TidyWindow is a Windows install and maintenance companion built for system builders and power users. It bundles repairs, cleanup, tweaks, installs, and diagnostics into one app, with a heavy focus on safety and logging built in.

This app is built for power users, but it has plenty in it for those who are curious and want to do things a bit more efficiently on their setups. But this is not a one-click fixer-upper. It expects you to read, confirm, and understand what you are doing.

What it Does Well

TidyWindow runs all operations through its dashboard, which calls its PowerShell scripts. It lives up to its name. It's very well designed and laid out, making it easy to find what you need, and you don't have to pore over reference notes to remember how to do it. It also has a very full-featured logging system. This is super important to tweakers looking to improve or fix something that broke.

Core Features Include:

● Essentials repair center for networking, Defender, printing, and Windows Update issues
● Multi-stage cleanup with previews, risk signals, and recycle-bin-first deletion
● Registry optimizer with staged tweaks and timed rollback
● Software install and maintenance using Winget, Scoop, and Chocolatey
● PATH management and basic process intelligence
● Full activity logs with searchable transcripts and notifications

Software Installs and PATH Management

For you geeks with shops or working at a company where you deploy similar configs all day, the install hub is handy. If you have a known baseline of apps you want, you can queue installs across Winget, Scoop, and Chocolatey and let them run in order with proper logs.

PATH editing is wrapped in validation and diff previews, with rollback checkpoints before changes are applied. It is much safer than editing PATH by hand.

A Couple Minor Points of Contention

The app insists on running in a full window. I could not find a clean way to minimize it into something more compact. On a 4K monitor, it looks modern, but it feels unnecessarily large and in the way.

Restore points are enforced for risky actions, which is good, but they are not a replacement for real backups. You should still have your own.

Geek Verdict

TidyWindow is powerful, cautious, and not for everyone. It's a very handy Windows maintenance and repair tool built for builders and advanced users who like visibility into their systems' inner workings. We love the sequential automation, dry runs, real logs, rollback timers, and restore-point enforcement.

This tool is for people who want to know exactly what changed and how to undo it. If that sounds like you, TidyWindow makes sense.

In the modern, automated world, antivirus false positives are unavoidable - especially with niche products and will turn people off to this product until the AV companies catch up.

If you get stuck, drop by the MajorGeeks forums. Someone there can help.