Better way to view windows certs than MMC?

You can open a Powershell console and use the dir command on the Cert: provider to list the information you want. For example, the commands below would list thumbprints and subjects (friendly names) for the current user certs and the machine certs respectively:

dir Cert:\CurrentUser\My
ls Cert:\LocalMachine\My\

You can run the command below to get more info on how to work with certificates using the Certificate provider in Powershell.

help certificate

Or you can read more online here