I stopped using the Windows Start menu after finding this brilliant free launcher

I hate seeing app shortcuts clutter my desktop, so I removed all of them and pinned only my most-used apps to the taskbar. The problem was I still needed to open other apps, folders, and files throughout the day. The Windows Start menu worked, but it felt clunky. Every time I had a window open, I had to move my cursor to the bottom of the screen, click the Windows icon, and start searching.