Walter Glenn

Glary Utilities

By Walter, March 2, 2009 11:33 pm

In my ongoing hunger for new utilities, I came across a free set of utilities I can’t believe I haven’t been using all along. Glary Utilities combines a number of different tools under a single interface.

Tools in Glary Utilities (by category):

Category	Tool	Description
Clean-Up & Repair	Disk Cleaner	Works much like the Disk Cleanup tool in Windows.
	Registry Cleaner	Purges Registry of things like missing extensions, bad shortcuts, and so on.
	Shortcuts Fixer	Corrects shortcut errors in Start menu and Desktop.
	Uninstall Manager	Let you uninstall programs, remove entries for programs that have been uninstalled but not properly removed, and even select multiple programs for a batch uninstall.
Optimize & Improve	Startup Manager	A great tool for exploring and removing startup programs. Unlike the msconfig tool built into Windows, this one provides information about the programs so you can make an informed decision about removing it.
	Memory Optimizer	Monitors and optimizes free memory.
	Context Menu Manager	Lets you manage the context menus (right-click menus) for files and folders in Windows Explorer.
	Registry Defrag	Defragments the Registry.
Privacy & Security	Tracks Eraser	Deletes cookies, Internet history, and so on.
	File Shredder	Permanently erases files.
	File Undelete	Retrieves accidentally deleted files.
	File Encrypter and Decrypter	Encrypts and decrypts files.
Files & Folders	Disk Analysis	Provides a graphical display of what files and folders are using up your disk space.
	Duplicate Files Finder	Creates a report of duplicate files.
	Empty Folders Finder	Finds empty folders on your system.
	File Splitter and Joiner	Allows you to split large files into a more manageable size and rejoin them later (say, for storing on a CD)
System Tools	Process Manager	Provides a more detailed look at running processes than Task Manager.
	Internet Explorer Assistant	Helps manage IE add-ons.
	Windows Standard Tools	Provides links to Windows tools, such as CheckDisk, System Restore, and so on.