To access Keywords and other settings, choose the Listary icon from the system tray and select Options. The app has certain default keywords to choose from when you conduct a web search for popular sites including Gmail, Twitter, and eBay. The search bar goes a step further to offer access to favorites, recent items, and commands by expanding the ellipsis (three dots on the right of the bar) built into the bar itself. Once you start typing, you also see the options to search only files or jump into the Action menu with commands to cut, copy, paste, and more. The default hotkey for the app is hitting the Ctrl key twice. As soon as you complete the install and launch the app, it runs you through a quick tutorial highlighting basic search functionality. I am reassured that in four years when I turn to '11', TLB will be the first thing I install.Searching and launching applications with Listary is lightning fast. For nearly two decades using Windows without it has been unthinkable for me. I'm sure areas of code could be updated and the overall installation might be specifically modified for the limitations of '11'. In conclusion I would like to say, Hurrah! for the True Launch Bar. Even so, Microsoft's emasculation of the Taskbar remains unforgivable. I appreciate '11's move to motherboard hardware security. (An old fashioned Help file accompanies TLB.) Remember, though, migrating system functions to 'Settings' has advanced in '11', so not all of the old shortcuts work. Be patient to get it right and make abundant backups of TLB's configurations as you experiment. Independent TLB toolbars have their own setup protocol. Hint: if you know about '10's Quick Launch Folder and have a dual-pane, tabbed, File Manager operating in '11', it's a cinch to copy the shortcuts from your old TLB setup into the 'New World' of Toolbar Menu Virtual Folders. Align the TLB toolbar to the main compass point of your preference, hidden or not, and go to work. I simplified mine to one-icon width because it looked nice and did the job. At this moment I have not run into any limitations on the design / organization / implementation of the basic bar. Note carefully: the Toolbar width is entirely adjustable in '11'. I suspect most of the others will work equally well. I have only added the Clipboard Manager and Volume Control. Sufficient to demonstrate TLB's continuity: Utilities Menu display with Sub-menu — Again, this would be a prototype, not the definitive version of all '11's System 'tools' assembled in one place. Now, down to business: TLB toolbar with 'Windows System' Menu open. Good old Sidebar reigns on the right side of the Desktop! Obviously both have been 'called' for this screenshot. Here is my test bed Desktop, with TLB and new Taskbar displaying, the latter also 'hidden' at bottom. This is what TLB has become in '11': an independent, sizable, infinitely configurable, in this case vertically arrayed and hidden toolbar on the Desktop:Īll I care to say about '11's Widgets is that they are a functional nuisance and aesthetic abomination. That said, True Launch Bar remains hands down the most powerful and flexible utility for fundamentally improving Windows. That may change by 2025, but for the moment I see no benefit in this upgrade — just the opposite. I am not interested in re-creating one of my production machines with '11'. I knew from reports elsewhere that 8GadgetPack and Open-Shell run well on it, and after the straightforward additions of FileMenu Tools and DirectFolders, my particular goal was to determine the story with True Launch Bar. My aim was a setup and proof-of-concept test to see if I could build the equivalent 'Windows Infrastructure' in '11' that I have been running more or less consistently since Windows Vista. As a minor precaution, I specified Windows 7 compatibility for the TLB setup executable. My HP Pavilion laptop qualified for '11' and the virtual Windows 11 works well enough, with not all hardware mirrored from '10' but with audio operational in 'Enhanced View'. For the record, I am running 11 Build 22000.176 from the Beta Channel in a Windows 10 Pro hypervisor. Established Champ Challenged by Upstart Pretender — Right! The diminished Taskbar in 11 does not support 3rd party applications' customization — doesn't matter  TLB stand-alone toolbars achieve everything its original placement on the Taskbar did.
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