In Windows 10, I can group all these or put them in folders to reflect this. To me, they don't have names, they have images, including multiple saved 'apps' from my own company web site. What about web pages installed as apps? I suppose you can give these names, and then search by typing that name, but I think of them as their icons. OneNote Windows 10, or the correct Amazon S3 file manager. I want to look at all my graphics editors, and then select one, or look at my various MP3 or audio players/editors, then pick one, or a text editor (Notepad, Notepad++, some hex editor, etc.), or OneNote desktop vs. Kind of the opposite of typing, which requires you to already know exactly what app you need.

My problem with the new Windows 11 Start menu (and I think the general problem among users, aside from losing Live Tiles) is the lack of being able to organize my apps in groups for browsing. This is one thing that's effectively unchanged between Windows 10 and 11. At best this streamlines the capability that Windows 10 and 11 (and even Windows 7 and 8) have in common: typing the name of a program to launch it. this doesn't really address the changes from Windows 10 Start Menu to Windows 11. If you don't like the new Start Menu or hell, even if you do, you have to try PowerToys Run. It takes a little training to stop yourself from using a mouse to open files and apps, but once you get your brain thinking that way, it's much more efficient. PowerToys Run sounds like a power user tool, and it is, but it's also perfectly accessible to the average person. Of course, any of these plugins you don't want, simply turn them off. All apps can be run as administrator from within the results or send the path straight to your terminal. It has a built-in calculator, a unit converter, even access to basic shell features and registry search.

In my experience though, PowerToys Run has become so good that I don't need to see more than three results and it'll have found what I'm looking for.

If you want to only see a few results, you can decrease this, or increase it if you want to see more. More so even than that, you have complete control over the results you get in PowerToys Run. Source: Windows Central (Image credit: Source: Windows Central)

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