Glary Utilities’ Ten Minutes July 23, 2008

(Windows only)

What it does: Glary Utilities is a system utilities suite for Windows, that provides tools for speeding up, fixing and cleaning your computer.

Installation is quick and painless. File size less than 6 MB. 1-Click maintenance lets you clean the registry, fix shortcuts, remove dangerous startup entries, clean temporary files, and remove spyware. (An optional extra is erasing activity and Internet traces.)

The thing takes about three minutes to run. I had recently run other software, but the software still found a bunch of problems:

I was particularly pleased it found the sneaky RealPlayer’s tkbell.exe file in my startup menu. I always hated that ridiculous program, with its silly and misleading name. Ugh. The whole cleanup took less than 4 minutes.

Glary includes a number of other utilities, all thrown in for free. (A $40 version gets you free support, enhanced fixing etc.)

Verdict: Impressive stuff. If you’re a Windows user, use it.

(Hat tip to LifeHacker.)