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PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by vort3 »

Geezus-42 wrote: post #224
NelsonMinar wrote: post #164

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…

https://keypirinha.com/

One of the best things about Keypirinha is plugin support and PackageControl that let's you install new plugging from within Keypirinha itself.

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by genewitch »

coderintherye wrote: post #135

Since I so rarely see a Windows thread, perhaps folks wont mind me asking: What utilities or code would you leverage if you had a use case to run a program on a Windows machine once a day and look for any CSV/XLS/XLSX files and then copy those to another server? (With full knowledge of the owner of said computer, they are just lacking in proficiency to do anything even as simple as connect Box Sync)

i'm having trouble coming up with ethical reasons to want .csv and .xlsx files from users that aren't "proficient at configuring software". A good backup solution will use deltas and do exactly this, and be preconfigured or configured-at-runtime.

If you really must, you can always write the program yourself, it sounds very easy. Deploy it with an installer that copies a link into Startup, the whole bit.

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by archon810 »

sascha_sl wrote: post #231
mariusmg wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>but none ever worked quite right for me Try Wox, it has built-in integration with "Everything".

PowerToys Run is Wox.[1] 1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run#attri...

For some reason even though it's based on Wox, Run has always been much laggier to respond to key presses than Wox. For this reason, I keep going back to Wox.

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by mintplant »

bubbab wrote: post #77

I use PowerToys just for the easy key remapping, which I wish was a built-in feature in more keyboards. Works very nicely as a simple alternative to AutoHotKey. My RSI has gotten a lot better by just remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl. If any PowerToys feature deserves to be added to Windows, it's gotta be the Keyboard Manager.

This is one thing I love about Wooting keyboards. The Wootility [0] lets you drag and drop keys around your layout to remap them, and save the mappings to the keyboard itself, so the keys will stay mapped even if you move it between systems.

[0] https://next.wooting.io/wootility

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

RachelF wrote: post #255
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I still used Windows, my favorite app launcher was voidtools Everything

It's one of the reasons I stay on Windows. I haven't found a Linux tool that works as well for file indexing.

I've made do with

    find ~ > ~/index/home.txt ; find / > ~/index/root.txt

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Post by SPBS »

jen729w wrote: post #260
bloqs wrote: post #257

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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. The problem with *-tab is that each application has no fixed place in that space. So on every invocation I have to look, find, switch. Contrast with bringing up Mail using Alfred. The behaviour is always the same, and therefore muscle-memory-learnable: Cmd+space, ma, return. Messages: Cmd+space, me, return. Near-instant for me because I've done it literally t…

> The problem with *-tab is that each application has no fixed place in that space.

BTW Win+1 to Win+9 will switch to the first 9 pinned items in taskbar. If there isn’t an available window it will open one. I have Outlook pinned as the 4th item on my taskbar so navigating to it is always Win+4.

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by Zardoz84 »

RachelF wrote: post #255
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I still used Windows, my favorite app launcher was voidtools Everything

It's one of the reasons I stay on Windows. I haven't found a Linux tool that works as well for file indexing.

So, you never try any Linux in 20 years ? Linux launchers had better file indexing in any metric before that Windows did it.

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by shadowfox »

sascha_sl wrote: post #231
mariusmg wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>but none ever worked quite right for me Try Wox, it has built-in integration with "Everything".

PowerToys Run is Wox.[1] 1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run#attri...

I don't think the plugin support is quite the same?

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by Thiez »

jcrben wrote: post #67

I found that IT at work wouldn't let me install powertoys because they didn't like the Awake feature. Please bundle these in of allow us to install them one by one.

Doesn't every browser also come with this feature when playing (for example) a youtube video? Seems like the horse has left the barn.
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