We recommend! Windows Vista’s search box on the Start menu is one of the operating system’s most useful new tools. It makes it easy to search your PC for files, programs, emails, and contact, and also to search the Web as well.
The free Start++ turbocharges that search box. It lets you create shortcut commands and aliases to perform all kinds of tasks, both on your PC and the Internet. For example, if you wanted to search Google for the term Nibelung, you could type “g Nibelung” at the search box, and press Enter, and it would launch the Google search for you, and display the results in your browser.
Advanced functions can work with search results, powered by Windows Vista’s integrated desktop search engine. For example, typing “play radiohead” will find all music that matches the query “radiohead”, compile the results into a .M3U file, and launch it in your favorite media player (actually, it only uses Windows Media Player for the moment, but that will change soon).
Features:
· Better responsiveness to queries for Start Gadgets
· Fewer intermediate Gadget updates while you’re typing, no longer a chance of “lost characters”
· Better keyboard and mouse interaction with Start Gadgets
· Fixed the default Dictionary gadget to have an OnSubmit handler as it was meant to
· Fixed the calculator gadget (and problems with any gadgets that use OnSubmit but have SubmitNewWindow set to false)
· Small UI clean-up for gadget rendering
· Fixed tab ordering for most of the configuration UI
· Fixed focus of UAC prompts when using commands like “sudo” from the start menu if the Secure Desktop switch is disabled
Download Start++ here
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