Thursday, October 27, 2011

The Garbage Hunter - Glary Utilities

Is your computer completely free of unused/temporary files, and garb(age) free? I doubt it. Most people have tons of garb all over their hard drives and don’t even know about most of it, or even where to look to find it all. Here is a simple way to have a small and free program (8.46MB) do all the searching for you. I stumbled across Glary Utilities recently and it found a ton of nonsense on my computer and fixed and/or erased it and cleared up several gigs of hard drive space! Very nice! Glary Utilities checks all sorts of ways to improve your computers efficiency and remove all that excess garb. This can be done through Glary Utilities 1-Click Maintenance which can clean your registry, fix shortcuts that don’t work, clean dangerous startup entries, clear out your temporary files, and remove spyware all in one full sweep. It is pretty sweet and it works with any windows 2000 or beyond.



To begin this garbage hunt click on the 'Scan For Issues' button under the 1-Click Maintenance tab and let Glary do its magic. So here is what happened when I did the 1-Click Maintenance…



Wow. That is a lot of garb! 625 problems with my registry?! 21 Shortcuts are messed up, almost 2 gigs of temp files?! That’s crazy talk. Once all of the issues have been identified, click on the 'Repair' button and as many of the issues as can be fixed will be done automatically.




This whole search took about 5 minutes and it cleared up a bunch of space and fixed corrupt links and more so definitely worth it!
Glary Utilities also has a Modules tab with several submenus that can be accessed in order to do more specific searches or search manually to fix your issues if you don’t want it all done at once as well. All in all a great program!


Download from cnet: Glary Utilities

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