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hydrogen7800yesterday at 3:13 PM3 repliesview on HN

Ugh, I can no longer press win key and type "p a i enter". I now have to find the old paint manually.


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idle_processoryesterday at 6:26 PM

Give FlowLauncher[0] or Windows Powertoys Run[1] a shot.

There are some amazing tools like that (and Everything[2], which replaces Windows' inferior search) that really change how one interacts with Windows.

There are other tricks like putting scripts or shortcuts or executables in a directory referenced by your PATH variable, which can make the Win+R trick better too.

[0] https://www.flowlauncher.com/ [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run [2] https://www.voidtools.com/

dataflowyesterday at 4:42 PM

Switch to Open-Shell's start menu and don't look back.

hilariouslyyesterday at 3:43 PM

win+r - mspaint - enter

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