Review of Glary Utilities

Glary Utilities didn't seem bad at first but some of the functions don't really do anything accept make users that don't understand how certain things work feel better. For example, a registry cleaner will have 0% impact on system performance unless you are using something like Windows 95 and a very small amount of RAM. Registry size and duplicate or empty registry keys don't slow things down any more. Computers have gotten much faster since this was an issue back in the mid to late 90's. 

When I got a better look at Glary Utilities I decided to advise people to stay clear of it. All in one utility packages like this contain a lot of filler and techno babble with very little substance. A large majority of the functions either do nothing to help or even worse create other problems that may not be immediately evident.

Glary Utilities contain these functions which have been shown time and time again to be useless or even harmful in many cases (some of this is included in the "1 click maintenance" option):

• Registry Repair
• Registry Cleaner (Potentially dangerous & does nothing to speed up your computer)
• Registry Defrag (Useless for any computer less than 15 years old with Windows XP or higher)
• Software Update (Third party software hosted at their own site, better, safer and more accurate to just download from actual publisher.)
• Defrag (Already handled automatically and better by Windows. Usage may result in file system errors.)
• Memory Optimizer (Snake oil. Third party utilities do not and will not optimize your ram. They actually serve to slow your computer down.)

If you gain any improvement it was from one of the functions duplicated by Glary Utilities that are already built into Windows. Any thing else helpful in Glary Utilities is handled better by various stand alone utilities.