Horrible shortcoming - Selected Search Result is not really selected

This is terrible for keyboard use!

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I may be wrong, but for some reason I have a memory of this not being a problem on early versions of Start8.

To demonstrate this shortcoming/bug:

I often want to open cmd.exe in elevated mode (I actually use TCC/LE, but cmd.exe is more well known)

In Vista and Windows 7, I could pres Start, then start typing cmd, then simply press the Menu key to get the right-click context menu to select 'Run as administrator' of Shift-Menu to get 'Run as a different user'.

With Start8 it is necessary for me to reach for the mouse to do this and then go back to the keyboard to use cmd.exe.

I do this several times a day, everyday, so I really hate the fact that Start8 lacks this ability.  Is there any chance of this getting fixed?

Start8 is even better than the Win7 Start menu and I am very happy with it otherwise (the only other omission I am aware of is the inability to open shell links, but I do this very rarely and I can use Win+R for that anyway).

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I was searching the forum to see if anybody else has this problem with Start8 and I found a guy who mentions it, along with All Programs not being keyboard navigable.  I had not noticed that myself, but that is another shortcoming which would sadden me if I needed to look for a program that I could not remember the name of.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

The ability to use the menu key on the keyboard to bring up the right click menu on the selected search item is something thats already been added to internal builds, so that should be addressed in the next update.

I will get the shell links looked into for the next update too.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Regarding launching things as elevated, you can also do this by holding ctrl + shift down while pressing enter.