microsoft / microsoft/PowerToys

Command Pallete is not good at realizing commands from application names

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Issue-Bug Needs-Triage Product-Command Palette
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Description

### Microsoft PowerToys version

0.100

### Installation method

Microsoft Store

### Area(s) with issue?

Command Palette

### Steps to reproduce

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Searching for commands that are typed slightly different from application names are not helpful. Hence, command palette is not a replacement for the power run.

### ✔️ Expected Behavior

It recognizes the cmd and show that as the first option.

[Cache the exes that are in the directories of the PATH variable]

### ❌ Actual Behavior

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### Additional Information

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### Other Software

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Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start in the Command Palette area and reproduce the search described in the issue using the attached screenshots as the reference. The work is done when commands typed with names that differ slightly from application names are recognized as the first result, including executables from directories in PATH.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
c
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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