What is the keyboard shortcut to bring out the search window where I type in the name of the program, it will show me and I can click on it and run the program?

It is not find files/folders because that was meant for finding files/folders


And I have grub/Win8/Mint and the Mint can access the Win partition well, and it mounts automatically which is what I want, but it gives the Windows partition a name that is very long and not human friendly.

how can I give it a more human friendly name?

But it is not a major problem, everything runs very fine, and if it is not possible I will live with it.

Mint rocks by the way. At least for me. It is basically Ubuntu without any commercial feeling.

Do you mean either Alt + F2 or Alt + F3 ?

Which Desktop Environment? Which Mint Version? A

will be useful.

Mint with KDE

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=174627
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=94645

I suppose you are referring to the UUID for the windows partition. You can create your own mount point with a user friendly name and put an entry in the /etc/fstab file for it. If you wanted to call the partition win8 just do: sudo mkdir /mnt/win8

You can find a lot of examples for windows entries in the fstab file, depends what kind of access you want from Mint.

Probably easiest to label the NTFS filesystem - Mint will probably mount by that by default.