![]() ![]() Just throwing icons on the desktop is not really my thing, because then I have to deal with minimizing all open windows to access it. They can't be freely placed, either, they are arranged in rows sort of like iOS. On Windows 11, I think you can only pin 18 items before having to scroll through them. The most common stuff I have pinned to the taskbar, but the Start menu has easily 80+ apps available at a glance. So, opening an app is just Windows key + click, even faster than typing in the search bar. It's laid out in a way that makes sense to me and I know where everything is. Since Windows 8, I've adopted an approach of pinning basically everything that I could need to the start menu. Not because of Live Tiles, that was a nifty feature but I never saw it used in a way that was "useful" other than maybe the weather app tile. I for one will miss the Windows 10 Start menu. You can launch it by hitting Windows + R and typing "regedit." Click Yes if prompted. The Search box does absolutely nothing when you click on it and the Taskview, in my experience, almost always crashes, causing icons even of open apps to disappear temporarily, so in other words, don't click it, or better yet, hide it, which we'll show you how to do.ġ. This taskbar looks and feels a little bit more like the Windows 10 taskbar and has a Search box and a Task View button. However, in order to get Open-Shell to use a Windows 10 Start button icon, you need to enable the classic taskbar in the Registry. If you've installed Start11 or StartAllBack, the programs will automatically enhance your taskbar with some options so we recommend that you skip this section. 100 stars if I could give them.Another possibility is to uncheck Replace Start Button in Open-Shell's options menu and use the classic taskbar hack (see below) and then you'll get a clickable, Windows 10-style Start button. To me, that level of unobtrusiveness is one of the "features" I love about LaunchBar. I notice it's not LaunchBar, but it's SO MUCH better than learning to use the Mac in a novel, unusual fashion and then feel utterly crippled on someone else's Mac. I simply resort to using OS X Spotlight with the same keyboard shortcut. Oh, and the funny thing about it is that I don't feel crippled when I have to work on a Mac without LaunchBar. The whole thing flows so naturally for me that I often forget that it's there. Snippets are simply a bunch of text files in a folder, so there is no vendor lock-in, and editing and updating my snippets are very straight-forward because of that. I use it for launching apps, maintaining a large number of snippets for coding, run word, and character count instantly, access all my contact instantly, move things around, find folders, and so on. And I love how it's minimalist on the surface but provides an infinite number of functionalities that genuinely save time and remove workflow friction. I love that it adjusts to my habit, not the other way around like most other apps. I love how it requires almost no maintenance hassle. I like that it is just a stand-alone, standard Mac app that doesn't tweak the system unnecessarily. I tend to steer clear of "system enhancement" utilities for many reasons, but I consider this one an excellent exception to the rule. It is one of the most essential third-party utilities on my Mac. I've been using LaunchBar since around 2002, way before Apple came up with Spotlight search. Running High Sierra (10.13.3), LaunchBar 6.9.4 here. Removed “Lock Screen” and Fast User Switching actions on macOS Big Sur and later, because macOS has removed the ability for third party apps to trigger these functions.Dropped support for Chromium and Opera web browsers. ![]() Changed keyboard shortcut of “Open in Action Editor” from Command-Return to Shift-Command-E.Fixed a layout issue in the Options pane of the index window.Fixed incorrect display of icons with non-square aspect ratios.Fixed built-in “Set Desktop Background” action.Fixed indexing of Firefox bookmarks and history.Improved browsing of an application’s recent documents to indicate if a document would by default open with a different app.Improved appearance of drag & drop highlight while dragging items onto the LaunchBar window. ![]()
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