Installed Apps Seach function

[Hike]

I was planning on completely replacing the windows 10 search with everything search. I had a trouble on searching my installed apps, it searches the executable/shortcut files. I was wondering if its possible to search installed app as a priority search

[NotNull]

Do you mean a list of all the applications in your start menu?

In that case, you could:

• Select Menu:Search > Organize Filters
• Click on the New button
• Fill in the fields:

  Code: Select all

  Name : Installed Apps
  Search : shell:"start menu" | shell:"common start menu"   ext:lnk

• Press the OK button
• Press the OK button
• Done.

Now you can select Menu:Search > Installed Apps and type in the Everything search bar a few letters of the name of the application (like: Excel)

Bonus: You can show a dropdownlist of all filters next to the search bar through Menu:View > Filters.
Bonus 2: You can make this "Installed Apps" filter the default one when you start Everything by setting the default filter (under Menu:Tools > Options > General > Home)

[harryray2]

@notnull..good tip.

Do you have any idea how I could do the same (if possible) for my shortcuts items that show when I click the start button on Windows 7?

[therube]

Shell: folder shortcuts

So maybe, shell:"user pinned".


(Never realized I had win32pad "pinned" to my Start Menu.
I've got other stuff on my Start Menu. No idea how that gets there either, particularly. Never use it.)

[harryray2]

Thanks, it didn't really work, I suspect the entries are contained in the registry.

The ss64 website is useful though.

[raccoon]

Start menu entries are not contained in the system registry. The search bookmark works fine for me in Windows 7.

ext:lnk <shell:"common start menu"|shell:"start menu"|shell:"user pinned">

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
C:\Users\EasterBunny\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
C:\Users\EasterBunny\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned

I prefer just using the start menu.

(Note: It is important to use bracket grouping in forum examples because users change their AND>OR priority setting.)

[harryray2]

It's not the start menu I'm after..it's the entries that appear when the start button is clicked (or the windows key is pressed).

I looked through the registry and the entries are buried in:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer