Glary Utilities

Does this work for Vista as well? I don’t find this detail at http://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html.

Yes, it works very well. Very useful tool and free.

It works just fine, as Tech said

And from the web page I found this:

System Requirements

Glary Utilities is able to adapt to differing Windows versions and supports the following Windows releases: Windows 98, ME, 2000, 2003, XP, NT and Vista.

Minimal system configuration
Graphics mode 800x600 with 16-bit colors
20 MB free hard disk space at least
Intel Pentium or AMD K5 processor with 133 MHz
32 MB RAM

Recommended system configuration
Graphics mode 1024x768 with 32-bit color
30 MB or more free hard disk space
Intel Pentium 3/4 or AMD Athlon processor with 500 or above MHz
128 MB RAM or more
Internet access

It’s there…
http://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html
I’m running it… 8)

:slight_smile: Hi :

Would recommend you read what some “Microsoft Most Valuable
Professionals” had to say about Glary at
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?p=162095&sid=5f636c51542d32f482043de2c0e597a5 .

That’s an interesting read.


Yes, it is an interesting read. The diference I see is that Glary Utilities puts all this in one easy to use place instead of having hunt through Windows Program lists for what you need.

This is also why I use “Windows In A Box” for finding many useful things/programs/settings/information that are a part of Windows.


Indeed it’s not a toy… it’s for middle/advanced users.

Well it works fine on vista. However my xp machine, it deletes a dll or registry entry to that dll (I am not computer expert) file that has something to do with “HP Security Center”. Restore helped.

i will recommend to stay away from “glary utilities” or at least dont delete everything it recommends to delete to fix “errors” that doesnt exist. it removed alot but i couldnt see any performance improvement like i have done with ccleaner. ccleaner has made my computer faster sometimes.

this that was said in the aumha forums has happened to me.

Removes junk data from your disks and recovers disk space Dangerous: It also deletes any emtpy files and folders it finds. These are often critical to the working of many applications and should never be deleted in an automated way.
i was forced to format my computer after deleting empty folders with glary, programs tried to reinstall itselfs and other errors showed up on my computer after deleting the empty folders.

and memory optimizers like the one in glary has made my computer slower but i dont know how they work on other peoples computers.

freeramxp caused my computer to slow down dramatically.

Hi Maugrimx…

I didn’t know memory freeing utilities were needed for Windows beyond Windows 98 First Edition. ???

Best Regards…

they are useless, i was just trying different software to see if they improved my computer speed or make it more secure but some of the programs made a mess on the computer like online armor, norman antivirus, freeramxp and this “glary”. freeramxp made especially my computer startup slow and i couldnt find its uninstaller until i looked through its configuration screen and found out that i must inside there to uninstall it.
and registry cleaners have never stopped freezes on my computer like some of them claim to do. i use only the registry cleaner in ccleaner but can see no difference in speed or such when using it. maybe i should also uninstall this auslogics registry defrag too, it seems it does almost nothing to improve anything.

Please go over Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking Myths at http://lifehacker.com/5033518/debunking-common-windows-performance-tweaking-myths

i have to say that i don’t really know any program which doesn’t work under vista any more…
for nearly all software are updates or newer vista-compatible version available…
(just to declair that vista is great :wink: )

thanks, i can see this tuneup utilities is popular but it has so many useless tweaks that i cant even tell. disable this and disable that ::slight_smile: you can disable most of it within windows, like shadows under the mouse pointer and such wich when disabled should improve performance, it is WRONG. who pays for anything like that? not me. and i wouldnt download a cracked one either. it isnt so difficult to look at the settings in windows controlpanel and you dont have to pay for doing it. if i would have payed for anything then it would be avast. i will uninstall auslogics registry defrag as it takes up more space on the computer than its false performance improvements improve.

I like and use RegSeeker for its ability to clean out Old Start Menu items and Clean StreamMRU/Stream keys in Histories … then Clean the Registry followed by NTREGOPT then a reboot:
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt

i use to clean the registry too but i have to admit that it hasnt improved performance so very much but maybe a little, i mean cleaning with regseeker. ccleaner doesnt find so many registry keys so that is maybe why i havent seen performance improvement with the ccleaner registry cleaner.

have ntregopt improved your performance yokenny? i couldnt see any difference when i used it.

No, you’ve done it manually, you’ve started the scanning and set to delete them…
Glary Utilities is not a toy…

well, if it is so unsafe to delete what it finds then glary should at least show a warning. tuneup have never removed anything i have needed even if i wont recommend it anyway. it was probably my fault but i have to say that glary is useless, but if it works for you and if you like it then great :slight_smile: tuneup is on the top downloads on some torrent sites but it is not strange that they think they need something like tuneup because their computers is probably slowed down by trojans. i download torrents too but should probably stop downloading them. even music can infect you, it depends on what format there is on the music. i just burn to disc and dont execute them but that doesnt mean i am safe.

sorry for my english…

Yeah, it will be good… some (very few) empty folders are needed to correct functioning of some applications… But other functions of Glary are useful imho.