[Fannon]

This is something that is really puzzling to me, how such a basic and useful feature can be broken for years. It's annoying me since the release of Windows 8.

Keyboard Launchers like Keypirinha (also used Launchy back in the days) are my current workaround. They can index what the start menu should be indexing and do it right. I also keep my own (synced) folder of shortcuts that I add to the indexing.