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NelsonMinar 37 days ago next [—]. PowerToys Run is fantastic as an app launcher. Not quite as good as Alfred on MacOS but then nothing is. There's a bunch of similar apps for Windows I used to use Hain but none ever worked quite right for me, PowerToys Run does though.
FancyZones is awfully nice too for just putting a window somewhere at a reasonable size and location. As other folks have noted SysInternals is another similar rogue Windows product by Microsoft.
Process Explorer from there is indispensible, as is Autoruns. The Sysinternals suite is incredible; acquiring Sysinternals and maintaining the tools is one of the best things the Windows team has ever done. I don't love everything about Windows these days, and I've mostly switched away from it.
But Process Explorer and Process Monitor are a lovely reminder that it's still a powerful OS, and tools don't have to be text-first to cater to power users. NelsonMinar 37 days ago root parent next [—].
Buying Sysinternals is how Mark Russinovich started working at Microsoft, right? He's the CTO of Azure now! Liquix 37 days ago parent prev next [—]. Wofi [2] is inspired by rofi but is Wayland native. Works very well for me with Sway. Here bemenu like dmenu really shines. Also Wayland native, but supports X11 and ncurses backends too. Wofi for wayland. Among the advanced ones are krunner, ulauncher and sway-fzfify.
But I can see why some people would prefer their launcher to be in the middle of the screen. Wishlist feature for PowerToys Run The ability to search for an application and bring those windows into focus. It's much easier for my brain to just type the first two letters of the app I want to focus then to remember the state of the app switch history.
This is "built into" PowerToys Run. In fact, at the beginning that was all it could do. It's now been moved into a bundled plugin named after the original app that was morphed into this: WindowWalker. I don't remember what the special character you have to type to target the plugin is because I made my installation of PowerToys Run use that plugin by default without a prefix and I disabled all the other plugins.
As of the version I have installed 0. Listary is pretty much the best I've encounter on Windows. When I'm on a laptop of someone else, Listary is the one that I miss so much. I don't know why, but anything on Softpedia makes me very skeptical. Fair warning to everyone reading this. Listary is now effectively abandonware. CWuestefeld 36 days ago root parent next [—]. The developer posted this at the end of April Sorry to disappear for almost three years and then reappear in this way.
I have so many feelings to share with Listary and especially with you, the users who have always been with Listary for the past few years. A brand-new vision, a brand-new product, and a brand-new journey. Falkon 37 days ago parent prev next [—]. Or just hitting the WIN key to get the search dialog? I'm kind of a power user, since the C64 and DOS 3. Never seen a need for a separate launcher app. Also wonder about that FancyZones. All those basic functions which if you have MacOS, for some reason you need to buy separate apps just to get that basic functionality.
Haven't ever felt a need for a separate app for that either. The thing that Alfred does that the various methods of launching an app don't do is that it switches to an already-running app.
If I've got Outlook open I don't want another Outlook open. Why would I want that? I want to go to the version of Outlook that I already have running! This renders a 'launcher' pointless. I only 'launch' Outlook once a day. I've yet to find — and I stopped looking a while back, because I stopped using the OS — a Windows 'application launcher' that does this.
Is this a result of the way that Windows and Mac treat running apps differently? I only ever have one instance of Safari.
That isn't the case on Windows, so how would a 'switcher' know which instance to pick? PowerToys Run will search for the currently selected tab title on each browser window.
A few more favorites, there is now a pin window to top of screen so you can keep something always on top of other windows. What is extra nice, is if you use multiple virtual desktops, it stays on the virtual desktop.
You want to switch to an already running app? Alt tab or win tab doesnt do that? It does, but I want to do it with an Alfred-like switcher. So on every invocation I have to look, find, switch. Contrast with bringing up Mail using Alfred. Near-instant for me because I've done it literally thousands of times. SPBS 37 days ago root parent next [—]. Timpy 37 days ago root parent prev next [—]. I wrote a bash script for this and binded it to some key commands in Linux Mint.
I have other keys for other programs. I'm relatively new to Mac, looks like I need to check out Alfred. It's more reliable and predictable. The standard windows search often prioritizes online searches vs searching through your files.
Even when I type in math, sometimes it gives me bing results instead of just solving the math. Especially for subtractions. I'm especially loving this app when using it on my 4K monitor, as this is where the zones really come in handy.
I'm pretty much only using FancyZones. Geezus 37 days ago parent prev next [—]. Wow, a closed-source blob which deeply integrates with your operating system. What could go wrong.. I'd used FindAndRunRobot for many years, but recently got a new laptop and was reviewing my usual list of utils and tools during the setup process.
Came across Keypirinha, and it's great! I probably didn't take enough advantage of FARR's configurability before, but the same is true for KP atm - I really just use it for launching apps, not searching files or anything else.
But, KP is working great for me so far and I'm happy with having switched to it. One of the best things about Keypirinha is plugin support and PackageControl that let's you install new plugging from within Keypirinha itself. V-2 37 days ago parent prev next [—]. I quite liked Launchy and I can recommend it. This being said, it's inexplicable to me why this particular feature isn't supported on Windows out of the box. The nearest equivalent search feature in the Start menu is pretty bad.
When I still used Windows, my favorite app launcher was voidtools Everything. RachelF 37 days ago root parent next [—]. It's one of the reasons I stay on Windows. I haven't found a Linux tool that works as well for file indexing. Zardoz84 37 days ago root parent next [—]. So, you never try any Linux in 20 years?
Linux launchers had better file indexing in any metric before that Windows did it. It can be hard for Linux fans to admit when anything on Windows is better, but Voidtools's Everything is one.
I've used and still use most file indexing and search tools in Linux, and Everything is just categorically better. While I've got the conch another thing that Windows does much better than Linux is Remote Desktop access.
Nothing beats Everything. When I changed to Linux 6 years ago I have to be more mindful of where I put my files, because on Windows Everything works extremely well. MonaroVXR 37 days ago root parent next [—].
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