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I disabled windows search indexing. I just use voidtools Everything. It just works. You get access to any file on your system in milliseconds instead of 30+seconds of windows search.

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This. First thing I do on a new windows installation is to install everything.

I never use the start menu, windows search or whatever anymore. When I need to run a program that isn't on my desktop or on my quick run taskbar I press ctrl+alt+s and then a few characters of the name. Pick the result I want with the arrow keys and press enter. Done.

Before Everything I used to remember my filesystem. Like wheres what to rapidly access stuff. This was 12-14 years ago. I now just remember the file name. Everything remembers everything else.

with an app launcher you wouldn't need to touch the arrow keys as the apps would get a) sorted by frecency and b) have a more convenient shortcut

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