Make "Everything" by VoidTools show up first in Windows Search

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I use VoidTools Everything search tool instead of Windows' built-in search. On my desktop and laptop, hitting the Windows key and typing "Everything" would make that tool show up first on the Start menu, which means that I could add the Enter key to the mix and quickly open the tool. That has become muscle memory for me when searching.
Ever since a recent Windows update, a new option shows up on the start menu, above Everything: "Make everything bigger" in system settings. This only happens on my desktop, making the process to quickly open the tool different on different computers. I want the "Search Everything" app to show up first, so that it's selected first and hitting enter just opens it.
Alternatively, I could change my muscle memory to type in "Search" (which makes "Search Everything" show up first, for now at least), or add a press of the down arrow to get to the next options down, but I'd really prefer to adjust the search results within Windows if possible. Any ideas?

harrymc · Answer

You don't need to run Everything from the Start menu.
Everything will show an icon in the traybar if in
Options > General > UI you enable "Show tray icon".
A double-click on the icon will start Everything
(with much less muscle action).
This also requires the option of "Run in background".
Everything will also add an entry to the context-menu in Explorer.
You may right-click any folder and choose "Search Everything..." in order to
invoke it on this folder.
Keyboard oriented methods are:
Move the keyboard focus to the traybar with Win+B,
where you may select the Everything icon using the arrow keys
and execute with Space or Enter.
You may also put an Everything icon on the desktop, right-click it and
select Properties, then in the "Shortcut" tab define a keyboard shortcut key
for launching it directly.

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