Why do users keep searching for and installing maintenance applications? The answer is simple: Windows has performance issues, some of them historical. Ideally Microsoft would solve them once and for all, but instead of following that path, it decided to join the ranks of automatic apps with a development called PC Manager. Its installer comes from Microsoft China, it's in beta, and it brings some quite curious "repair" options…
Unfortunately, Windows often escapes its performance limitations by shifting all the responsibility onto the user... who ends up applying pure brute force: more cores, more RAM, video acceleration, solid-state drives, more hardware. But budget problems are real, and there are many people out there who have to work with what they have. That means following the path of optimization, seeking more efficient programs, tweaking in the background, and removing bloatware.
Many parallel developments do that work automatically, but the novelty is that Microsoft is offering its own tool through its Chinese portal. The application in question is called PC Manager, and it presents itself as an equivalent to CCleaner or BleachBit, with options to disable startup apps, clean temporary files, purge the Windows Update cache, and, as it couldn't be otherwise... make Edge the default browser.
PC Manager: Maintenance App or an Ad for Edge?
Those interested should visit the official PC Manager page and click the blue button. The text indicates that PC Manager is compatible with Windows 10 1809 or higher, and its initial installer takes up less than six megabytes. Its main categories are Health Check for verifying the overall state of the computer, Storage Management for managing drive space, Process Manager that monitors loaded processes, and Startup Apps, where we can disable programs that start with Windows.
But the most striking thing about PC Manager is its list of "potential problems": resetting Edge as the default browser. Obviously we don't see that as a problem, and the reasons the public rejects Edge are more than obvious (to begin with, Redmond turned it into a carnival full of bloatware).
Personally I see no reason to recommend PC Manager, but we'll keep the radar on in case the project finds a new home in Microsoft's Western portals. If you want to try it anyway, you should know the software is in beta, and it refused to work on half of our machines (including two virtual environments with fresh Windows 11 installs). Tread carefully.
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