By David Nield
Publication Date: 2026-03-10 10:30:00
Microsoft Windows has been with us for more than 40 years at this point. Over that time it’s managed to gather all kinds of add-ons, companion apps, and utilities that you may not necessarily have discovered.
Some of these are made by Microsoft itself. There’s Microsoft PowerToys, for example, which lets you tweak everything from keyboard shortcuts to the layout of your desktop. There’s also Microsoft Journal, a journaling app designed primarily to be used with a stylus on Surface computers.
Here though we’re focusing on Microsoft PC Manager, which first appeared in beta form in 2022, and is now available for free to anyone who wants to give it a try. Microsoft promises it “effortlessly enhances PC performance with just one click,” and will “keep your PC running smoothly.”
In other words, it’s intended to clean up some of the clutter and baggage that your PC may have accumulated over the years—perhaps even giving it that “good as new” feeling you get when you boot a…
