ဒီေကာင္ေလးက windows 8 သမားေတြမွမဟုတ္ပဲ XP, 7 သမားေတြပါ
အသံုးျပဳလို႔ရတဲ့ Start Button ေလးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
မိမိတို႔စိတ္ၾကိဳက္ ပံုေလးေတြနဲ႔ ဖန္တီးနုိ္င္ျပီး Freeware ေလးလည္းျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။
အျခား အခေပး start button ေလးေတြရွိၾကေပမယ့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ သံုးျဖစ္
ေနတာကေတာ့ ဒီေကာင္ေလးပါ။ အခုေနာက္ဆံုးဗားရွင္းေလးမို႔အားလံုး
သံုးလို႔ရေအာင္တင္ေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္ဗ်ာ။
Billed , Start menu replacer for Windows 8,it's the free Power8
displays a Start button in the usual spot on the desktop. Clicking on
that button brings up the familiar two-pane menu. From the left pane,
you can pin your favorite applications and access all your programs via
the Programs menu. From the right pane, you can open specific folders,
such as Computer, Libraries, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and
Network.
Alt+Z hotkey
Power8 uses Alt+Z hotkey to show Start Window, like Windows itself reacts on "Windows" key.
The idea originally was to use "Win+Z" hotkey, but starting Windows8, Win+ combinations are prohibited.
When
you press Alt+Z, Power8 determines the location of the Mouse cursor and
shows the window in the closest desktop corner possible.
Pressing Alt+Z again will close the window.
Menu buttons
- All 5 menu buttons have submenus that contain items.
- For
Computer and Libraries (Documents on XP) the items are read and
expanded only on demand (when you hover the parent menu item with
mouse).
- Computer, Libraries and Administrative tools are updated
automatically when a file system change occurs and this or parent item
was already extracted/shown to the user.
- Network and Control
panel items aren't refreshed. Restart Power8 when you installed new
control panel element or changed network location if needed.
- All menu items have a context menu that will allow you to Open item, show it's Properties and so on.
Computers List
When
there are more than 10 computers over network available (like if you're
in Enterprize-size domain), only 1st ten entries will be shown. All
others are accessible via "Computers List" window, that is shown when
you click "Show more..." menu item.
This window allows you to
quickly search for required computer and open it by double-clicking the
entry. Note that when computer is unreachable, "My Documents" window may
be opened, or an error message may be shown.
It is planned that
there will be a specific configurable context menu with items such as
"Start Remote Desktop here" and similar. Fell free to post suggestions
for the out-of-box preconfigured items.
Search
There are 3 ways to search using Power8.
Internal search
This is the search over everything known to Power8 itself:
- Start menu;
- Items displayed in Computer or Documents menu-butons;
- Control panel elements;
- Network neighborhood;
- MFU list (recently launched applications);
- (also, Jump lists search will be probably implemented later).
Minimum
search length for this search is 2 characters, so "no" will already
bring you Notepad up. Query string is being looked for in elements'
path, description or target path if current element is a Link. This
search is immediate. Found elements are grouped according to item under
which they were found. Example of the internal search is on screenshot
above.
Starting from 1.0-1.1 the Internal search works in 2 modes in parallel:
- raw search - as described above, "no" will bring you the "notepad";
- camel
search - much more complicated way to search your computer. It searches
specific strings constructed from certain characters from the item's
title, description and so on. It's simpler to show some examples:
- "paf" will bring you "Programs and Features";
- "pvz" will bring you "Plants vs. Zombies";
- "nfs" will bring you... yes, the NeedForSpeed or something in it's folder.
Windows Search
This
search type uses Windows Search engine and can be launched along with
internal search. However, to run it, you must have Windows Search
enabled on your PC. It is done on W7/W8 by default, but can be switched
off. In this case there will be no search results using this search.
Windows Search is used to search system-known FILE elements, with your query as both:
- Full-text search (Caption/Header/Title and content of documents);
- Wildcard search over files' names.
Note that unlike Internal Search, your query is checked with file names only while using Windows Search (to make it faster). Minimum
search length of query text is 3 characters, however since it is
full-text search, you may prefer using somewhat longer queries for it.
Compared with W7 Search window, Power8's queries to Windows Search
service provide more results than in W7 Start Menu and less results than
in Search system window. This search is deferred: when you type a
query, it will start only when no key is pressed during 2/3 of second.
By
default, Power8 will display only top 50 unique (on the file path
level) results of top 100 returned by Windows search. When checking
uniqueness, internally returned results are also taken into account.
You
can also limit the search results to specific file extension. The
format of such query is "extension|query text". When Power8 detects a
separator ("|") in a query, only Windows Search occurs, you'll receive
no Internal Search results.
The rule about 3 search text chars is still valid for Limited Windows Search, thus the search won't occur for query "mp3|wh".
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Benefits:
- No system files patching;
- No hooks over system objects;
- No app-init DLLs;
- No additional services, drivers, etc;
- No trash in registry;
- No installation - just unpack and launch;
- Small, fast and powerful;
- Open-source;
Version 1.4.4 Beta (v.1.4.4.628): 12.09.2013
- [new] Arabic localization;
- [changed] Enhanced error handling. Now we get more information in case somethin goes wrong;
Version 1.4.3 Beta (v.1.4.3.619): 14.07.2013
- [new] Windows 8.1 Preview support including, but not limited to:
- hiding of MS start button when P8 works;
- P8's main button has minimum size now equal to 15 px (width of ShowDesktop button on W8);
- incorrect taskbar buttons positioning on exit;
- [new]
Option to exchange the Start Menu with Search bar when taskbar is
horizontal at the bottom of the screen. Benefit is that you have to less
draw mouse from Power8 main button to Start Menu;
- [new] Simplified Chinese localization;
- [changed] Updated translations for all except de, es, fr, zh-TW;
- [fixed] Invalid focus after double Alt+Z;
- [fixed] Display of certain localized CPL items under non-Unicode environment (proper version of LoadString() used);
- [unconfirmed fix] Issue19:
no feedback from issue reporter, but I hope the bug is fixed now.
NullReferenceException when Admin Tools folder cannot be inferred from
Start Menu;
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