BUG: Program plugin does not search correctly in `Start Menu` folder

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Problem Description

From what i can see, it searches in Start Menu/Programs but not Start Menu directly.

Desired search path:

C:\Users\TheBestPessimist\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

For example, it doesnt find this shortcut:

"C:\Users\TheBestPessimist\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Zoner Photo Studio X.lnk"

To Reproduce

1. Search for program Zoner Photo Studio X

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Flow Launcher Version

1.12

Windows Build Number

win 11

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[VictoriousRaptor]

LocalisedName should be irrelevant to this issue because it’s not related to description. The reason why you can search zoner in the first case (first row of your cool table) possibly is the name of the .lnk file contains zoner.

[taooceros]

Actually it is performing the index for every single new startup, but just await them (prevent flow from showing up) when cache is not available.

Yes, that is what i said as well. My question is why not cancel if cache exists?

pseudo code i suggest:

if cache
    taskLoad1.cancelExecution // do not waste resources
    taskLoad2.cancelExecution // do not waste resources
else
    await taskLoad1 taskLoad2

I am curious what kind of program really stored in StartMenu

Zoner Photo Studio X (see picture in OP for path) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You seems to be able to index zoner photo studio?

yes, with my merge request 😃.

Do you have opinions about my other suggestions and comments?

To accommodate he situation you have mentioned 😃 Even though it is not awaited, the task will still update the field

This startup logic has another problem: say FL crashes, i install a new software, then restart FL (or restart laptop which restarts FL): at this point FL cannot know of the new software, simply because there is no way for it to be announced that something changed on my system in the past. So me as a user am forced to click reindex.