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Command Palette Replace Windows search

Open Fefedu973 opened this issue 7 months ago • 3 comments

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Please add the ability to replace the windows search. It is muscle memory

Scenario when this would be used?

Everytime i want to search smth

Supporting information

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Fefedu973 avatar May 02 '25 12:05 Fefedu973

To be totally clear - what do you want to replace?

  • the win+s keyboard shortcut?
  • the search icon in the taskbar?
  • Searching when you press win and start typing?
  • something else?

zadjii-msft avatar May 02 '25 20:05 zadjii-msft

Searching when you press win and start typing

Fefedu973 avatar May 02 '25 20:05 Fefedu973

Also is there a way to activate command palette with the new copilot key? The combo can be set to win+shift+f23 when pressing the copilot key but it does not work.

MountComb avatar May 03 '25 02:05 MountComb

Completely remapping the windows key to palette would be great in the feature. I think nobody is using windows search at all, who uses pallete/run.

CoennW avatar May 13 '25 18:05 CoennW

Seems like the settings explicitly does not allow setting the windows key as the shortcut for this. Is there a way that it can be "unblocked" to allow it?

sakgoyal avatar Jun 26 '25 19:06 sakgoyal

Hi, I've made a program that achieves this functionality if you are still interested. Feel free to try it out!:

https://github.com/ArjunC1234/WinKey_CommandPalette_Replacement

ArjunC1234 avatar Aug 22 '25 19:08 ArjunC1234