PowerToys may soon receive a new tool: a kind of Spotlight to find and run files and applications

"We have talked on other occasions about Windows PowerToys. It is a set of utilities available for Windows that seek to enhance its usability by adding special functions through the use of the Windows Registry."

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Among the possibilities currently offered are some such as PowerRename, FancyZones and Shortcut and in fact we already saw how we could install them without having to access RegEdit and therefore avoiding the risks involved. Some PowerToys that are now preparing to receive a new function, a kind of search engine and application launcher in the purest Spotlight style."

A Spotlight for Windows

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The new addition is called PowerLauncher and how they count on Deskmodder.de, will allow the user to access a single point where they can search for both files such as from applications within your computer. A dot that can be placed next to the activity bar to make it more accessible but is also accessible with the Win + Space key combination>"

There is more information about it in this thread on Github and on Niels Laute's Twitter you can see how PowerLauncher works in an animated GIF that can be reminiscent of the function Spotlight found on macOS and on iOS.

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For now this tool is in an early stage of development and its interface is based on WinUI 2.3, so hopefully it won&39;t take too long to make the leap to WinUI 3.0 and adopt the Fluent Design style. PowerLauncher would thus become a more effective alternative than the one currently offered by using the Start menu>"

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Windows 10 PowerToys drink the waters of Windows 95 and primitive PowerToys as tools for power users who would like to get more power and efficiency out of the Windows 10 shellIt is one of the possibilities offered by Powertoys, because, as reported in Bleeping Computer, Microsoft is working on adding new PowerToys, such as one that allows you to maximize the desktop widget, a tool to eliminate processes that don&39;t respond and a screen recorder that exports as an animated GIF."

Via | Deskmodder.de