In article , lid says...

Philip Herlihy wrote:
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What's the quickest access on Win10 to programs, files, & folders?

I'm not asking about the most used ones, which we put on the task bar.
And besides, the task bar is lousy for anything other than programs.

And you can forget the desktop - since that is already a huge mess.

I'm asking about programs, files, & folders not already on the task bar.
And not already on the desktop - which is already a huge mess.

Mostly I'm asking how to access files & folders with the least clicks.

Is there single click access to files and folders somehow on Win10?
Or at least right click (and then left click) access to all three on Win10?

The search facility is better in W10 than in any previous version of
Windows, in my view. So tap the Windows key and start typing. Very
rarely lets me down.


Did you program the Search Indexer ?

How long did that take you ?

It's got the GUI interface from hell :-/

One of these days, I'm going to figure out where
the exception list is stored, and hand-edit it,
rather than use the GUI.

Third-party searches are known for their "completeness".
They cover more filenames than the Windows one would.
With the Windows one, you can never be certain (from the
outside), what's actually in there.

It is possible to probe the windows.edb file and
make a filelist of what is in there. I've done that.
But the method is not all that convenient.

Paul

Let me see if I've got this right. I want to find a program (e.g.
"Quick Assist". I tap the Windows key once. I type Q then u then i ..
... and the program I want is already there in the list. I click it, and
it starts. This is the GUI interface from Hell?

Quick Assist is a good test, because I'm routinely asked for help from
customers. So on a wide range of machines which are new to me, this is
what I tell them, over the phone, to do. It just works. It also works
for any of the many, many files and documents on my PC. If you can
design something better, we'll be all ears.

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Phil, London