PowerToys Utilities in Start Search

[AdreKiseque]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Like how we can already set PT utilities to appear in PowerToys Run, it'd be nice to be able to have them appear in the regular Start menu search too.

Scenario when this would be used?

I typically prefer using the Start menu search instead of PT Run so this would make it easier for me to access different tools.

Supporting information

I'm gonna be honest I really just wanted to do this manually but couldn't find anything online, and this repo doesn't have discussions enabled for some reason so I couldn't just make a Q&A post like would be ideal. Either way this wouldn't be a bad feature, kinda weird they don't appear in Start search to begin with imo.
Anyway if anyone knows how to manually add them to the Start search index please let me know!

[DorsalAxe]

You can create shortcuts for the executables in the PowerToys installation folder and the "\WinUI3Apps" subfolder, and place them in
"%programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs" (to show for all users) or "%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs" (to show for just the current user). Any shortcuts in these folders or their subfolders will appear in the Start menu and should be indexed in search (using the default index settings).

Not every single executable works as a shortcut though (e.g. Color Picker won't work this way). Personally, I've done this just for Registry Preview, Hosts File Editor, and Environment Variables, and it works perfectly. I do think the way to access those three utilities in particular is kind of weird, so PowerToys adding Start menu shortcuts for at least these utilities by default would be a good improvement IMO.

[AdreKiseque]

Yeah, that could work. Ideally I'd like them just to appear when searched and not generally in the all programs list but I can compromise if need be.