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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 it’s 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 or stolen device. It has changed so little in the interim that you can still use the instructions in the original article to enable it.

The feature made far more sense when Microsoft

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