Win+R replacement

[HeinanCA]

Currently, in Windows 10 (1903), when clicking Win+R, it opens the "Run" window command.

This functionality is very limited - the user must remember the exact command, or the exact file. No auto-correct, and if the user is wrong, it only brings an error message that says the file or command was not found.

Can you please add a tool which improves this window, at least with auto-correct?

crutkas edits:

• https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/wiki/Launcher is the spec
• remember to xref Win+R Window Replacement #51 as it was listed as a dup

[anudit]

An auto-complete functionality just like the one present in the current file explorer address bar would certainly make this functionality more powerful along with a fluent design makeover would go a long way.

[bergamin]

Doesn't the start menu do exactly that on Windows 10?

You can type either "winword" or "Word" and Microsoft Word will appear as the first option. It also has an auto-complete function

[anudit]

At this point the start menu has most of the functionality of the Win+R menu.

[HeinanCA]

Well, that's the point. I feel that, especially when dealing with power users, they go tue Win+R route by default. Adding functionality to this shortcut, can certainly make their lives easier.

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[lemonade1947]

I really think it should function similar to dmenu on linux.
Currently the way I, and a lot of power users, open programs, is to hit WinKeym, type the first few letters of the name of an app, lets say notepad, then hit enter.

WinKey > "notep" > Enter

This has a few disadvantages that I think could be addressed with this new Win+R menu.

• Windows search is kind of trash
• If you mistype, it tries to search whatever you typed in Edge. Which is a perfectly reasonable feature even if I don't personally use it, but it'd be nice to be able to know when it was going to happen.
• Files and folders also come up in this menu, so sometimes you end up opening these up instead.

Honestly, I think a slightly more user friendly "clone" of dmenu would be perfect for this.

[rory-austin]

What about just adding tab completion to Win+R? Or even fancy "dropdown" suggestions?

[christopherime]

Auto-correction or suggestion or completion would be awesome
Would have save me a lot of time with the %appdata%

[JSebastianN]

I am so happy about this!

Some years ago when IE was still a contender, I used Run 100 times a day:
For browsing

No matter what was in focus, you could just go Win+R www.git...
and Run would double as browser address bar and complete your input

Plus, a web history is shown, so down/up arrow would give you access to other address suggestion.

I miss that. A lot.

[cypherstream]

Tab completion would be amazing. I would also like an easy way to “run as administrator”. I do not run day to day as an admin but sometimes I need to run mmc to connect to another computer and I have the habit of using Winkey+R when in actuality I need to search for mmc in the start menu to right click > run as admin and enter my domain admin credentials.

[boarder2]

@cypherstream - You can already launch applications as admin by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Enter from the Run dialog.

[michbushi]

As others have mentioned here; I cannot see a single use case above that pressing Win+R needs to solve, that isn't already solved by pressing Win alone (with the exception of %appdata% auto-completion; apparently %-ones do not autocomplete; would be nice)
I dig muscle memory, but really...

[trevren11]

Could we have Win+R also be allowed to use powershell instead of cmd? I have a ton of powershell functions that I would love to use (with autocomplete also)