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Wox is a launcher for Windows, an alternative to [Alfred ](https://www.alfredapp.com/ ) and [Launchy ](http://www.launchy.net/ ). You can launch everything with just a few keystrokes!
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# Demo
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# Features
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1. Search all applications, folders, files, [bookmarks ](http://www.getwox.com/plugin/16 ).
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2. Search Web using keyword (e.g. search google with `g search_term` )
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3. Build custom themes in [http://www.getwox.com/theme/builder ](http://www.getwox.com/theme/builder )
4. Install plugins from [http://www.getwox.com/plugin ](http://www.getwox.com/plugin )
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5. Use **pinyin** to search programs / 支持用 **拼音** 搜索程序 e.g. yyy / wangyiyun -> 网易云音乐
# Installation
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1. Download
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1. Latest stable version: [release page ](https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/releases ).
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2. Latest build: [English guide ](https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/wiki/FAQ-English#how-to-install-latest-build ), [中文说明 ](https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/wiki/FAQ-%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87#%E5%A6%82%E4%BD%95%E5%AE%89%E8%A3%85%E6%9C%80%E6%96%B0-build )
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2. Unzip it and put it into your user directory (`C:\Users\YOUUSERNAME` or `%userprofile%` )
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3. Windows 10 user, please have a look at https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/issues/279
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# Simple Usage
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- Launch: < kbd > Alt</ kbd > +< kbd > Space</ kbd >
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- Install/Uninstall plugin: type `wpm install/uninstall`
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# Contribute
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If you are a developer, please feel free to send a pull request to the **Dev** branch. We still have a lot of features and bugs to resolve. Take a look at [issues page ](https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/issues ), especially for [help_needed ](https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Ahelp_needed ) labeled issue. :)
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If you are not a developer, please try **Pre-release** in [Releases ](https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/releases ) and report bugs.
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# Docs
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Full documentation can be found here [Wox doc ](http://doc.getwox.com ). This is a good place to start if you are installing Wox for the first time.
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In the future, all of the documentation will be moved back to Github wiki.
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# Development / Author Status
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- [x] unified directory `%APPDATA%` for all storage
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- [ ] bring unitest for wox back
- [ ] add autoupdate / installer
- [ ] disable plugin properly
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