Microsoft is preparing a free tool called PC Manager to clean and optimize Windows, like CCleaner and other similar utilities. If it doesn’t bring anything really new, it brings together scattered functions in a clear and practical way.
For decades, Windows users have relied on specialized utilities to clean up Windows and breathe new life into their PCs. CCleaner, CleanMyPc, iObit Advanced System Care… these names of software dedicated to cleaning Windows are among the best known and represent only a tiny part of the utilities designed to clean the Microsoft system of elements that could slow it down. However, many of them only implement within a single interface functions already present in Windows but scattered all over the system.
So, since everything is already there, why not bring it all together in one place? And who better than the very designer of the system could take care of it? This is what Microsoft seems to want to achieve, which has been testing a new tool called PC Manager for several months, as discovered by the authors of the Italian blog Aggiornamenti Lumia and the specialists of Windows Latest. the publisher’s Chinese site even offers a public beta version of the software which would also be available on the Microsoft Store (but for the moment still hidden), but it seems very difficult to install. Better to wait for an official final version on the French Microsoft Store before trying it.
PC Manager: all Windows cleaning and optimization functions gathered
The tool designed by Microsoft therefore offers fairly standard Windows cleaning functions. There is a function for managing storage space, optimizing performance which rids the memory of unnecessary elements, purging temporary files, deleting applications and even a “boost” function in one click.
The updating of drivers and applications, anti-virus checks are also included. However, PC Manager does not clean the Windows registry. Everything is therefore concentrated in the same interface and Microsoft does not hesitate either to issue some security advice which necessarily works to its advantage, such as encouraging the use of its Edge browser rather than Chrome, for example. You are never better served than by yourself!
No release date for PC Manager has yet been announced. The tool can be expected to integrate one of the upcoming Windows updates through Windows Update. This utility should logically be free, which will avoid having to pay for commercial tools – like the full version of CCleaner. And if the experts will probably prefer to continue using their usual tools, we can only rejoice at the idea that Microsoft finally offers a simple and practical tool which centralizes in a single place all the functions allowing to clean and optimize Windows , rather than scattering them in corners of the system that are difficult to find…