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Should I remove WinUtilities Professional Edition?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
26% remove it74% keep it
Overall Sentiment
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How common is it?
Global Rank #40,313
United States Rank #40,372
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Versions

VersionDistribution
10.62 100.00%

WinUtilities 10.62 Professional Edition

What is WinUtilities Professional Edition?  (from YL Computing, Inc)

WinUtilities Pro contains utilities to clean registry, temporary files on your disks, erase your application, internet browser history, and cache and cookies. It also supports to defragment your disk drives and improve computer performance and stability. Built-in startup cleaner allows you to control startup programs t...  Read more

Overview

WinUtilities 10.62 Professional Edition is a program developed by YL Computing, Inc. During setup, the program registers itself to launch on boot through a Windows Schedule Task in order to automatically start-up. A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). The software installer includes 30 files and is usually about 21.02 MB (22,043,333 bytes). In comparison to the total number of users, most PCs are running the OS Windows 7 (SP1) as well as Windows 10. While about 44% of users of WinUtilities Professional Edition come from the United States, it is also popular in United Kingdom and Germany.

Program detailsProgram details

URL: www.ylcomputing.com
Help link: www.ylcomputing.com/content/view/14/33
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\WinUtilitiespro\
Uninstaller: "C:\Program Files\WinUtilitiespro\unins000.exe"
Estimated size: 21.02 MB

Program filesFiles installed by WinUtilities 10.62 Professional Edition

  • unins000.exe - Setup/Uninstall
  • WinUtil.exe (by YL Software) - WinUtilities
  • AppAutoShutdown.exe (by YL Software) - WinUtilities Auto Shutdown
  • CloseApps.exe - CloseApps Module (CloseApps)
  • Defrag.dll - WinUtilities DiskDefrag Module
  • DiskAnalytics.exe - WinUtilities Disk Analysis
  • ToolBHORemover.exe - WinUtilities BHO Remover
  • ToolDiskCleaner.exe - WinUtilities Disk Cleaner
  • ToolDiskDefrag.exe - WinUtilities DiskDefrag
  • ToolDocProtector.exe - WinUtilities Document Protector
  • ToolFileLock.exe - WinUtilities EXE Protect
  • ToolFileSplitter.exe - WinUtilities File Splitter
  • ToolFindDuplicate.exe - WinUtilities Duplicate Files Finder
  • ToolFixShortcut.exe - WinUtilities Shortcuts Fixer
  • ToolHistoryCleaner.exe - WinUtilities History Cleaner
  • ToolMemoryOptimizer.exe - WinUtilities Memory Optimizer
  • ToolProcessSecurity.exe - WinUtilities Process Security
  • ToolRegBackup.exe - WinUtilities Registry Backup and Restore
  • ToolRegDefrag.exe - WinUtilities RegistryDefrag
  • ToolRegistryCleaner.exe - WinUtilities Registry Cleaner
  • ToolRegistrySearch.exe - WinUtilities Registry Search
  • ToolSafeUninstall.exe - WinUtilities Uninstall Manager
  • ToolSchedule.exe - WinUtilities Task Scheduler
  • ToolSecureDelete.exe - WinUtilities File Shredder
  • ToolStartupCleaner.exe - WinUtilities Startup Cleaner
  • ToolSysControl.exe - WinUtilities System Control
  • ToolSysInfo.exe - WinUtilities System Information
  • ToolUndelete.exe - WinUtilities Undelete
  • ToolWinTools.exe - WinUtilities Windows Tools
  • unins001.exe

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

2 Scheduled Tasks
  • WinUtil.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{F3ADD449-1C11-42F4-873E-1377C58561A0}' (runs on registration).
  • ToolRegistryCleaner.exe is scheduled as a task named 'WinUtilities_Registry_Cleaner_D81CDF27E9284402' (runs weekly on Fridays at 12:10 PM).
Scheduled Task (Boot/Login)
  • ToolMemoryOptimizer.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named MemOptimizer-02BB2F56CB964deb8996194DE7EB5275.

How do I remove WinUtilities Professional Edition?

You can uninstall WinUtilities Professional Edition from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program WinUtilities 10.62 Professional Edition, click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove WinUtilities Professional Edition.

OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 50%
Win Vista (SP1) 2%
 
HOW IT STARTS
Scheduled task? Yes
(Runs on Windows boot)
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 26%
Keep it 74%

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 58.33%
Windows 10 22.92%
Windows XP 12.50%
Windows Vista 6.25%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 29.17%
Windows 7 Ultimate 20.83%
Microsoft Windows XP 12.50%
Windows 8 Pro 10.42%
Windows 7 Professional 6.25%
Windows Vista Home Premiu... 6.25%

Distribution by countryGeography

44.23% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 44.23%
  United Kingdom 7.69%
  Germany 3.85%
  Netherlands 3.85%
  Poland 3.85%
  Australia 1.92%
  Belgium 1.92%
  Finland 1.92%
  France 1.92%
  Greece 1.92%
  Indonesia 1.92%
  India 1.92%
  IQ 1.92%
  Italy 1.92%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 29.73%
Acer 18.92%
Dell 16.22%
GIGABYTE 8.11%
Lenovo 8.11%
Medion 8.11%
ASUS 5.41%
Sony 2.70%
NEC 2.70%
Common models
MSI MS-7592 5.26%
Dell Inspiron 1525 5.26%
Sony SVE1511SAC 2.63%
powerspec8924a P4M266A-82... 2.63%
Packard Bell EasyNote LV4... 2.63%
NEC PC-LL750AS6B 2.63%

About (from YL Computing, Inc)

We are one of the original manufacturers and vendors of our software and related products.
Publisher URL: www.ylcomputing.com

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Father Richardover a year ago
Great program. Has helped me keep my computer fairly problem free. Got the bought version and love it.