Add the Command Palette module (#37908)
Windows Command Palette ("CmdPal") is the next iteration of PowerToys Run. With extensibility at its core, the Command Palette is your one-stop launcher to start _anything_.
By default, CmdPal is bound to <kbd>Win+Alt+Space</kbd>.
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This brings the current preview version of CmdPal into the upstream PowerToys repo. There are still lots of bugs to work out, but it's reached the state we're ready to start sharing it with the world. From here, we can further collaborate with the community on the features that are important, and ensuring that we've got a most robust API to enable developers to build whatever extensions they want.
Most of the built-in PT Run modules have already been ported to CmdPal's extension API. Those include:
* Installed apps
* Shell commands
* File search (powered by the indexer)
* Windows Registry search
* Web search
* Windows Terminal Profiles
* Windows Services
* Windows settings
There are a couple new extensions built-in
* You can now search for packages on `winget` and install them right from the palette. This also powers searching for extensions for the palette
* The calculator has an entirely new implementation. This is currently less feature complete than the original PT Run one - we're looking forward to updating it to be more complete for future ingestion in Windows
* "Bookmarks" allow you to save shortcuts to files, folders, and webpages as top-level commands in the palette.
We've got a bunch of other samples too, in this repo and elsewhere
### PowerToys specific notes
CmdPal will eventually graduate out of PowerToys to live as its own application, which is why it's implemented just a little differently than most other modules. Enabling CmdPal will install its `msix` package.
The CI was minorly changed to support CmdPal version numbers independent of PowerToys itself. It doesn't make sense for us to start CmdPal at v0.90, and in the future, we want to be able to rev CmdPal independently of PT itself.
Closes #3200, closes #3600, closes #7770, closes #34273, closes #36471, closes #20976, closes #14495
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TODOs et al
**Blocking:**
- [ ] Images and descriptions in Settings and OOBE need to be properly defined, as mentioned before
- [ ] Niels is on it
- [x] Doesn't start properly from PowerToys unless the fix PR is merged.
- https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/556 merged
- [x] I seem to lose focus a lot when I press on some limits, like between the search bar and the results.
- This is https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/427
- [x] Turned off an extension like Calculator and it was still working.
- Need to get rid of that toggle, it doesn't do anything currently
- [x] `ListViewModel.<FetchItems>` crash
- Pretty confident that was fixed in https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/553
**Not blocking / improvements:**
- Show the shortcut through settings, as mentioned before, or create a button that would open CmdPalette settings.
- When PowerToys starts, CmdPalette is always shown if enabled. That's weird when just starting PowerToys/ logging in to the computer with PowerToys auto-start activated. I think this should at least be a setting.
- Needing to double press a result for it to do the default action seems quirky. If one is already selected, I think just pressing should be enough for it to do the action.
- This is currently a setting, though we're thinking of changing the setting even more: https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/392
- There's no URI extension. Was surprised when typing a URL that it only proposed a web search.
- [x] There's no System commands extension. Was expecting to be able to quickly restart the computer by typing restart but it wasn't there.
- This is in PR https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/452
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Co-authored-by: joadoumie <98557455+joadoumie@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jordi Adoumie <jordiadoumie@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Mike Griese <zadjii@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl>
Co-authored-by: Michael Hawker <24302614+michael-hawker@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Stefan Markovic <57057282+stefansjfw@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Seraphima <zykovas91@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jaime Bernardo <jaime@janeasystems.com>
Co-authored-by: Kristen Schau <47155823+krschau@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Johnson <ericjohnson327@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ethan Fang <ethanfang@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Yu Leng (from Dev Box) <yuleng@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Clint Rutkas <clint@rutkas.com>
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Add the Command Palette module (#37908)
Windows Command Palette ("CmdPal") is the next iteration of PowerToys Run. With extensibility at its core, the Command Palette is your one-stop launcher to start _anything_.
By default, CmdPal is bound to <kbd>Win+Alt+Space</kbd>.
----
This brings the current preview version of CmdPal into the upstream PowerToys repo. There are still lots of bugs to work out, but it's reached the state we're ready to start sharing it with the world. From here, we can further collaborate with the community on the features that are important, and ensuring that we've got a most robust API to enable developers to build whatever extensions they want.
Most of the built-in PT Run modules have already been ported to CmdPal's extension API. Those include:
* Installed apps
* Shell commands
* File search (powered by the indexer)
* Windows Registry search
* Web search
* Windows Terminal Profiles
* Windows Services
* Windows settings
There are a couple new extensions built-in
* You can now search for packages on `winget` and install them right from the palette. This also powers searching for extensions for the palette
* The calculator has an entirely new implementation. This is currently less feature complete than the original PT Run one - we're looking forward to updating it to be more complete for future ingestion in Windows
* "Bookmarks" allow you to save shortcuts to files, folders, and webpages as top-level commands in the palette.
We've got a bunch of other samples too, in this repo and elsewhere
### PowerToys specific notes
CmdPal will eventually graduate out of PowerToys to live as its own application, which is why it's implemented just a little differently than most other modules. Enabling CmdPal will install its `msix` package.
The CI was minorly changed to support CmdPal version numbers independent of PowerToys itself. It doesn't make sense for us to start CmdPal at v0.90, and in the future, we want to be able to rev CmdPal independently of PT itself.
Closes #3200, closes #3600, closes #7770, closes #34273, closes #36471, closes #20976, closes #14495
-----
TODOs et al
**Blocking:**
- [ ] Images and descriptions in Settings and OOBE need to be properly defined, as mentioned before
- [ ] Niels is on it
- [x] Doesn't start properly from PowerToys unless the fix PR is merged.
- https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/556 merged
- [x] I seem to lose focus a lot when I press on some limits, like between the search bar and the results.
- This is https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/427
- [x] Turned off an extension like Calculator and it was still working.
- Need to get rid of that toggle, it doesn't do anything currently
- [x] `ListViewModel.<FetchItems>` crash
- Pretty confident that was fixed in https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/553
**Not blocking / improvements:**
- Show the shortcut through settings, as mentioned before, or create a button that would open CmdPalette settings.
- When PowerToys starts, CmdPalette is always shown if enabled. That's weird when just starting PowerToys/ logging in to the computer with PowerToys auto-start activated. I think this should at least be a setting.
- Needing to double press a result for it to do the default action seems quirky. If one is already selected, I think just pressing should be enough for it to do the action.
- This is currently a setting, though we're thinking of changing the setting even more: https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/392
- There's no URI extension. Was surprised when typing a URL that it only proposed a web search.
- [x] There's no System commands extension. Was expecting to be able to quickly restart the computer by typing restart but it wasn't there.
- This is in PR https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/452
---------
Co-authored-by: joadoumie <98557455+joadoumie@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jordi Adoumie <jordiadoumie@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Mike Griese <zadjii@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl>
Co-authored-by: Michael Hawker <24302614+michael-hawker@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Stefan Markovic <57057282+stefansjfw@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Seraphima <zykovas91@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jaime Bernardo <jaime@janeasystems.com>
Co-authored-by: Kristen Schau <47155823+krschau@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Johnson <ericjohnson327@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ethan Fang <ethanfang@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Yu Leng (from Dev Box) <yuleng@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Clint Rutkas <clint@rutkas.com>
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<value>A short keyword used to navigate to this command.</value>
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</data>
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<value>Go home when activated</value>
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<value>Automatically opens the home page upon activation</value>
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<value>Highlight search on activate</value>
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<value>Selects the previous search text at launch</value>
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<value>Show app details</value>
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<value>Controls if app details are automatically expanded or not.</value>
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<value>Backspace goes back</value>
</data>
<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_BackspaceGoesBack_SettingsCard.Description" xml:space="preserve">
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<value>If the search field is empty, backspace returns to the previous page</value>
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</data>
<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_SingleClickActivation_SettingsCard.Header" xml:space="preserve">
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<value>Single-click activation</value>
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</data>
<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_SingleClickActivation_SettingsCard.Description" xml:space="preserve">
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<value>Choose how to interact with list items: single-click to activate, or single-click to select and double-click to activate</value>
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</data>
<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_About_SettingsExpander.Header" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Windows Command Palette</value>
</data>
<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_About_SettingsExpander.Description" xml:space="preserve">
<value>© 2025. All rights reserved.</value>
</data>
<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_About_GithubLink_Hyperlink.Content" xml:space="preserve">
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<value>View GitHub repository</value>
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</data>
<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_About_SDKDocs_Hyperlink.Content" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Extension SDK docs</value>
</data>
<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_SendFeedback_Hyperlink.Content" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Send feedback</value>
</data>
<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_NavigationViewItem_General.Content" xml:space="preserve">
<value>General</value>
</data>
<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_NavigationViewItem_Extensions.Content" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Extensions</value>
</data>
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<data name="SettingsButton.[using:Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Automation]AutomationProperties.Name" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Open Command Palette settings</value>
</data>
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<data name="ActivationSettingsHeader.Text" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Activation</value>
</data>
<data name="BehaviorSettingsHeader.Text" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Behavior</value>
</data>
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<data name="ContextFilterBox.PlaceholderText" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Search commands...</value>
</data>
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<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_ShowSystemTrayIcon_SettingsCard.Header" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Show system tray icon</value>
</data>
<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_ShowSystemTrayIcon_SettingsCard.Description" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Choose if Command Palette is visible in the system tray</value>
</data>
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<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_DisableAnimations_SettingsCard.Header" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Disable animations</value>
</data>
<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_DisableAnimations_SettingsCard.Description" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Disable animations when switching between pages</value>
</data>
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<data name="BackButton.[using:Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Automation]AutomationProperties.Name" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Back</value>
</data>
<data name="BackButton.[using:Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls]ToolTipService.ToolTip" xml:space="preserve">
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<value>Back (Alt + Left arrow)</value>
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</data>
<data name="MoreCommandsButton.[using:Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Automation]AutomationProperties.Name" xml:space="preserve">
<value>More</value>
</data>
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<data name="TrayMenu_Settings" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Settings</value>
</data>
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<data name="TrayMenu_Close" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Close</value>
<comment>Close as a verb, as in Close the application</comment>
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</data>
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<data name="Settings_ExtensionPage_Alias_DirectComboBox.Content" xml:space="preserve">
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<value>Direct</value>
</data>
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<data name="Settings_ExtensionPage_Alias_InDirectComboBox.Content" xml:space="preserve">
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<value>Indirect</value>
</data>
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<data name="Settings_ExtensionPage_Alias_PlaceholderText.PlaceholderText" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Enter alias</value>
</data>
CmdPal: Replace Tapped events with generic ones (#40640)
## Summary of the Pull Request
Click event on WinUI buttons handle more than just click and is more
versatile that Tapped event. When you tap a Button with a finger or
stylus, or press a left mouse button while the pointer is over it, the
button raises the Click event. If a button has keyboard focus, pressing
the Enter key or the Spacebar key also raises the Click event.
This PR also replaces the right-tapped event on items on the list page
with context menu handling, allowing other input gestures (such as
Shift+F10) to also display the context menu.
And finally, it adds a button to the status messages badge so that the
flyout can be opened using the keyboard.
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- [x] **Closes:** #40616
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- [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized
- [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated
- [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places
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for new binaries
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installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs)
for new binaries and localization folder
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Tested on desktop with keyboard and mouse (no cats), and SB2 with touch
and pen. Input gestures seem to work as intended.
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2025-07-29 11:58:39 +02:00
<data name="StatusMessagesButton.[using:Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Automation]AutomationProperties.Name" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Show status messages</value>
</data>
<data name="StatusMessagesButton.[using:Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls]ToolTipService.ToolTip" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Show status messages</value>
</data>
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<data name="NavigationPaneClosed" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Navigation pane closed</value>
</data>
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<data name="NavigationPaneOpened" xml:space="preserve">
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<value>Navigation page opened</value>
</data>
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<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_AllowExternalReload_SettingsCard.Header" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Enable external reload</value>
</data>
<data name="Settings_GeneralPage_AllowExternalReload_SettingsCard.Description" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Trigger reload of the extension externally with the x-cmdpal://reload command</value>
</data>
<data name="ForDevelopersSettingsHeader.Text" xml:space="preserve">
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<value>For developers</value>
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</data>
CmdPal: Hide search box on content pages [experiment] (#41479)
## Summary of the Pull Request
CmdPal now displays the search box only on pages that derive from
ListPage. On ContentPage (forms, etc.), the search box is hidden.
- Moves keyboard shortcut handling from SearchBox to ShellPage so
shortcuts are always handled.
- Keeps the search box hidden/disabled to preserve layout metrics.
- Refines focus management to prevent focus jumps during navigation.
- For ContentPage page's content gains focus automatically (not just
form inputs, but now markdown content as well - so you can scroll
immediately, for example).
- Adds accessibility (a11y) tweaks: when navigating to content pages
without a visible search box, sets an explicit focus target so screen
readers announce a meaningful element. Screen reader will now announce
navigation to the page.
- Adds a title to the main list page - "Home".
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f60d0826-df1f-468e-8e41-0266cd27878b
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## PR Checklist
- [x] Closes: #38967
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- [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass
- [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized
- [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated
- [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places
- [ ] [JSON for
signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json)
for new binaries
- [ ] [WXS for
installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs)
for new binaries and localization folder
- [ ] [YML for CI
pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml)
for new test projects
- [ ] [YML for signed
pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml)
- [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request
on [our docs
repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys)
and link it here: #xxx
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<data name="UntitledPageTitle" xml:space="preserve">
<value>an untitled</value>
</data>
<data name="ScreenReader_Announcement_NavigatedToPage0" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Navigated to {0} page</value>
</data>
Add the Command Palette module (#37908)
Windows Command Palette ("CmdPal") is the next iteration of PowerToys Run. With extensibility at its core, the Command Palette is your one-stop launcher to start _anything_.
By default, CmdPal is bound to <kbd>Win+Alt+Space</kbd>.
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This brings the current preview version of CmdPal into the upstream PowerToys repo. There are still lots of bugs to work out, but it's reached the state we're ready to start sharing it with the world. From here, we can further collaborate with the community on the features that are important, and ensuring that we've got a most robust API to enable developers to build whatever extensions they want.
Most of the built-in PT Run modules have already been ported to CmdPal's extension API. Those include:
* Installed apps
* Shell commands
* File search (powered by the indexer)
* Windows Registry search
* Web search
* Windows Terminal Profiles
* Windows Services
* Windows settings
There are a couple new extensions built-in
* You can now search for packages on `winget` and install them right from the palette. This also powers searching for extensions for the palette
* The calculator has an entirely new implementation. This is currently less feature complete than the original PT Run one - we're looking forward to updating it to be more complete for future ingestion in Windows
* "Bookmarks" allow you to save shortcuts to files, folders, and webpages as top-level commands in the palette.
We've got a bunch of other samples too, in this repo and elsewhere
### PowerToys specific notes
CmdPal will eventually graduate out of PowerToys to live as its own application, which is why it's implemented just a little differently than most other modules. Enabling CmdPal will install its `msix` package.
The CI was minorly changed to support CmdPal version numbers independent of PowerToys itself. It doesn't make sense for us to start CmdPal at v0.90, and in the future, we want to be able to rev CmdPal independently of PT itself.
Closes #3200, closes #3600, closes #7770, closes #34273, closes #36471, closes #20976, closes #14495
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TODOs et al
**Blocking:**
- [ ] Images and descriptions in Settings and OOBE need to be properly defined, as mentioned before
- [ ] Niels is on it
- [x] Doesn't start properly from PowerToys unless the fix PR is merged.
- https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/556 merged
- [x] I seem to lose focus a lot when I press on some limits, like between the search bar and the results.
- This is https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/427
- [x] Turned off an extension like Calculator and it was still working.
- Need to get rid of that toggle, it doesn't do anything currently
- [x] `ListViewModel.<FetchItems>` crash
- Pretty confident that was fixed in https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/553
**Not blocking / improvements:**
- Show the shortcut through settings, as mentioned before, or create a button that would open CmdPalette settings.
- When PowerToys starts, CmdPalette is always shown if enabled. That's weird when just starting PowerToys/ logging in to the computer with PowerToys auto-start activated. I think this should at least be a setting.
- Needing to double press a result for it to do the default action seems quirky. If one is already selected, I think just pressing should be enough for it to do the action.
- This is currently a setting, though we're thinking of changing the setting even more: https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/392
- There's no URI extension. Was surprised when typing a URL that it only proposed a web search.
- [x] There's no System commands extension. Was expecting to be able to quickly restart the computer by typing restart but it wasn't there.
- This is in PR https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/452
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Co-authored-by: joadoumie <98557455+joadoumie@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jordi Adoumie <jordiadoumie@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Mike Griese <zadjii@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl>
Co-authored-by: Michael Hawker <24302614+michael-hawker@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Stefan Markovic <57057282+stefansjfw@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Seraphima <zykovas91@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jaime Bernardo <jaime@janeasystems.com>
Co-authored-by: Kristen Schau <47155823+krschau@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Johnson <ericjohnson327@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ethan Fang <ethanfang@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Yu Leng (from Dev Box) <yuleng@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Clint Rutkas <clint@rutkas.com>
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