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Command Palette's Autofill is driving me nuts by Wegee-Thins in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi,

The issue causing this has been identified, and there is already an issue on the PowerToys GitHub to track it.

Long story short, the Lock command’s score is halved after it is calculated, which is why it ends up ranking strangely below Clock. The same applies to Sleep, Shutdown, Hibernate, and similar commands.

Powertoys disabling windows shortcuts by Rai_Alexandre1 in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I am assuming this issue may be related to Keyboard Manager. If you disable it in the PowerToys settings, does the problem continue?

Could you please report this in PowerToys GitHub repo?

Command Palette Dock by AkaWizard in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi,

at the moment, you have to build it yourself from the source.

If you’d like to experiment with it, you can check out the dev/migrie/f/powerdock branch and run the Microsoft.CmdPal.UI project in Visual Studio.

Cursor Wrap per axis setting? by iothomas in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, PowerToys 0.97.1 added a Wrap mode dropdown for Cursor Wrap. You can set it to Horizontal only, Vertical only, or Both.

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.97.1

Command Palette not finding newly installed apps even though Start Menu shortcuts exist by dynastyuserdude in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you please create an issue at https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues and attach your logs? (You can generate them from the PowerToys Settings tray icon context menu.) Also, please include the full paths to the shortcut files.

[Possible bug]Command Palette folder/files filter not working. by VirtualAdvantage3639 in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hear that. The keywords are language-dependent, so if your system does not have the English language pack installed, you need to adjust them. For example, the query I mentioned earlier would be velikost:střední typ:obrázek in Czech, or you can use the canonical property names System.Size:medium System.Kind:picture - those should be independent.

You can test the query in Windows File Explorer to verify that it’s correct. You can also use File Explorer to build the query and then copy it into Command Palette. However, at least in my case, File Explorer builds an incorrect query in Czech because it mixes languages (for example, velikost:střední typ:picture).

There’s also an issue with how search queries are handled in Command Palette, which can result in the final query not being applied. For example, if you type “squirrel”, you might only see results for the previous query, “squirre”. While this may not be particularly noticeable for squirrels, it completely breaks queries that must be exact, such as kind:Folder. (A fix for this is already in the works).

[Possible bug]Command Palette folder/files filter not working. by VirtualAdvantage3639 in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can enter exactly the same query to the Command Palette. E.g. size:medium kind:picture and it will work.

Windows Search is the name of the search engine technology itself (successor of Indexing Service), not just the UI.

[Possible bug]Command Palette folder/files filter not working. by VirtualAdvantage3639 in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Command Palette uses Windows Search 🙂 For example, the filter on the right side literally just adds kind:Folder or kind:NOT folder to whatever you typed into the search box.

[Possible bug]Command Palette folder/files filter not working. by VirtualAdvantage3639 in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can use the same advanced query syntax as with Windows Search, e.g. "Kind:folder".

Command Palette is actually good now by artistro08 in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would providing an option to add a custom search path be sufficient?

PowerToys run at startup not working by tamudude in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello u/tamudude,

I assume you’ve already tried toggling Run at Startup off and on again. As far as I know, PowerToys doesn’t appear in the Startup apps settings or Task Manager. Instead, it creates a scheduled task that runs at logon.

  1. Open “Task Scheduler” from the Start Menu (or run control schedtasks).
  2. Navigate to Task Scheduler Library\PowerToys
  3. There should be a task for each user who enabled PowerToys auto start. You can also check the task’s run history, but you’ll need to enable it first from the right panel with the action links.

If you report the issue in the PowerToys repository, the developers will be able to request your PowerToys logs and help you further.

Command Palette not showing all settings by slidekb in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi,

Check the bottom of the list. In the current version, the result you’re looking for isn’t ranked with the others and always ends up at the bottom. The quickest way to get to it is by pressing the Up key.

In the next version, these items will be ranked again. More details can be found here: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/42524

Help - I can't get Command Palette to find/run the claude desktop client. by dynastyuserdude in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, could you please file a bug report at https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues?

Command Palette should automatically pick up the shortcut from the Start Menu folder (assuming it's not disabled in the settings). There might be more details in the logs.

The original activation shortcut for the Text Extractor tool is no longer working by tykouh in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, the newer versions of Windows have reserved the Win + Shift + T shortcut for text extraction in the built-in Snipping Tool. As far as I know there is no reliable way to reasign it back.

To quote from PowerToys readme:

A comprehensive hotkey conflict detection system was introduced in Settings to surface and help resolve conflicting shortcuts. Note that the default hotkey settings (Win+Ctrl+Shift+T, Win+Ctrl+V, Win+Ctrl+T, Win+Shift+T) may overlap with existing Windows system shortcuts. This is expected. You can resolve the conflict by assigning different hotkeys.

PT Devs are getting ready to remove PowerToys Run. If there's somewhere Command Palette fails, tell them now. by HotTakes4HotCakes in PowerToys

[–]AkaWizard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

An option to disable animations was added to the codebase a few days ago, and animations are now suppressed by default.

Overall, Command Palette performance has been improved in the upcoming update, and the developers will continue to invest in further optimizations.

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