and uninstall them one by one or in a batch. The only extra feature this uninstaller has that the Windows uninstaller does not is to remove uninstallers. This can be handy if a certain uninstaller no longer works and is �stuck� in the list. I would recommend to use Revo Uninstaller instead though.
Startup Manager
Lists all the startup entries from your startup folder and registry. You can easily disable entries by unchecking the box or delay entries so that they start a bit later to speed up your boot.
Memory Optimizer
Automatic optimize your memory and runs in the background. Not the best memory optimizer in my opinion and not very useful if you have over 2Gb of ram. If you believe you need a good memory optimizer, then I would recommend Cleanmem. It�s faster, and a lot more efficient.
Context Menu Manager
The more programs you install, the longer your context menu becomes (right-click menu on desktop / a file or folder). Many times there are entries in this menu that you would never use and you have to look though all the useless options to find the one that you do want to use. With the context menu manager you can disable those entries that you do not need.
Registry Defrag
Check for registry errors and defragment your registry. This can improve performance as the system does not have to look though a fragmented registry and thus it can find what it is looking for a lot faster.
Tracks Eraser
Optionally comes with the 1-Click Maintenance (disabled by default). Cleans up your personal activity history on your computer.
File Shredder
Allows you to delete files and folders without being able to recover them by any means.
File Undelete
Allows you to undelete files that you have accidentally deleted using the �delete� function from Windows and cannot find the file in the recycle bin. The File Undelete will not work if you deleted files with the File Shredder.
File Encrypter and Decrypter
Can encrypt and decrypt files and folders and create self-extracting encrypted executable files. The encryption uses the Blowfish algorithm.
Disk Analysis
Shows you the disk space usage of your files and folders and allows you to explore and delete. Personally I would recommend using Space Monger as it is highly intuitive and you can clearly see what uses most of the space on your disk by using a �bird�s eye� view of your disk, rather than an explorer like structure.
Duplicate Files Finder
Could be useful if you know that you probably have duplicate files somewhere. However I would not recommend using it on your entire system as sometimes certain programs come with self-repairing backups of their own files and these are seen as duplicate files (which they are). These files are needed for self-preservation though.
Empty Folders Finder
This is a very handy tool that searches for folders that are empty and allows you to remove them. Why keep empty boxes if you no longer need them?
Files Splitter and Joiner
This allows you to split large files and join them again. This can be very handy if you have limited space on your portable media disks (like floppy or zip disks).
Process Manager
Like the Windows Task Manager but more intuitive. Shows you a �threat� level progress bar that indicates if the process is harmful or not and allows you to quickly lookup the process on Google, kill it or block it. I prefer to use Anvir Task Manager though as it has a lot more features and can monitor and prompt for new found startup entries.
Internet Explorer Assistant
Very useful tool if you are a frequent Internet Explorer user. This tool allows you to clean up toolbars, addons, context menu entries, etc� Use this tool if your Internet Explorer is �hijacked� by malware (startup page is changed, search provider, popups, etc�) Personally I prefer using FireFox with Adblock Plus and other addons to greatly enhance my browsing experience.
System Information
Gives you information on your hardware. What type of Graphics card do you have, Windows information, etc�
Windows Standard Tools
Quick access to built in Windows tools like �CheckDisk, Disk Defragmenter", System Restore, System File Checker and Backup�.
