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PowerToys Run results are not properly sorted #20812

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The result list of PowerToys Run needs to be optimized or better give options how the result list should be sorted. Here is an example how it goes terrible wrong:

If you do a simple search for "vlc" the sorting is totally contra productive, why does it not show the most logiv result in first line, for vlc.exe? the correct one obviously you want to open with the most "hit chance" is vlc seen here in line 4 (the last in find results...).

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Even if you overwrite with proper filename like "vlc.exe" the result list is wrong / not optimized. In the case of "vlc.exe" it should totally just give in first result the vlc.exe not any arbitrary short cut results like seen here:

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This issue happens every time when there are multiple short cuts, in this case with VLC. Obviously the most case by using Run is to open a Windows program, a preinstalled one with higher chance than just some file anywhere on disk. And opening the raw file application also has obviously a higher hit chance than some short cuts with line arguments.

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