https://fluentsearch.net/ fluentsearch is way more powerful than powertoy run. It replaced my need for Listary as well. The author is an Microsoft engineer and have frequently updated the app based on the community feedback. If fluent search replaced powertoy run and be part of the powertoy, it will be perfect.
PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wishlist feature for PowerToys Run The ability to search for an application and bring those windows into focus. This is my primary way of switching between applications (except for the terminal which I have bound to Ctrl+Shift+Space). 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 (0.58) WindowWalker is included by default in the results of the PowerToys Run results. To target windows specifically the default character is `<`.
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#223Worth installing just for the image resizer
Try IrfanView it has a very powerful batch feature (the UI looks like it was designed by a programmer though)
https://www.irfanview.net/tutorials/bartosz_makuch2/images/i...
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#224PowerToys 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…
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#225PowerToys 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…
What’s the difference between alfred and spotlight? I always yse spotlight for launcher and app switching and it’s great
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#226The new best launcher app for mac is raycast.app by miles though.
Alfred was king but no more
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#227I like powertoys, especially ‘fancy zones’! But Explorer is something I stopped using more than a decade ago when I encountered TotalCommander - that I cannot do without!!! The regex-supporting live-preview batch-filenaming utility alone is awesome. I work so much faster (with the keyboard) than will ever possible in Explorer! I could write for hours about the greatness of TCM, but as that’s a little off topic here I…
Don't forget about its Free Software counterpart - Double Commander.
Cross-platform, feature packed, constantly updated, Lua-scriptable, supports TC plugins, written in Free Pascal.
Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities
#228PowerToys 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…
https://keypirinha.com/
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.
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#229I run it all the time on Windows 11. FancyZones are great for ultrawide monitor use. Would definitely recommend it.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Wouldn't it make more sense for the scanning feature to be its own app, so that users can find it, know what it is, and not activate it accidentally? It's been a few years since I had that phone so the details are a bit fuzzy but I seem to recall it was very discoverable from the email attachment interface, at the very least. Problem with a separate app is that it's a separate codebase and thus easier for it to fal…
> It's been a few years since I had that phone so the details are a bit fuzzy but I seem to recall it was very discoverable from the email attachment interface, at the very least. That's great if I'm sending an email, but what if I want to upload the documents to a website, or send them via iMessage, or Airdrop them to another Apple device, or print out the scan to effectively make a second paper copy? Do you add the…
>Yeah, bundling everything into iTunes worked really well for Apple, didn't it? :D
I'm not really an "Apple Guy" so it's not clear to me what you are referring to.