A System Utility is any software that helps manage and optimize your computer system, including the Registry, start-up applications, desktop, and other settings. The software in this catalog may clean your local drives, create backups and recover lost files, improve system performance, securely delete documents, and monitor your hardware.

In this article, we’ll see 3 of the Web’s most downloaded and popular system utilities.

1. Advanced SystemCare Free

Weighing in at first place, raking in 36,806,594 downloads of all time and almost 1 million downloads just this week is Advanced SystemCare Free. They automate pretty much every aspect of cleaning up your machine. It is geared toward non-technical people so you should not be intimidated by it.

2. Smart Defrag

Smart Defrag helps you automate your defragmentation process so you do not have to remember to do it! I remember when this was an all day event – now with this free application it is a breeze to set and forget.

3. Glary Utilities

A suite of utilities that will help you keep your system spick and span. There are options in here to securely delete your files as well as see what is starting up with your computer (and stop it!)