![]() Simpler one-click-fixes-all solutions exist, but if you’re willing to spend a little time learning all the tools in Glary Utilities, it’s a Swiss army knife that you’ll find useful time and again. It’s this extra level of depth that makes Glary Utilities an excellent choice for computer owners who know their way around their PCs and want to carefully manage the changes made by a tune-up app. For example, most system tune-up tools include a registry repair feature, but Glary Utilities breaks down the reported problems into groups and describes why the entry has been flagged as an issue, making it easier for you to decide what to do. It mostly excels at giving you control over what type of scan to perform and what to do with the reports generated. Glary Utilities isn’t as flashy as some other system maintenance and tune-up tools, but once you’ve accustomed yourself to the interface, you realize that it has many useful features that most of its competitors neglect. ![]() Like Glary Utilities, the paid edition includes the ability to schedule scans in advance or kick in only when it detects that it is needed. It does a particularly good job of cleaning up temporary and redundant files to help speed up Windows. It also has a neat Performance Monitor gadget with metrics on how your PC is performing.ĬCleaner Business Edition is a paid system maintenance utility that’s easy to use. It has a more modern interface, and its one-click Scan found more issues with our test computer than Glary Utilities did. IObit Advanced SystemCare Free is another comprehensive PC optimization tool. However, technical support is only officially available for the paid version of the software. We received replies to our queries within 12 hours. You can also email the Glarysoft support team through the website. Besides the useful, well-written articles with screenshots, there’s a General Feedback forum for highlighting issues or giving feedback. Glarysoft has a comprehensive FAQ and Knowledge Base for Glary Utilities. Glary Utilities Pro has more features than the free version, such as Automatic download update, to save you much time on downloading and keep you this software. There’s an excellent Knowledge Base supporting Glary Utilities (Image credit: Glary Utilities) Support ![]() Even the Update Manager tool works well, identifying 23 applications on our test computer that could be updated. ![]() It lists how many seconds each item is adding to your load time and details of what the program or task does. The Startup Manager of Glary Utilities is excellent, showing you a breakdown of all the startup programs, scheduled tasks, plugins, application services, and Windows services that might be slowing down the boot time of your computer. The files cleaner found over a gigabyte of temporary files to remove, which is on par with the rest of our testing. It does have basic skinning support, so you can choose the colors and background of the application, but it always looks professional. Many system maintenance and optimization tools have pointless widgets to make it appear as if they’re doing something more impressive than they are. Glary Utilities has a refreshingly simple interface. Love it.Advanced tools are listed in their own tab (Image credit: Glary Utilities) Interface and in use I've had one for years, and it just works. Whether or not you spring for the $10 per month Premier add-on, the Telo is awesome. That's the lowest price I've seen on the hardware, and you also get a wireless adapter that eliminates the need to run Ethernet cable to wherever you want to put the box. Not today: Meh has the refurbished Ooma Telo Classic for $65, plus $5 for shipping. And if you've tried perennial freebie fave CCleaner as well, let everyone know how this compares.īonus deal: Ooma is widely regarded as one of the best - if not the best - landline phone replacements, though the cost of entry is a little steep. ![]() If you've used Glary Utilities before, share your own feedback in the comments. You just never know when a system utility will cause a problem instead of solving it, and without a support lifeline, that could spell trouble. However, if you're a computer novice, you might want to steer clear. However, Windows 10's built-in options offer tools that replicate many of its basic, tune-up. Remember, Glarysoft hopes to count you among its paying customers someday. 3.0 Ashampoo WinOptimizer is an effective tune-up utility that gives your Windows PC a shot of new life. The giveaway nets you a lifetime license for a single PC, the only caveats being that you get neither free updates nor free support. ![]()
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