Glary Utilities Portable

by: CNET staff on October 17, 2011

Glary Utilities is one of the most consistently recommended freeware system maintenance suites, and our experience with it suggests such confidence isn't misplaced. It combines a Registry Cleaner, Shortcuts Fixer, Startup Manager, Temporary Files Cleaner, Tracks Eraser, Spyware Remover, and much more in one compact interface. Glary Utilities Portable is a full-featured portable freeware version of Glary Utilities. It can run for portable drives on any compatible Windows PC, making it a great addition to portable PC toolkits.

We extracted Glary Utilities Portable and clicked the executable file, which ran the program without requiring an installation process. A simple interface offers four tabs: Status, showing version and license information; 1-Click Maintenance, with selectable tools; Modules, which accesses a wide range of tools individually; and Menu, which opened an Explorer menu accessing the Restore Center, Help, Settings, Skins, and more. The 1-Click Maintenance tool let us select which cleaners to include in the process. The Modules tab offered multiple tools under sections labeled Clean Up & Repair, Optimize & Improve, Privacy & Security, Files & Folders, and System Tools, which accesses not only a Process Manager, IE Assistant, and System Information tool but also many useful built-in Windows Standard Tools such as CheckDisk, System File Checker, System Restore, and Backup. The Settings included a long list of commands we could add to right-click menus in Windows Explorer, an Ignore List, and other options.

We ran a scan, which identified the number of problems found in each tool. Clicking Show Details opened pop-ups with detailed information about each entry plus the option to deselect it for cleaning. When we were satisfied, we clicked Repair Problems. When the cleaning finished, we could press Scan for Issues to check for additional errors. Like the installed version, Glary Utilities Portable cleaned and spiffed up our system while doing it no wrong. Used wisely, it's an effective system maintenance solution that includes many useful extras.

Glary Utilities Portable helps you with one click a day for PC maintenance, keeps any PC problems away, with its 100 safe, thorough and quick cleaning and worry-free restoration. Glary Utilities is a freeware with registry and disk cleaning, privacy protection, performance accelerator and amazing multifunctional tools. It can fix dogged registry errors, wipe off clutters, optimize internet speed, safeguard confidential files and maintain maximum performance. It is designed for both novice and professionals. User-friendly interface shows clear and detailed directions.

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Glary Utilities Slim

by: CNET staff on February 01, 2012

Glary Utilities has a good reputation among users who need safe and reliable system cleaning and maintenance in an easy-to-use package. Glary Utilities Slim is a freeware bundle of Glary's disk and registry cleaners and other system tools. It also enables easy, centralized access to a number of built-in Windows tools. Some of its features you'll only need once or twice a year, like an oil change; others are for regular duties. It slims the package by leaving out some automatic and duplicate features.

Glary Utilities Slim bears a strong family resemblance because it shares the family interface. The compact interface is tabbed along the top for Status, 1-Click Maintenance, Modules, and Menu, which accesses the Restore Center, Help, FAQs, Settings, Skins, and more. After checking for updates to make sure we had the latest definitions, we moved to the 1-Click Maintenance page, which offered check boxes for the Registry Cleaner, Shortcuts Fixer, Startup Manager, Temporary Files Cleaner, Tracks Eraser, and Spyware Remover. The Tracks Eraser lets you choose which programs and features to clean. The program offered to clean Windows, IE, and Firefox, including plug-ins, but not Chrome. We've run Glary's tools often. The scan returned Details for all the results it found; we simply deselected those we wanted to keep. Clicking Repair Problems fixed everything we left checked. The Modules tab enables individual access to Glary's scanning and cleaning tools but also many extras: Startup Manager, Context Menu Manager, File Shredder, File Undelete, Encryption and Decryption, Splitting and Joining, and access to Windows tools like Check Disk and Disk Defragment.

What's left out? Well, a separate disk defragmenter, for starts. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are the future, and many users already use SSDs for Windows and hard disk drives (HDDs) for storage. You should never defragment an SSD, which doesn't become fragmented. The disk defragmentation tool built into Windows does a swell job, so there's no need to include one in Glary Utilities Slim. A better question might be, what more do you need? Chances are, if it's not in the Slim version, it's in the Pro upgrade.

Glary Utilities Slim helps you with one click a day for PC maintenance, keeps any PC problems away, with its 100 safe, thorough and quick cleaning and worry-free restoration. Glary Utilities is a freeware with registry and disk cleaning, privacy protection, performance accelerator and amazing multifunctional tools. It can fix dogged registry errors, wipe off clutters, optimize internet speed, safeguard confidential files and maintain maximum performance. It is designed for both novice and professionals. User-friendly interface shows clear and detailed directions.

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