At this point I’ve just abandoned the start menu all together. PowerToys Run has effectively become how I launch anything that isn’t on the taskbar, tied to one of the buttons on my mouse or a keyboard shortcut. Everything search on a different shortcut replaces the built-in search.
Of course that’s just how I cope on my mandatory-Windows 11 work laptop. At home (and I know this is almost a meme at this point), I’m slowly getting myself accustomed to Linux alongside Windows 10 until that’s no longer feasible.
Am I misunderstanding something or are you saying you dig into the program files every time you launch a program? I thought the OP was talking about programs not files and folder.
I don’t install to program files typically, but yes. I navigate the tree and launch either my bat files or exe files directly. A program is just launched by a ‘file’ or executable in this case.
At this point I’ve just abandoned the start menu all together. PowerToys Run has effectively become how I launch anything that isn’t on the taskbar, tied to one of the buttons on my mouse or a keyboard shortcut. Everything search on a different shortcut replaces the built-in search.
Of course that’s just how I cope on my mandatory-Windows 11 work laptop. At home (and I know this is almost a meme at this point), I’m slowly getting myself accustomed to Linux alongside Windows 10 until that’s no longer feasible.
Am I the only one that still using the file explorer to navigate to the folders I want?I’ve never used the start menu…only computer then Explorer
Am I misunderstanding something or are you saying you dig into the program files every time you launch a program? I thought the OP was talking about programs not files and folder.
I don’t install to program files typically, but yes. I navigate the tree and launch either my bat files or exe files directly. A program is just launched by a ‘file’ or executable in this case.
That sounds needlessly complex when you can create shortcuts, either on the start menu or desktop. Or another central location.
TIL file trees are complex…