Microsoft PC Manager - one-click speed boosts, full system check-ups, virus removals and more

No issues thus far. It kind of centralises various Windows utilities you need to search for separately on Windows 10/11. The price? FREE!

 

There's an existing thread about it.
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...tem-check-ups-virus-removals-and-more.448405/

 

Microsoft's official app for improving performance in Windows 10 and 11 lands in the store
Feb 7, 2024
https://www.neowin.net/news/microso...ance-in-windows-10-and-11-lands-in-the-store/

 

Downloading not available.

 

Firefox does not give me a button to install app from store.
Edge Gives me a greyed out button saying 'Coming Soon'
Must be my version of win 11, which is the developers insider build 23620.1000

 

From the comments (Aryeh Goretsky) =

Hello,

I had written about why this program exists earlier on Neowin, so I do not want to repeat that. But since the program is now in the Microsoft Store, though, I thought I would take a look at that version. I just did that, and I found a couple of curious things about it:

1. Under Storage → Deep cleanup → System cleanup, there is an option to delete the items in the Windows Prefetch directory. Microsoft has long warned users and developers of cleaner/performance/tweaking tools to not remove the files in this directory as they are managed by the Windows operating system's prefetcher and the operating system should be allowed to manage it. This application not only has the option to delete the files in this directory, it even says "These files do not need to be kept." in the description. This represents a complete turnaround on Microsoft's guidance of leaving the system prefetcher alone, which has been their advice since the Windows XP days.

2. Despite ostensibly being a Microsoft application, under Toolbox → Custom links this program recommends/links to two Chinese websites, https[:]//www[.]officeplus[.]cn/ppt-assistant/?source=OPCNPCMPromotion and https[:]//www[.]kingpdf[.]cn/?tid1=268&tid2=2 (URLs obfuscated to prevent accidental click-thru). The former offers some kind of PowerPoint assistant for making slide decks, and appears to be operated by a company named Microsoft Mobile Lianxin Internet Services Co., Ltd., which sounds like a Chinese joint-venture of Microsoft's. The latter appears to be operated by a company named Hainan Chuangye Star Technology Co., Ltd. and offers a PDF editor that appears to copy Microsoft Word's user interface and PDF editing functionality. Looking at these URLs, they both appear to contain some kind of referral code links, which could mean that Microsoft, or at least the author(s) of this application, are collecting some revenue from visits to or purchases made through those web pages.

Based on these two observations, I would be very cautious about installing this application, even though it is published directly from Microsoft.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

 

It's probably not worth the resources it uses but I think too much is made of the prefetch thing. Even if you delete the entire contents of that folder Windows will just recreate the items it needs by the next reboot. It doesn't really speed things up much and in some cases slows things down. I'd prefer to disable it altogether but they have made it very difficult to do in recent versions of Windows.

 

i wont touch prefetch as long i use my portables which are not often used so prefetch has no impact on those. for my regular programs i stay away - as written was a long time rumor. but i would bet that win10/11 have now other routines for this. anyhow i ditched the pc manager because useless/pointless, just another tuner/cleaner with side effects which can make windows unstable.

 

Upgraded to the official stable version through the Microsoft Store.

 

I am having the very same thing but I am on the latest general release build of Win 11...so there seems to be something wrong somewhere, that they need to fix.

 

i have read about this weeks ago, seems to be a local country issue. DE wont let it, but EN-US did.