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Start menu is also stupidly laggy. You hit start and have to wait before typing text will actually activate the search.
by danjc 3y ago
Start menu is also stupidly laggy. You hit start and have to wait before typing text will actually activate the search.
- yellow_postit 3y agoIt’s the focus on Bing integration and waiting for web results.
- addicted 3y agoI absolutely detest how I have had to train myself to pause after hitting the Windows key.
- userbinator 3y agoI believe that's at least partially because they rewrote it in UWP.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoMuch better to install PowerToys and hit Alt+Enter to find whatever exe you need. And if you're hunting down a specific file - install Everything, then Alt+Enter -> Everything -> search to your heart's content.
- avtolik 3y agoPowerToys Run is even slower than the Windows start menu. And I have disabled a half of the plugins including file and folder search.
- ImaCake 3y agoI find it to be much, much faster. Not sure what might be the difference between our experiences here. I basically dont open the windows menu bar anymore, especially since the powertoys run bar has a shutdown keyword too.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoConfirming the other comment - I've always found it to be much faster than the start menu, on every corporate issued ThinkPad I've used in the last year (3). Maybe something is weird on your machine.
- linhns 3y agoMight want to reinstall. Mine was also sluggish on the first installation but afterwards run swimmingly
- subtra3t 3y agoSpeaking of PowerToys, does anybody know of similar generic useful tools for Windows? I know that a lot of such apps exist for macOS, but I haven't found many for Windows.
- pohuing 3y agoThere's Monitorian to change external screen brightness, eartrumpet to give a better audio settings experience in your tray and AutomaticDarkMode to change your system theme based on some conditions (such as time). These are the utilities I always install. Apart from that I use ExplorerPatcher because win11 took a big step back in the start menu and task bar flyouts.
- subtra3t 3y agoThanks!
- sva_ 3y ago> And if you're hunting down a specific file - install Everything, then Alt+Enter -> Everything -> search to your heart's content. Imagine your operating system's search is so bad that you allow a closed source app to hook the entire file api
- jdhendrickson 3y agoAdd in flowlauncher and it becomes even more useful.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoLooks slick! https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher Do you know if it does anything like what Everything does re/ tapping into Windows's underlying file database?
- avtar 3y agoLooks like there’s an Everything plugin https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher#everything-plugin-merged-into-explorer https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher#everything-pl...
- iconhacker 3y agoThe best is https://fluentsearch.net/ https://fluentsearch.net/ that supports on screen keywords search as well as a powerful launcher and file indexer. For screen search it supports UIA as well as image/text based on OCR like search. It is the best and more accurate than win-vind.
- bboygravity 3y agoDoesn't Classic Shell (or whatever its follow-up is called) fix this like it did in Win10? If not that alone is reason enough for me not to upgrado to Win11.