Hi. I'm Brandon. I'm a geek, and I work on Search technology for Windows at Microsoft. This is my blog.
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February 22nd, 2007 at 7:16 pm
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February 22nd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
[...] had. Unless you have my tool, which for the time being I’m calling Start++. Download : Brandon Paddock’s Blog - Desktop Search and more » Start++ Download Page ————————- Advertisement [...]
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:04 am
[...] had. Unless you have my tool, which for the time being I’m calling Start++." Download: Start++ 0.2.1 [...]
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:42 am
[...] to a user named Suren who pointed out that multi-word web searches were broken. Check out the Download page to get the update. [...]
February 24th, 2007 at 2:00 am
[...] Download Start++ [...]
February 24th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Hey Brandon,
I think your tool is awesome. It brings back WDS to Vista almost in full.
Right now I’m having a little trouble with the ‘Play Media’ Action. Basically, any of the search actions that depend on Play Media are not working, as Media Player opens up when I run a query like ‘playartist eminem’ and gives me an error:
“Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.”
Do you know if I’m doing something wrong? I’ve tried setting the defaults to both WMP and iTunes, and get the same result
February 28th, 2007 at 12:34 am
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February 28th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
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March 1st, 2007 at 8:23 am
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March 1st, 2007 at 9:49 am
Cool! A real must-have!
March 3rd, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Brandon:
I am having the same problem as Danish Munir, and, as commented elsewhere, by Ken. I believe it may be because my user name is two words. Is this fixable on my end?
JB
March 5th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
For some reason Simple Commands adds question marks randomly in the Arguments when executed. im using winamp to play pls streams btw.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Start Is All That And Then Some…
Start Is All That And Then Some…
March 7th, 2007 at 2:53 am
Start released for Windows Vista…
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March 7th, 2007 at 2:58 am
I love it I cant wait to see where it ends up. I’d love to see it working on top of powershell, so you could access objects in .net applications
March 7th, 2007 at 6:37 am
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March 7th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
[...] Microsoft-Mitarbeiter Brandon Paddock hat ein Tool namens Start++ geschrieben, das die Möglichkeiten des Suchfelds im Vista-Startmenü erweitert. [...]
March 8th, 2007 at 3:53 am
When I try to installe the new version, I get an error box saying “The process cannot access the file …AppData\Local\Start++\LNKs’ because it is being used by another process”. I have uninstalled the previous version. This also happened every time I tried to save the config in the old version. It really bugs me as Start++ is a very cool app. What is going on?
March 8th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Fehaar - does rebooting or logging off and back on solve the problem? Something must be locking one of the files used by Start++. If you started an application using Start++, it’s possible you need to close that application. I haven’t heard any other complaints about that problem, but it’s on my list of things to investigate.
March 8th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
[...] Brandon Paddock’s Blog - Desktop Search and more » Start++ Download Page (tags: vista windows add-ons search tools hacks) [...]
March 10th, 2007 at 11:52 am
[...] El programa es totalmente configurable, y una guÃa de uso se incluye en el paquete, el cual se puede descargar desde aquÃ. [...]
March 12th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I had task manager up and noticed that start++ is using some CPU (1%) even though I am not running it, don’t have a cmd window open or the start menu. What is it doing?
March 14th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Hi Brandon!
I made a series of little VB programs a few years back (http://www.shax.com/programming/tools/superrun/) to do the exact same job, only with the run box back in XP. I never got round to making it easily configurable though.
I got so used to tapping the keyboard shortcuts and since yours uses the same concept (and is clearly better) I’ve switched over! Thanks so much for making Start++, it shaves many valuable seconds off little jobs.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
I couldn’t live without it.
May I suggest a quick alarm clock / countdown timer for the next gadget?
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:48 am
[...] 0.4.2 is now up on the download page. Mostly bug fixes, and only one new feature which is pretty specific to a friend who wanted [...]
March 25th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
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April 11th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
I thought you were a Microsoft bluebadge–why is your site loaded with “Adds for Google” logos. Brandon Live should be powered by Live…
April 11th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Jeffrey -
Until Microsoft / Windows Live offers a similar service to Adsense, I don’t really have many options!
April 26th, 2007 at 6:31 am
[...] http://brandonlive.com/startplusplus/download (setzt das .NET Framework vorraus) Aliases Home Praxistipps Start++ [...]
June 25th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Same deal for me:
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The process cannot access the file ‘C:\Users\——\AppData\Local\Start++\LNKs’ because it is being used by another process.
Some changes may not have been saved.
Try closing any applications started via Start++ and trying again.
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OK
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I’ll fool around with it some more, but to this date, I’ve never been able to make config changes regardless of closing applications opened with Start++.
Otherwise, love the app and am looking forward to some free time to config’ing some startlets.