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A New tool for Vista: Start++

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/a-new-tool-for-vista-start.50436/

anandk
anandk Original post #1
Feb 23, 2007 at 7:03 PM
"Users of WDS on XP may recall the “Deskbar Shortcuts” functionality that allows you to create little aliases between words or characters with commands and searches. For example, you could set up the Deskbar so that you could type “g Stuff” to search for the work “Stuff” on Google. You could also launch programs, run scripts with parameters, and more.
*brandonlive.com/pictures/StartPlusPlus/screen1.jpg
Windows Vista replaced the Deskbar with Instant Search built-in to the Start menu, which is totally awesome. Unfortunately, it lacks all of that fun shortcut functionality that the Deskbar had. Unless you have this tool, which for the time being is called Start++"

*brandonlive.com/2007/02/22/new-tool-i-made-for-vista-start/
47shailesh
Feb 23, 2007 at 7:33 PM
Hey cool find Anandk
shantanu
Feb 23, 2007 at 8:17 PM
you can also get that back like XP in vista just right click on start menu and enable that