In another nod to more classical UI design, the Advanced Tools tab has two views: verbose (pictured above) and condensed (pictured below) which can be toggled by clicking on the two dots at the right side of the window. The second is by clicking the Advanced Tools tab.

The first is by clicking the arrow on the first Overview page. There are two ways to access the full suite of tools offered by Glary Utilities Pro. Its User Interface, or UI, is clean and harkens back to a more classic design with squared edges and lots of iconized buttons with context boxes that appear when you hover the mouse over them. Where it’s also used by laypeople, I’d expect clear explanations of what the product does. As a technology professional, I need to know why I need the product and what it does for me. Clear and Straightforward Presentationįor tools like Glary Utilities Pro, which aggregate inbuilt Windows functions and scripts, presentation is everything. Let’s see how it lives up to that description and some of the key ways it streamlines that. It’s billed as both a computer cleaner and optimizer.

Glary Utilities Pro is a toolset and function aggregator for numerous unique and handy Windows maintenance tools. Are they still relevant two decades later? Detailed Review of Glary Utilities Pro

Products like Glary Utilities and CCleaner were novel and unique in that space and performed well. Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP were all susceptible to performance degradation and conflicts as a result of disorganized software registries.įor those operating systems, it was much more important to understand how to properly uninstall software and also scrub their registry entries. I got my start in technology in the 90s by tinkering on my family’s computer and then my own.

It’s what makes a rewarding and fulfilling career in technology both a blessing and a curse. I also tend to do amateur tech support for my friends and family. I’m Aaron, an information security and information technology professional.

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