Microsoft's 'Find My Device' is the PC management tool you didn't know you needed

Microsoft’s “Find My Device” feature is so much more than a simple device locator that it’s like calling a “car” nothing more than just four tires and a steering wheel. The online service is a powerful PC manager in its own right, and arguably more effective in that regard than Windows itself.We originally covered Find My Device when it debuted about six years ago as a service to, obviously, find a lost device. It's changed so little that you can still use the instructions in the original article to enable it.The feature made far more sense when Microsoft actually sold devices that could be lost—i.e., Windows phones. Once Microsoft discontinued Windows 10 Mobile, you might think that much of that value went away. Over time, though, the opposite occurred.To read this article in full, please click here https://www.pcworld.com/article/3610707/microsofts-find-my-device-is-the-pc-management-tool-you-didnt-know-you-needed.html#tk.rss_all

Created 4y | Mar 22, 2021, 11:20:42 AM


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