Right-click on the Recycle Bin, and you’ll be offered the chance to empty it securely. Like other system maintenance tools, Glary Utilities adds its own entries to the right-click context menu. The Uninstall Manager, found in Advanced Tools, could also have helped with this. Registry scanning is fast and thorough, and it found traces in our registry of applications we’d thought were long uninstalled. A column of simple tickboxes allows you to choose what the program will do, before clicking the big green Scan for Issues button to set it working. The One-Click Maintenance tab is where most of your time will be spent, unless there’s something in Advanced Tools that particularly needs fixing on your PC. In use, Glary Utilities is a very fast and straightforward program to use. Restart your PC with the app installed, and it will measure the time it takes for your computer to start up, measuring it against a database to conclude what percentage of other PCs yours is faster than. A system scan takes in a lot of information about your system, including whether updates are available for your installed applications. Unusually, it has its own spyware remover - something usually left to apps like MalwareBytes.

The subscription version has a few tricks that the free app can’t manage, such as wiping your temp files and internet history every time your machine is switched off, and automatically downloading updates, but there’s nothing there that makes a subscription a must-have if you don’t need it.Īs is common with system utilities like this, there’s a button to click that will analyse your computer and attempt to fix the most common problems it detects.

This gets you enough licenses to install the software on three PCs, useful if you have a small office to look after. If you’re going to use Glary Utilities for commercial reasons, you’ll need to subscribe - currently for around $20 a year.

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