Walk

Walk is a quick launcher for Windows.

It sits in the system tray and opens a small search box so you can do common actions from one place:

• launch apps
• calculate expressions like 2+2
• convert currencies like 100 USD to EUR
• run system commands like lock
• launch Windows Run targets like services.msc, shell:startup, or ms-settings:display
• search files instantly with bundled indexed search, including queries like *.pdf
• browse folders and paths like C:\Windows

What It Feels Like

Press the global hotkey, type what you want, and hit Enter.

Walk is built for fast keyboard use with a simple floating UI, result list, and tray-based background app behavior.

Current Status

This is an early Windows-only project built with .NET and WPF.

Current features include:

• app search from Start Menu shortcuts and executables on PATH
• calculator results inline in the launcher
• cached currency conversion
• clipboard history search for text, files, and images with clip, clipboard, or cb
• emoji and symbol picker with emoji, em, symbol, sym, or :
• quicklinks with aliases and parameterized targets like gh walk or ql add Docs = https://example.com/{query}
• Windows Run commands, settings URIs, and shell folders
• recent Run command recall
• bundled fast file search with wildcard and filename queries
• direct path browsing for folders and partial paths
• tray icon and auto-start support
• installed-build auto-update support

File search is self-contained. Walk now ships a bundled Everything runtime for fast indexed filename search, so end users do not need to install any separate search tool.

Run It

dotnet run --project .\src\Walk\Walk.csproj

Test It

dotnet test