Microsoft's Command Palette is a Powerful Launcher For Apps, Search (theverge.com) 11
Microsoft has released Command Palette, an enhanced version of its PowerToys Run launcher introduced five years ago. The utility, aimed at power users and developers, provides quick access to applications, files, calculations, and system commands through a Spotlight-like interface.
Command Palette integrates the previously separate Window Walker functionality for switching between open windows and supports launching command prompts, executing web searches, and navigating folder structures. Unlike its predecessor, the new launcher offers full customization via extensions, allowing users to implement additional commands beyond default capabilities. Available through the PowerToys application since early April, Command Palette can be triggered using Win+Alt+Space after installation
Command Palette integrates the previously separate Window Walker functionality for switching between open windows and supports launching command prompts, executing web searches, and navigating folder structures. Unlike its predecessor, the new launcher offers full customization via extensions, allowing users to implement additional commands beyond default capabilities. Available through the PowerToys application since early April, Command Palette can be triggered using Win+Alt+Space after installation
Why isn't this built-in? (Score:2)
There's already a search box built into the Windows 11 start menu. And they have co-pilot.
Multiple teams working on multiple solutions? I mean I understand that PowerToys is something of a skunkworks project but why don't their brightest minds pool resources!
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Re: Why isn't this built-in? (Score:2)
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Because who doesn't like having to search for something instead of going right to it.
Perhaps if Microsoft would stop hiding things Windows would be easier to use.
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because win11 start menu search is useless, co-pilot normally fails at anything involving local actions..
I guess the people working on powertools just got too annoyed at the current idiocy produced by other parts of the company. I mean the different parts do not talk to each other after all.
"Powerful"? (Score:2)
As in "making my computer's fans scream and whine for 5 minutes after one single use"?
No, thank you, the shortcut files were powerful enough 20 years ago already.
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Maybe there's something else going on. My 7-year-old desktop computer didn't even flinch when I ran this thing.
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I thankfully don't have to use windows, but some people around me do, and the whine is incessant.
But the marks are so used to the noise that they just don't notice it anymore.
Not sure it improves on the Start button (Score:2)
It pretty much does all the same stuff. The PowerToys thing is missing a lot of UX niceness. For example, the up/down arrow keys work, but not page up/down or Home/End, to navigate the list.
My command Palette (Score:2)