Do you know that you spend a goodly amount of time trying to find 'that shortcut to that program' in Windows' Start Menu?
Well, you'll love Launchy then. It's a small piece of program expressly designed to streamline your life around and away from the Start Menu.
No more hunting for application shortcuts! Just press Launchy's shortcut key (defaults to Alt-Space, but I changed it to Win-Space), and up pops a skinned box, in which you can type the letters of your shortcut.
For instance, to run QuickPar, all I have to do is press Win-Space, type "qui", and voila! Launchy shows the icon and shortcut name for QuickPar. I only have to press Enter, and QuickPar runs.
Or, if I want to start up FireFox, I can press Win-Space, type "fox" . . . lo and behold! Launchy can even match strings within a shortcut!
Or maybe you want to quickly open a website. I only need to press Win-Space, type "www.google.com", and my default browser opens up www.google.com. And it can do some neat tricks, like instant-search in Google with the helpful 'pipe' ( | ) symbol:
No more hunting for shortcuts; download and install Launchy right now!
Note: The latest Launchy version (1.25) is not compatible with Windows Server 2003. Use the older 1.0 version instead.
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