It does what you should expect from a well known system cleaning type app -- some people love it & some hate it. IMHO this sort of app should only be used after performing a disk / partition image backup that you know you can restore, realizing that mileage will vary. Glary Utilities PRO adds the program's folder, a new folder in Program Files (x86)\ Common Files\, & a folder in Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Roaming\. I recorded 1100 new registry entries -- only a few were things like cache, so the app does make a small dent in your Windows install. The menu has an option to create a portable version, which is basically the entire app -- everything in the program's folder -- that runs with the notice that it's the free version rather than pro. You can register the portable version, at least today, but the registration itself is not portable -- copy it to another copy of Windows and it's once again the free version. Registration also appears to be unique for each copy of Windows -- you can copy everything, including registry entries, and it has no effect. The portable version does not add 1000+ registry entries like the installed version, but you lose the File Explorer context menus, and large portions of the registry are re-written, so there's a LOT of churn [FWIW I saved the new HKLM entries from just starting the portable version, & the .reg file is 143MB (!)]
Glary Utilities PRO
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