#Glary utilities review pro#

Although I use CCleaner at boot time primarily to remove accumulated 'temp' files and browsing histories not configurable in some browsers (Google Chrome).

#Glary utilities review pro#

It took several hours to restore a previously working Windows 7 Pro laptop to a state prior to using GL 5.15 via a known working 'system image'.I won't be trying GL again! It's not worth any highly unlikely system improvements. To be clear, over the many years I have used CCleaner, I have yet to resort to using a registry restore on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 & 8.1 on Desktops to laptops. I will stick to CCleaner which has a much less aggressive 'registry cleaner' and defaults to an easily restoreable registry backup in the event things go wrong. Sadly this has not changed with my experience for GL then and now.

Luckily I am regimented to always make a current 'system image' prior to using such potentially dangerous tools. Sadly unless a registry backup is made (no prompt to do so) it may be very difficult to restore the registry and hence the system to a working state prior to running the 'one click maintenance' option in GL. All that was via the 'one click maintenance option', let alone 'in depth cleaning', meaning a novice can easily break a working system. It 'broke' essential file associations in several programs including MS Office 2010 where VBA functionality also broke. That has not changed with the current version 5.15 on Windows 7.

My experience with early versions of GL were a disappointment. Be very careful with programs that clean the Registry.