Microsoft has quietly launched an up to date Highlight-like launcher app for Home windows that gives fast entry to instructions, apps, and improvement instruments. The software program maker initially launched its PowerToys Run launcher for Home windows 10 practically 5 years in the past, and the up to date model — Command Palette — now contains seek for apps, folders, and information, calculations, system instructions, and far more.
Command Palette is out there for any Home windows consumer from the PowerToys app, nevertheless it appears like Microsoft is now concentrating on this specific utility at energy customers and builders. You utilize Command Palette to entry Home windows instructions or launch command prompts and shell shortcuts. Command Palette additionally has the power to rapidly open web sites, net searches, and search by means of folders and information such as you’d anticipate from a Highlight- or -Alfred-like interface.
Microsoft has additionally moved its earlier Window Walker PowerToy into Command Palette so you may simply swap between open home windows. Essentially the most fascinating half about Command Palette is that Microsoft has made it absolutely customizable due to extensions help so you may add extra instructions and options past what’s out there by default.
The PowerToys Command Palette has been out there since early April, and you may activate it utilizing the Win+Alt+Area shortcut as soon as it’s put in. Microsoft says “Command Palette is meant to be the successor of PowerToys Run,” however each are nonetheless out there for now. Microsoft made some tweaks and modifications to Command Palette this week forward of its Construct developer convention on Could nineteenth.