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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:05:26 -0800, ultred ragnusen
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Find does intelligent autocomplete, even typing S will bring up snipping.

It was my mistake to say that the Run box found snippingtool.exe because it
was, as you note above, Cortana, which was finding the snippingtool.exe.

However, I found an easy way to make the Start Run box find the snipping
tool when you enter "snip" into the "real" Start Run box.

Export the existing "SnippingTool.exe" App Paths key, and simply change the
name of the key in the resulting text file from "SnippingTool.exe" to
"snip.exe" and then import that new key into your registry.

Once you add that new (duplicate) key (of the name "snip.exe"), this works:
Start Run snip

For clarity in the tribal archives, this is the /only/ difference between
the old original key and the new duplicate key you created:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\App Paths\SnippingTool.exe]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\App Paths\snip.exe]

You went through all of that and ended up with the same functionality
that everyone else already has, so I'm wondering, what was the point?

Char Jackson wrote:

You went through all of that and ended up with the same functionality
that everyone else already has, so I'm wondering, what was the point?

That's a good question, where most people surrender to search engines.

In contrast, I have always turned Cortana off because I see no value in a
search engine so that I can find my black socks in my black-sock drawer,
and my white socks in my white-sock drawer.

I don't need to run a search engine to find my screwdrivers, which are in
the screwdriver drawer, or my pliers, which are in the pliers drawer.

Most people can't find anything, even moments after they put it away, so I
admit, I'm different than most people in that I know where everything is,
years, and often decades, ahead of time. On /all/ my machines.

Plus, being able to efficiently instantly run /any/ desired command without
/any/ desktop clutter, is always a good thing to know how to do.

YMMV

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:12:58 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

You went through all of that and ended up with the same functionality
that everyone else already has, so I'm wondering, what was the point?

That's a good question, where most people surrender to search engines.

In contrast, I have always turned Cortana off because I see no value in a
search engine so that I can find my black socks in my black-sock drawer,
and my white socks in my white-sock drawer.

I don't need to run a search engine to find my screwdrivers, which are in
the screwdriver drawer, or my pliers, which are in the pliers drawer.

Most people can't find anything, even moments after they put it away, so I
admit, I'm different than most people in that I know where everything is,
years, and often decades, ahead of time. On /all/ my machines.

Plus, being able to efficiently instantly run /any/ desired command without
/any/ desktop clutter, is always a good thing to know how to do.

YMMV

No argument with any of that, but you can do it all from what you call
the Search box, right? In fact, there's a lot less typing involved when
using the Search box versus the Run box or a Command Prompt. You rarely
need any path info, for example.

Would you have preferred that they call the Search box by another name?
Is it "Search" that you object to?

Char Jackson wrote:

No argument with any of that, but you can do it all from what you call
the Search box, right?

You bring up a good point, where I readily admit that I confused the issue
for everyone in the beginning because what I was calling "Start Run" was
really the Cortana search.

I only belatedly found out that there's a real "Start Run" dialog box,
which has the astoundingly huge advantage over the Cortana search box in
that it /always/ does exactly what you expect it to do, whereas Cortana
does whatever Cortana does, but it's not always going to be what you expect
it to do.

For example, 99% of the time when I type something into Cortana, I get a
bing page with gibberish in it, which isn't useful and which I haven't
bothered to try to figure out why (because this is my first experience with
Cortana since I had turned it off for the past two years on the OS that was
bricked).

In fact, there's a lot less typing involved when
using the Search box versus the Run box or a Command Prompt. You rarely
need any path info, for example.

What you bring up for "Cortana snip" has merit ... but ... Cortana is
essentially the definition of idiocy in that it's not random what it
returns, but it may as well be random, at least compared to what "Start
Run" returns.

What I'm trying to say is that there is idiocy involved in beginning to
learn how to use a system that is essentially random in what it outputs.
Sure, for "snip", it outputs what Microsoft wanted it to output, but what
if you reversed the letters "nips" (for, say, a programs called that?

What would happen if you typed "nips" into Cortana?

Who the heck knows (ahead of time) what you'd get.
That's the problem with Cortana.

It's essentially random (for all intents and purposes). Sure, there's an
algorithm, but you're running a search for heaven's sake. A search for an
arbitrary string I must remind you.

At least with "Start Run" you'll /always/ get the same results no matter
what string you type, simply because it's /not/ a search, but a specific
path-based command line.

Two completely different things.
1. Start Run is a logical path-based command finder, while,
2. Cortana is essentially just a rather stupid search engine.

Would you have preferred that they call the Search box by another name?
Is it "Search" that you object to?

What I object to is the unkempt disorder of Cortana randomness.

A. When I type "nips" into "Start Run" I know /exactly/ what happens.
B. Who on earth knows what happens when you do that with Cortana?

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:12:58 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote:

In contrast, I have always turned Cortana off because I see no value in a
search engine so that I can find my black socks in my black-sock drawer,
and my white socks in my white-sock drawer.


The value of Cortana has nothing to do with things like that. It's
value is that for many people, it's a lot easier and faster to speak a
question than to type it.

I never turn Cortana off. To me, there's zero value on doing it. But
despite what I said above, I rarely use it.

And despite my hardly ever using Cortana, I often ask questions
vocally on my Android phone. I can type well enough on my desktop's
keyboard, but I'm terrible typing on a phone's on-screen keyboard.

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:39:58 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

Would you have preferred that they call the Search box by another name?
Is it "Search" that you object to?

What I object to is the unkempt disorder of Cortana randomness.

Thank you for the detailed response. My experiences don't quite match
yours, but no two people use it the same way.

"Jonathan N. Little" wrote:


You can also press "Windowskey+PrintScreenKey" which will put the
screenshot in your User folder in

C:\Users\yourname\Pictures\Screenhots\*


Thanks from me also.
Sorry didn't see original post.

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Regards
wasbit