Was this really necessary?
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As much as I hate windows… I do like being able to store certain file types to different drives. Wish it was a bit more advanced.
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Win+E that will open up a new explorer window.
Middle-click on the Explorer in the Taskbar
Ctrl+N when in an open explorer window
How do I make this damn File Explorer button to just open new File Explorers and nothing else, I just want to spam these open while having older folders open
It used to work that ways back when you could actually Google answers, like, 10 years ago?
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Not quite sure what you mean…
Win+E open a new window with whatever you defined as the opening folder when opening an explorer window (usually “This PC”)
Ctrl+N duplicates the current explorer window (including history).
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Yes that file explorer icon should just open infintely new folders without me having to touch keyboard,
I know that scroll wheel click does that, but I just want it to do that from regular mouse 1 clicks, I dont need any other functions 
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From the rules
Linux is not a one stop shop. Linux is not a be all, end all solution. Linux has problems on the desktop that prevent it from having mass adaptability through the enterprise. All of these subjects should be saved for another thread, and in the Linux section. As much of a d-bag I’ve been in the past, I’m trying to help shape this into a better community, as should you (not you, you, but all of us). L1T is not a Linux forum, it is a technology forum. Windows falls under that category and people should not feel attacked based on their workflow.
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Oh I think I see what you mean…
You mean once you clicked the Explorer Icon in the taskbar that button just acts as a placeholder for the opened window, so you can’t open more explorer windows from the same icon?
Well, that is possible with Middle click as mentioned above.
I think there was also an option for that, so the icon stays an icon only, at least some programs work like that… might be because they have some weird launchers tho.
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I have noticed winkey+1-9 works more reliably for pinned apps and switching between instances of pinned apps
Start menu search still garbage compared to wox or launchy tho
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Did not know that you can open those pinned things like that
Going to rebind my M95 numpad or macro keys to win+123…, have to just try and see which one works better 
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Yeah problem with the search is it finds… a lot, and a lot that is not relevant. Also the order in which things appear doesn’t seem consistent. Like on Windows 8 and lower you could just type, hit enter while the result wasn’t even shown and it would open whatever application you were looking for. The new search sometimes lists something different in the first result and you just randomly happen to launch Edge or whatever.
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How do you use it? I’ve gotten used to just typing what i want through using GNOME so often. Meta + type stuff. This seems to work really well in windows, at least with later versions.
I must confess it has been a while since I’ve used Windows 10. The feature I liked was the ability to roll back to my original o/s after test driving it. Ooops! My apology. That feature also failed. I had to call Microsoft to get my original o/s back. A funny thing happened though on the way back to Windows 8.1. . . Microsoft’s backup software failed to restore the sytem image and the personal files. Aaaaw shucks. Who woulda thunk? Good thing I had copies of the more serious stuff on a different o/s on a different PC. Gotta love Win-Doze! 
Exactly that behaviour is what I found to be more reliable on older versions. Win10 results aren’t consistent imo (see above).
Or did you mean later Win10 versions? Because then yes, it seems to have gotten better.
Got any examples? I’ve been finding it pretty reliable. first result is always the most relevant, at least for me.
Not really any examples as it happens randomly. Sometimes it will list a file as the first result when I search for the name of an application.
In general it finds the application first, but occasionally it doesn’t. And that’s just annoying and frustrating because it will open a random app that the file happened to be bound to.
The same happens with online results every now and then. It seems to be in whatever order it found the results, and sometimes the indexer seems to be slow on returning a result. I can’t really explain it to be honest.
What also used to happen (I haven’t had it in a while, but Wendell mentioned it recently). When you type the first few letters of an app name, it will find that app. But if you type just a key more it will sometimes find something completely different, and/or not the application at all.
It doesn’t happen often, but that’s what makes it annoying.
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First thing I’m noting from using these macro keys to do Win+123…
Any binds to close that pinned 1?
Would need that combo move to use next song button with another player
Also I would set Gimp to close itself as I just use it as resizer, cutter, png exporter, it just doesnt need to be open
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You mean a shortcut to close an open application? How about Alt+F4?
I can do pictoral guide to these binds, why? I need it myself 
Meta=Windows Key
Taskbar pins=Windows Key+1-9
Btw if anyone plans on using this with multi monitor taskbar (set up to only show applications on their respective monitor)… apparently it only works with the main monitor taskbar 
This one is really old but still useful. I think I was shown this way back in the 9X days. It still works in Win10.
Place the icon for notepad on the desktop. Drag any file over the icon and release, it will open in notepad if notepad can open it. Useful for looking at cfg, ini and other configuration files without breaking file association.
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