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 (opens in new tab) 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 (opens in new tab) 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. 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.

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