Today I was talking with my friend Etienne Margraff – also know as Emmanuel – (blog and twitter)and I told him how boring and time-consuming it was to press Win+F to access the search screen on my windows 8 application. Two fingers are too much for me !
Then he gave me a very useful tip to gain in productivity: instead of pressing Win+F, just press the Win key and start typing the name of the app you seek. The search screen will then appear by magic displaying the found results 🙂
This is in fact the behavior of Windows 7 start menu but I forgot it :-s ! Maybe because of all this flashy metro tiles !
Regards,
15/09/2011 19 h 19 min
during the keynote it was also mentioned that you could just start typing without pressing any 'windows' key ?! can you confirm?
15/09/2011 19 h 22 min
Hello anonymous 🙂 : You can effectively start typing to launch the search but only when you are inside the start menu. (pressing the win key actually launch it and confirms this behavior )
15/09/2011 19 h 40 min
I need to install Windows8 as well 🙂 sounds really cool.
I picked this one up from Twitter
from @rschu:
I guess I’m missing something here. How can I get the Program Menu on the Win8 desktop? Clicking on the Win logo changes to Metro.
reply:
@andrejt: @rschu start typing the name of the app or just press a and backspace (delete). The app list should appear.
That mentions the behavior i’m referring to, but that seems to work from the win8 desktop, not from the metro view.
15/09/2011 19 h 42 min
I need to reinstall win8 but I\’ll try it for you 🙂
22/09/2011 7 h 19 min
@Anonymous – it works on the Metro start screen as well.