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What are utility softwares? These are softwares that help the user to do some tasks that are not provided by the Operating System. Now days, they usually come with the Operating System but they are developed by different companies. The following are some of the functions of utility softwares.

• When your data has been destroyed in any way, you can recover and restore the data by using data recovery utility software.
• Anti-virus softwares are also utility programs that can help protect your computer from dangerous viruses that can damage your system. Examples of those utilities are MacAfee anti-virus, Avira anti-virus, web scan, Norton anti-virus, AVG, and so on.
• We also have back-up utility softwares that can help back up you data so that incase your hard disk damages, you can still have your data back. An example of this utility is Colorado scheduler.
• Sometimes your data can take up a lot of space on your hard disk and leave a very less space available. You can use a data compression utility to compress your data and create more space on your hard disk. An example of this utility is pk zip.
• Sometimes, files can also be scattered in bits on your hard disk and therefore making it difficult to access them. You can therefore defragment those files by running a disk defragmenter utility. The utility usually brings the files together and arranges them in an adjacent manner therefore making it easier to access the files.

You can also run scan disk utility software to correct some hard disk errors.