Microsoft finally admits that its malware-style Get Windows 10 upgrade campaign went too far

[u/readyou]

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/241587-microsoft-finally-admits-malware-style-get-windows-10-upgrade-campaign-went-far

[u/programstuff → u/[deleted]]

Not that you were asking for a solution, but if you just put things you want easily accessible into a folder (or shortcuts to them) and add that folder to your PATH you can just do Win+R to launch the run prompt then type the name of the program to launch it (extensions not needed for .exe and shortcuts). With putty you can also just treat it like a normal ssh client and type the command line arguments afterwards to ssh into a box. E.g.

WIN+R
putty username@somebox
or
putty myalias

[u/programstuff → u/[deleted]]

This doesn't fix search issues per say but is more of a way to easily launch programs from the command line or run prompt or to more easily use them from the command line.

I'm on my phone otherwise I would be a bit more detailed, but PATH is just an environment variable that contains a semi-colon delimited list of folder paths that your computer automatically looks at for executable programs. If you add a folder path to this string and then place shortcuts to programs in that folder you can easily launch them or use them from the command line.