This software was made for one purpose: to promote Edge and Bing. Some users might accidentally chose another browser, PC manager aims to fix it. And it can search for duplicates for some reason. 😁
Was the only way to fix setting brave and DuckDuckGo default. Tried other ways but this helped as well as few other things. So t have to dl 3rd party boosters or cleaners bc most cost or scam.
One of the issues with this software is that it claims your pc is needing repaired if you are not using Edge and Bing search (this is total rubbish because a pc needing repaired shouldn't be associated with what browser and search engine you use). Thanks for sharing this video.
Yeah, Its just MS Bullcrap. Using the browser of your choice, is not an error to be repaired. Apart from that Issue, I like how you can free up memory, and delete Temp Files quickly.
I have my own version. A complete re-install every 6 months. That also gives me the option to remove crapware I have learned about since last re-install. As we know, a lot of the crapware is difficult to get rid of, once it has sneaked onto the drive.
Edge is good. I dont get why it gets so much hate. Ive went from brave to edge suprisingly. I feel like people should use windows how they would use a macbook now since microsoft seems to be going in that direction. Edge is as fast as every other browser if not faster.
I actually still like CCleaner in its portable and free form with all preferences set to absolute minimum. It's handy for keeping an overview on any unwanted startup entries that often creep in from time to time. I agree that registry cleanups can be dangerous and unnecessary but I think CCleaner takes a far less aggressive approach and has never caused any issues for me on many PCs over many years. I also agree that the Microsoft offering has very little merit.
This is an app to centralise all the built-in Windows utilities in one place. It may work for some and not for others. Whether you want to use PC Manager is up to you.
I used CCleaner once upon a time because of the convenience it provided to clear junk files, cache, etc, etc, etc, from one location. Something the OS should do, eh? But I gave it up once it became a source of pop-ups and other annoyances -- the usual "evolution" of so much similar software. So MicroSoft is now providing such an app? Could be useful as a CCleaner replacement, but surely it should simply be a built-in function of the OS!
PC Manager Pop-up Plan is not more popups, it is allowing users to participate in the submission of screenshots of unwanted popups that cannot be disabled which makes the popup blocker more effective.
Right?!? Why would he assume it’s promoting pop ups when it has a setting to block them. I’m no micro$oft fan, but common sense is sometimes missing in action.
@@Ryotsu2112 Because he says that he is not going to turn it on and then he says, "One minute they are trying to stop popups and then next minute they want to give you more popups". listen at around the 3:17 .
I remember in the early exciting days of Pc’s a lot of these types of utilities popped up with the most famous being Norton but soon many of them, began to be seen as bloatware as most became less favorable by not being as effective as marquee programs such as disk optimization, disk or file recovery, data backup, virus removal.
I have tried this quite a bit, especially when it was still in beta. I still prefer Bleachbit, Privazer (since it also includes Windows's built-in Disk Cleanup) and henrypp's Mem Reduct to keep the memory down. I also of course use DefenderUI which you have already covered at least once.While PC Manager includes a memory feature, you can't customize how often it cleans or the limit before it cleans. Plus PC Manager, like Microsoft Defender, uses a lot of memory and slows things down compared to the other programs. Maybe Microsoft will change more in the future.
MS PC Manager is less likely to break your OS than CCleaner as it's obviously optimized, but it's still proprietary. My personal recommendation is a FOSS alternative like BleachBit (which I heard you personally use), it won't touch things that are easily broken, it doesn't track you, and it's not bundled with bloatware and malware.
I have a different problem, I "upgraded" my brand-new Dell XPS 8960 Windows 11 23H2 to Windows 10 22H2 eliminating a 4 Month nightmare of blue screens and crashes. The computer on Windows 10 "finally" was running smoothly. This afternoon 12 PM Sunday June 2, 2024, local Montreal time. Updates were needed and lo and behold when it was all finished, I was on Windows 11 24H2! How did Microsoft manage to bypass all of my registry hacks to infect my computer with Windows 11 24H2? My intention is to stay on Windows 10 and when support runs out, move to Linux.
Real simple, Microsoft just resets all your "illegal" registry hacks back to THEIR default. I'm still using Windows 8.1 and have eliminated all programs that bug me with "You need Windows 10". To this day I'm still using Office 2013 without any problems, I've got a lot of software that I pirated 15 years ago that worked under Windows XP and is till working under Windows 8.1. Chrome was replaced with Firefox without any issues and my default search engine is Duckduckgo. According to Facebook I'm an 102 year old Punjabi that lives in India but daily commutes to New York for my daily job.
I use CCleaner for registry optimization. Everything else is just bonus cleanup convenience. So this software is only for cleanup and other conveniences, but doesn’t replace CCleaner for my uses.
@@ghostdragon2593 it’s not at all risky since it backs up your registry before cleaning. If there’s any problems you just restore from the backup. I’ve been doing this since CCleaner was a new thing with no problems.
@@nenume00 it’s not cleaning, it’s a registry optimization. Believe it or not, windows doesn’t keep everything optimized, and installed software doesn’t always clean up after itself. Your registry can get messy. That being said, it’s not really as much of a problem now days as it used to be and I haven’t used anything like CCleaner for that purpose in quite a while. So your point is partly taken, even tho it was delivered dickish.
I rarely see ads popup in windows. Often it's right after a clean install of windows I'll see "ads" but they are just ads for MS Office, and Edge, not ads for other products like you see everywhere else on the internet.. and they seem to go away after the first week or so.. Probably because I'll go though a set of changes and tweaks, and run scripts that may be removing that, and disabling telemetry.
Hello Brian, I have enjoyed your videos for a couple of months now, and have applied several of your advised recommendations, fixes and expertise to my (old, 2015) Windows 10 home laptop. Thank you! Just one small request though... It might be helpful to those of us with aging eyesight issues, if it'd be possible to use a larger, coloured mouse arrow with a trailing edge in order to follow along on the page together with you, as you are moving it around from place to place.
I don't see the point of the boost button it all comes back in seconds. it wants me to reset the start page to new tab & change the search engine back to Bing in Edge. As if I'm going to do that.🤣
I use Treesize Free. I had something similar in s/w that backup'd to VHS tape, but this scans your drive(s), and shows a full directory tree, and if you click on the 'size' column, it sorts the tree by size, so you can see where all the large folders are, and if you expand that line, what's inside. It doesn't auto-find the largest files, if they're a single file in a single folder, but it usually identifies the big folders where big files tend to be, so backing those up can release space quickly. It does drag&drop from its own window, and it's quick, so handy for some file shuffling, as-is.
They add the metro bloat with one hand and will boost with the other. I suspect this program eats non-trivial amount of memory, and loading it on startup would be counter to its stated goals. The window has the aspect ratio of a pocket telephone, and Google-like widgets.
I have found that programs like this is like what you said - it's a plucebo . Hard ware of your system like Ram and Processors need to be high speed and is balance of each other. Meaning that you cant have slow ram and a fast processor or the other way around of a slow processor and fast ram. Here's an example { Acer E15 / E5-521 with AMD with a 4core 4threads and DDR4 Ram } which came out in 2014 - was not tooo bad but - it now struggles with Linux and cant play 1080 video on youtube, only 480 to 720 at best. Now its replaced by a i3 by Intel with 8 cores and 8 threads with DDR5 ram and this set up can play all the resolutions with no problem no stuttering or lagging . So I think hardware has a great deal to do with how smoothly and responsiveness a system really is. All a cleaner does is make more room on your hard drive with little performance improvements but not by much...
Back in the days of mechanical harddrives, you could get a boost if you hadn't cleaned out temporary system files or temporary internet files for about a year. But with SSD's, you'll hardly feel any performance impact, before you run out of space.
call me cynical but.. It is one of those programs that really want you to put Microsoft back in the driving seat.. making Edge the default under the guise of giving your PC a boost etc?
The boost feature works great. It clears the memory of unnecessary processes. I use virtual desktop and this feature shortens the lag time of switching between desktops. Without it, I needed to reboot the PC once a week.
Clearing cache will make your PC run slower.. idk why people think this makes your PC faster since deleting cache defeats the ENTIRE purpose of data cashes, which is to make your PC run faster, DUH. Because thew apps that rely on that cache have to rebuild that cache in order to operate, thus it runs slower. This only makes sense if said cache is old data for old applications you're not using anymore, even then all you're really doing is clearing up drive space.
I notice the positive wording for 'resolved' MS choices, and doubt-seeding options for non-MS choices. Marketing has penetrated totally into the tweaker experience.
I like PC cleaner. Been using it for a while and I really like it. It's improved a lot and although it doesn't touch the registry and does everything else very well! For me it is far better than ccleaner.
the built in disk cleaner is all we need unless wanna clean more stuff then just use bleach bit but disk cleaner is already 90% of what most users need to be honest
I've noted tips you gave to clean my system with the stock microsoft tools on a .txt file and it works well for me. After a few times, I remember where to go without reading my .txt file. No added software and I prefer to run these manually then a software scheduling it. When i am mixing or recording, I want minimal system ressources to be used. I think it can be a "great" software for people that have a hard time remembering where stuff is, but not for me.
But can you trust it not to screw up your computer? I used to use CCleaner regularly in the days of XP and Windows 7. Then I got a new, fast Ryzen PC with Windows 10 and CCleaner broke all three browsers, Chrome, Firefox and Edge. After CCleaner had finished, I couldn't access the internet. Therefore I couldn't download any of the browser installers in order to reinstall the browsers. However, Opera was, thankfully, not installed, so I went to another PC and downloaded the Opera installer onto a USB stick. I put this stick in the Windows 10 PC and thus was able to install Opera and get access to the internet again. Thereafter I immediately removed CCleaner from all my PCs and will not use it again. Which is why I am dubious about PC Manager, especially as it has a Beta sticker on it.
@@MArk-yn4sp it's. You can already do it on Task manger, Storage Settings and more (those are the only two that I actually know and use, the other options like duplicate files then I don't know if windows has it or not)
the damn icon doesn't stay were I've arranged it on the system-tray. Every so often it moves itself all the way back to the left of all the other icons ... drove me crazy so got removed!
Hmm Brian doesn't seem to do much more than we can do already and I don't think I will bother with this program unless they come up with a better version with more options than it has already.
It cleans 9 things that it. I have CCleaner with ccenhancer and it is set to clean 92 things. PC manager cleaned 600mb CCleaner cleaned a few GB more, drivers ect
I thought this application was installed on default on windows 11 users, i recently uninstalled this like 5 months ago and it was promoting now itself as an alternative ccleaner? wow. but it made changes though, now that i saw this app in britec's channel, good to see, i guess.
Hi, Bri!!! Quick question... What do you think of iObit? I've used their unlocker, uninstaller, and registry cleaner for years... Do you think they're any good?
@@Britec09 Yes, it seems to be a simple but effective program for clearing junk files that doesn't claim to 'boost your pc' or urge you to upgrade to a 'pro version'.
1 hour after posting and still no-one suggesting (demanding?) we all switch to Linux. Think people are getting the message, or have you just blocked them all? 👍
If you clean up the system and it removes the junk yielding better performance it does speed up the system, it's not a placebo effect. Obviously, it's not a hardware upgrade but I don't think anyone using a system cleaner is expecting a magical hardware upgrade. : )
They just migrated from desktop application to uwp app. It's not any better than current software such as bleachbit, wise disk and registry cleaner. Just dropped it few days ago in favour of the above utilities
Yeah not impressed with the pc manager but it is worth noting that the process management section does let the use filter so that you can see useless process'es only. But your right Ben this ain't going to boost anything.
Vous devriez plutôt vous poser la question de savoir POURQUOI GNU/Linux n'a pas ces problèmes de virus, de logiciels mal installés/désinstallés, et occupe toujours 4x moins de place pour faire la même chose...
Yep, definitely more "Snake Oil". Apart from that, MSFT just wants to hi-jack and control ALL Windows software ("You WILL use MSFT software on OUR PC"). . LOL
"PC Manager will automatically boost your PC _when high usage of RAM_ or there ar 1GB of temporary files" Great to know that this totally legitimate and needed software by the largest producer of consumer and enterprise desktop and data center OSes is still employing people who can't construct a single English sentence properly to write the UI of their software. How the hell does this garbage make it past the project lead? Oh, because he/she also never actually learned English properly in India, but totally thinks they are #1 English pro after watching Friends re-runs all their life?
I hate this software because even when you take the tick off start up when the Pc starts up, there is still a service running in the background, C cleaner does not do that.
Think its quite a handy utility having everything in the one place. Microsoft do come in for quite a bashing but but lets give them a bit of leeway here. They seem to be damned if they do and damned if they don't.
C cleaner was nice back in the windows 98, somewhat on xp, now I think there useless, id just rather do a reformat these days,, if i think it needs a serious cleanup.
When I did a VIRUS scan on my computer, it found a bunch of old CCleaner .exe files and flagged them as dangerous. In many cases I had to use EMCO UnLock to remove them. I've been using PC Mangler & it seems to be OK except for the repeater tricks to set EDGE as my default browser.
Software like this that claims to boost your PC's performance is snake oil. It honestly reminds me of the iObit Advanced SystemCare software I used to use years back, when I first joined your community.
And in addition to my earlier comment about whether one should trust Microsoft to do anything right, I just booted up my Ryzen Windows 10 PC and half the icons in the system tray are missing! I wouldn't trust Microsoft to run a bath.
I get the impression that Microsoft is trying to create a 'cordon sanitaire' around Linux, and its troublesome geeks, so it can more effectively exploit the normies on Windows. Anyone with any kind of technical knowledge responds with revulsion to each new Microsoft shenanigan. I find it harder each year to justify having Windows 11 on two of my machines. Only the money I have spent on commercial software has given me pause. I've always found WINE to be a bit hit and miss for running Windows software on Linux.
This software was made for one purpose: to promote Edge and Bing. Some users might accidentally chose another browser, PC manager aims to fix it. And it can search for duplicates for some reason. 😁
Nailed it.
Ah, this is another reason why I don't use it as well.
Was the only way to fix setting brave and DuckDuckGo default. Tried other ways but this helped as well as few other things. So t have to dl 3rd party boosters or cleaners bc most cost or scam.
One of the issues with this software is that it claims your pc is needing repaired if you are not using Edge and Bing search (this is total rubbish because a pc needing repaired shouldn't be associated with what browser and search engine you use). Thanks for sharing this video.
Yeah, its junk software
@@Britec09 Well, I like edge, but they should let ppl choose there default browser
Yeah, Its just MS Bullcrap. Using the browser of your choice, is not an error to be repaired.
Apart from that Issue, I like how you can free up memory, and delete Temp Files quickly.
I have my own version.
A complete re-install every 6 months. That also gives me the option to remove crapware I have learned about since last re-install.
As we know, a lot of the crapware is difficult to get rid of, once it has sneaked onto the drive.
Edge is good. I dont get why it gets so much hate. Ive went from brave to edge suprisingly. I feel like people should use windows how they would use a macbook now since microsoft seems to be going in that direction. Edge is as fast as every other browser if not faster.
This made my pc so fast, it got up and left the room. Sent out an all points bulletin for it
"BOLO" the cops say. LOL.
I actually still like CCleaner in its portable and free form with all preferences set to absolute minimum. It's handy for keeping an overview on any unwanted startup entries that often creep in from time to time.
I agree that registry cleanups can be dangerous and unnecessary but I think CCleaner takes a far less aggressive approach and has never caused any issues for me on many PCs over many years.
I also agree that the Microsoft offering has very little merit.
This is an app to centralise all the built-in Windows utilities in one place. It may work for some and not for others. Whether you want to use PC Manager is up to you.
PC Manager is not a registry cleaner. As far as I’ve seen, as I’ve been using it for a while now, is it doesn’t touch the registry.
lot's of those cleaners do more damage than good.
@@laracroftonline especially when you use it to clean your personal files. It can delete important files.
@@laracroftonline agree
@@laracroftonline only if a manchild uses them
I used CCleaner once upon a time because of the convenience it provided to clear junk files, cache, etc, etc, etc, from one location. Something the OS should do, eh? But I gave it up once it became a source of pop-ups and other annoyances -- the usual "evolution" of so much similar software.
So MicroSoft is now providing such an app? Could be useful as a CCleaner replacement, but surely it should simply be a built-in function of the OS!
That's mostly all this app does is group all the already built in functions into one place!
thats why open source exists
PC Manager Pop-up Plan is not more popups, it is allowing users to participate in the submission of screenshots of unwanted popups that cannot be disabled which makes the popup blocker more effective.
Right?!? Why would he assume it’s promoting pop ups when it has a setting to block them. I’m no micro$oft fan, but common sense is sometimes missing in action.
@@Ryotsu2112 Because he says that he is not going to turn it on and then he says, "One minute they are trying to stop popups and then next minute they want to give you more popups". listen at around the 3:17 .
I remember in the early exciting days of Pc’s a lot of these types of utilities popped up with the most famous being Norton but soon many of them, began to be seen as bloatware as most became less favorable by not being as effective as marquee programs such as disk optimization, disk or file recovery, data backup, virus removal.
I have tried this quite a bit, especially when it was still in beta. I still prefer Bleachbit, Privazer (since it also includes Windows's built-in Disk Cleanup) and henrypp's Mem Reduct to keep the memory down. I also of course use DefenderUI which you have already covered at least once.While PC Manager includes a memory feature, you can't customize how often it cleans or the limit before it cleans. Plus PC Manager, like Microsoft Defender, uses a lot of memory and slows things down compared to the other programs. Maybe Microsoft will change more in the future.
I like it for the same reason you do, but most of it you can do manually, great video Brian, thank you.
MS PC Manager is less likely to break your OS than CCleaner as it's obviously optimized, but it's still proprietary. My personal recommendation is a FOSS alternative like BleachBit (which I heard you personally use), it won't touch things that are easily broken, it doesn't track you, and it's not bundled with bloatware and malware.
Quite true.
Oh? So MS programs are optimized and will not break your OS? Imagine that!
CCleaner doesn't break anything if you set it up correctly
I have a different problem, I "upgraded" my brand-new Dell XPS 8960 Windows 11 23H2 to Windows 10 22H2 eliminating a 4 Month nightmare of blue screens and crashes. The computer on Windows 10 "finally" was running smoothly. This afternoon 12 PM Sunday June 2, 2024, local Montreal time. Updates were needed and lo and behold when it was all finished, I was on Windows 11 24H2! How did Microsoft manage to bypass all of my registry hacks to infect my computer with Windows 11 24H2? My intention is to stay on Windows 10 and when support runs out, move to Linux.
Real simple, Microsoft just resets all your "illegal" registry hacks back to THEIR default.
I'm still using Windows 8.1 and have eliminated all programs that bug me with "You need Windows 10".
To this day I'm still using Office 2013 without any problems, I've got a lot of software that I pirated 15 years ago that worked under Windows XP and is till working under Windows 8.1. Chrome was replaced with Firefox without any issues and my default search engine is Duckduckgo. According to Facebook I'm an 102 year old Punjabi that lives in India but daily commutes to New York for my daily job.
Outstanding video, thank you for the comprehensive review of PC Manager.
We must have watched two different videos.
I use CCleaner for registry optimization. Everything else is just bonus cleanup convenience. So this software is only for cleanup and other conveniences, but doesn’t replace CCleaner for my uses.
imagine thinking your registry needs to be cleaned up in 2024
And imagine allowing malware to play around with your PC's registry
Messing with the registry with a cleaning software is a very risky process. Good way to wreck havoc on your windows installation and break stuff.
@@ghostdragon2593 it’s not at all risky since it backs up your registry before cleaning. If there’s any problems you just restore from the backup. I’ve been doing this since CCleaner was a new thing with no problems.
@@nenume00 it’s not cleaning, it’s a registry optimization. Believe it or not, windows doesn’t keep everything optimized, and installed software doesn’t always clean up after itself. Your registry can get messy. That being said, it’s not really as much of a problem now days as it used to be and I haven’t used anything like CCleaner for that purpose in quite a while. So your point is partly taken, even tho it was delivered dickish.
I rarely see ads popup in windows. Often it's right after a clean install of windows I'll see "ads" but they are just ads for MS Office, and Edge, not ads for other products like you see everywhere else on the internet.. and they seem to go away after the first week or so.. Probably because I'll go though a set of changes and tweaks, and run scripts that may be removing that, and disabling telemetry.
Hello Brian, I have enjoyed your videos for a couple of months now, and have applied several of your advised recommendations, fixes and expertise to my (old, 2015) Windows 10 home laptop. Thank you!
Just one small request though... It might be helpful to those of us with aging eyesight issues, if it'd be possible to use a larger, coloured mouse arrow with a trailing edge in order to follow along on the page together with you, as you are moving it around from place to place.
Installed it yesterday. Time will tell if it really boosts my computer, but so far it's not caused any harm. :)
Can't get it in the UK, not available in the store and can't download direct..
Windows already has the Disk clean up App and Storage Sense App to clean up files, this is the 3rd App now, it does a lot more though.
I don't see the point of the boost button it all comes back in seconds. it wants me to reset the start page to new tab & change the search engine back to Bing in Edge. As if I'm going to do that.🤣
maybe this is a sign that they might be preparing to disappear task manager...
I use Treesize Free. I had something similar in s/w that backup'd to VHS tape, but this scans your drive(s), and shows a full directory tree, and if you click on the 'size' column, it sorts the tree by size, so you can see where all the large folders are, and if you expand that line, what's inside. It doesn't auto-find the largest files, if they're a single file in a single folder, but it usually identifies the big folders where big files tend to be, so backing those up can release space quickly. It does drag&drop from its own window, and it's quick, so handy for some file shuffling, as-is.
Our PC manager will clean temp files and boost performance but right after we take some screenshots in a background :D
They add the metro bloat with one hand and will boost with the other. I suspect this program eats non-trivial amount of memory, and loading it on startup would be counter to its stated goals. The window has the aspect ratio of a pocket telephone, and Google-like widgets.
I have found that programs like this is like what you said - it's a plucebo . Hard ware of your system like Ram and Processors need to be high speed and is balance of each other.
Meaning that you cant have slow ram and a fast processor or the other way around of a slow processor and fast ram.
Here's an example { Acer E15 / E5-521 with AMD with a 4core 4threads and DDR4 Ram } which came out in 2014 - was not tooo bad but - it now struggles with Linux and cant play 1080 video on youtube, only 480 to 720 at best. Now its replaced by a i3 by Intel with 8 cores and 8 threads with DDR5 ram and this set up can play all the resolutions with no problem no stuttering or lagging .
So I think hardware has a great deal to do with how smoothly and responsiveness a system really is. All a cleaner does is make more room on your hard drive with little performance improvements but not by much...
It's is funny, as I can't seem to download/install it. Anything else in the Microsoft store but this. They are out to get me :-)
Back in the days of mechanical harddrives, you could get a boost if you hadn't cleaned out temporary system files or temporary internet files for about a year. But with SSD's, you'll hardly feel any performance impact, before you run out of space.
Plus it will change your default edge search engine to Bing which is annoying.
And your default browser to Edge.
@@gwaeron8630 that too
call me cynical but.. It is one of those programs that really want you to put Microsoft back in the driving seat.. making Edge the default under the guise of giving your PC a boost etc?
Can't comment about this microsoft product but can definitely say great tutorial.👍
The boost feature works great. It clears the memory of unnecessary processes. I use virtual desktop and this feature shortens the lag time of switching between desktops. Without it, I needed to reboot the PC once a week.
Clearing cache will make your PC run slower.. idk why people think this makes your PC faster since deleting cache defeats the ENTIRE purpose of data cashes, which is to make your PC run faster, DUH. Because thew apps that rely on that cache have to rebuild that cache in order to operate, thus it runs slower. This only makes sense if said cache is old data for old applications you're not using anymore, even then all you're really doing is clearing up drive space.
Cheers Brian - very helpful vid.
No problem 👍
@@Britec09 All garbage
I notice the positive wording for 'resolved' MS choices, and doubt-seeding options for non-MS choices. Marketing has penetrated totally into the tweaker experience.
I like PC cleaner. Been using it for a while and I really like it. It's improved a lot and although it doesn't touch the registry and does everything else very well! For me it is far better than ccleaner.
Been using pcm for about a year or so, it also cleans your ram if it goes over a gig of use.
I only used pc manager for pc boost and startup. The rest goes to ccleaner like health check, software update, and drive wiper.
Did windows finally package itself with an official uninstaller?
the built in disk cleaner is all we need unless wanna clean more stuff then just use bleach bit but disk cleaner is already 90% of what most users need to be honest
Thanks Brian for the analysis and final thoughts 💭👍🇦🇺
Could this be, because they want you to have enough memory (over 25 GB) so they can use the screenshot upgrade?
Who knows
No
@@Britec09 They do🤣
I've noted tips you gave to clean my system with the stock microsoft tools on a .txt file and it works well for me. After a few times, I remember where to go without reading my .txt file. No added software and I prefer to run these manually then a software scheduling it. When i am mixing or recording, I want minimal system ressources to be used.
I think it can be a "great" software for people that have a hard time remembering where stuff is, but not for me.
I appreciate this info. It allows to get an impression about the utility without installation of it
My search box has shrunk a but smaller, do you know a fix?
But can you trust it not to screw up your computer?
I used to use CCleaner regularly in the days of XP and Windows 7. Then I got a new, fast Ryzen PC with Windows 10 and CCleaner broke all three browsers, Chrome, Firefox and Edge. After CCleaner had finished, I couldn't access the internet. Therefore I couldn't download any of the browser installers in order to reinstall the browsers. However, Opera was, thankfully, not installed, so I went to another PC and downloaded the Opera installer onto a USB stick. I put this stick in the Windows 10 PC and thus was able to install Opera and get access to the internet again. Thereafter I immediately removed CCleaner from all my PCs and will not use it again.
Which is why I am dubious about PC Manager, especially as it has a Beta sticker on it.
No install button showing in MS store!!
It might do all those things AND SPY ON YOU / doesn't cleanup windows startup etc. as CCleaner does plus more.
isn't it stupid? window originally have lots of added cleaning function. i don't understand why MS made additional , independent cleaner for window?
@@MArk-yn4sp it's. You can already do it on Task manger, Storage Settings and more (those are the only two that I actually know and use, the other options like duplicate files then I don't know if windows has it or not)
the damn icon doesn't stay were I've arranged it on the system-tray. Every so often it moves itself all the way back to the left of all the other icons ... drove me crazy so got removed!
I'm using PC Manager a few months now, it's not bad.
This used to work for old mechanical drives, but modern nvme or ssd drives are unaffected by this kind of software.
Hmm Brian doesn't seem to do much more than we can do already and I don't think I will bother with this program unless they come up with a better version with more options than it has already.
It cleans 9 things that it.
I have CCleaner with ccenhancer and it is set to clean 92 things.
PC manager cleaned 600mb
CCleaner cleaned a few GB more, drivers ect
I don't know why Microsoft decided to make PC Manager since there are many built-in cleaning tools in Windows 11
I agree
to bring all the facets of many older panels, settings, etc into one GUI.
I thought this application was installed on default on windows 11 users, i recently uninstalled this like 5 months ago and it was promoting now itself as an alternative ccleaner? wow. but it made changes though, now that i saw this app in britec's channel, good to see, i guess.
Had this on beta long time ago. Only available from China. Cn at the time
Could you please post the link for the desktop picture shown in the video
Built in windows theme
@@Britec09 Thank you. Much appreciated 👍
It is marked as 'coming soon' on their webpage.
Does this cause any conflicts with Norton 360 and Norton Utilities?
Does Anyone Still Use Glary Utilities? Thank You.
Hi, Bri!!! Quick question... What do you think of iObit? I've used their unlocker, uninstaller, and registry cleaner for years... Do you think they're any good?
Dropped them half a decade ago. Now i use hibit uninstaller after switching from revo free/Pro
The only way to boost your PC is to get a new one with faster CPU, SSD, GPU and memory. Thanks for the video Brian.
Any comments about Bleachbit to rid the system of junk files?
Isn't this just another way to have access to all your files ( think daily recall)?
So what is wrong with BleachBit for example?
Not tried it, but sounds like a app that makes easy access to those functions in win windows for those that is less knowledgeable.
i love your videos i install this software and it mess up my computer for some reason keep the good videos coming i am sorry i cant join your youtube
Haven't used CCleaner in years, since Windows XP, and newer Windows are supposed to better at self-management.. so why need this?
Thanks for the post. Please can you give us your opinion of Bleachbit?
I use Bleachbit
@@Britec09 Yes, it seems to be a simple but effective program for clearing junk files that doesn't claim to 'boost your pc' or urge you to upgrade to a 'pro version'.
Is it format c:/.?
Microsoft Made An Alternative to CCleaner?
Now we know what to block and prevent it from work.
Thanks for the video.
Why does this remind me of Boeing using HCL for aeroplane software
1 hour after posting and still no-one suggesting (demanding?) we all switch to Linux. Think people are getting the message, or have you just blocked them all? 👍
We already have. Bing bong!
If you clean up the system and it removes the junk yielding better performance it does speed up the system, it's not a placebo effect. Obviously, it's not a hardware upgrade but I don't think anyone using a system cleaner is expecting a magical hardware upgrade. : )
They just migrated from desktop application to uwp app. It's not any better than current software such as bleachbit, wise disk and registry cleaner. Just dropped it few days ago in favour of the above utilities
i will stick with ccleaner never had any problems and always does good job lol
CCleaner used to be good but it's absolute trash now.
For decades!
I have this tool but not very impressed with it, I hate Ccleaner, Is there anything you can recommend that's so much better?
No.
Yeah not impressed with the pc manager but it is worth noting that the process management section does let the use filter so that you can see useless process'es only. But your right Ben this ain't going to boost anything.
If it's Mattel (I should have said MS Windows 11), it's swell. Some of you older commenters might get my drift.
Is it better than c cleaner.
ccleaner is junk
Ccleaner been in a downhill since the data tracking scandal
Vous devriez plutôt vous poser la question de savoir POURQUOI GNU/Linux n'a pas ces problèmes de virus, de logiciels mal installés/désinstallés, et occupe toujours 4x moins de place pour faire la même chose...
04:36 the kings of rip-off are using CCleaner broom icon for Disk Cleanup.
Yep, definitely more "Snake Oil". Apart from that, MSFT just wants to hi-jack and control ALL Windows software ("You WILL use MSFT software on OUR PC"). . LOL
微软要是早个7，8年开发电脑管家，说不定在中国还有机会，现在不太行了
It’s funny because the idea that deleting files would help performance was always nonsense but it became true with SSDs.
"PC Manager will automatically boost your PC _when high usage of RAM_ or there ar 1GB of temporary files"
Great to know that this totally legitimate and needed software by the largest producer of consumer and enterprise desktop and data center OSes is still employing people who can't construct a single English sentence properly to write the UI of their software.
How the hell does this garbage make it past the project lead? Oh, because he/she also never actually learned English properly in India, but totally thinks they are #1 English pro after watching Friends re-runs all their life?
I find it impossible to event trust M$ any more.
I hate this software because even when you take the tick off start up when the Pc starts up, there is still a service running in the background, C cleaner does not do that.
Think its quite a handy utility having everything in the one place. Microsoft do come in for quite a bashing but but lets give them a bit of leeway here. They seem to be damned if they do and damned if they don't.
And free up space....for Recall...because boy are you going to need it..
C cleaner was nice back in the windows 98, somewhat on xp, now
I think there useless, id just rather do a reformat these days,, if i think it needs a serious cleanup.
Thank you very helpful
Glad it helped
When I did a VIRUS scan on my computer, it found a bunch of old CCleaner .exe files and flagged them as dangerous. In many cases I had to use EMCO UnLock to remove them. I've been using PC Mangler & it seems to be OK except for the repeater tricks to set EDGE as my default browser.
Software like this that claims to boost your PC's performance is snake oil. It honestly reminds me of the iObit Advanced SystemCare software I used to use years back, when I first joined your community.
i had used debloat scripts and this program doesnt work because of it xd
Their "repair" seems to be more "restore".
why would anyone use microsoft apps
But Ed Bott says they are good! He's a tech writer. He is an expert. Nobody knows more than Ed.
/S /S /S
And in addition to my earlier comment about whether one should trust Microsoft to do anything right, I just booted up my Ryzen Windows 10 PC and half the icons in the system tray are missing! I wouldn't trust Microsoft to run a bath.
I get the impression that Microsoft is trying to create a 'cordon sanitaire' around Linux, and its troublesome geeks, so it can more effectively exploit the normies on Windows. Anyone with any kind of technical knowledge responds with revulsion to each new Microsoft shenanigan. I find it harder each year to justify having Windows 11 on two of my machines. Only the money I have spent on commercial software has given me pause. I've always found WINE to be a bit hit and miss for running Windows software on Linux.