Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Launchy


This is one of my favorite tools.
Launchy is the most efficient way to open files, folders, websites, and programs on your computer. Nobody likes to hunt through the start menu to find an application, just to find that the application is hidden under some obscure folder named after a company you have never heard of! Instead, Launchy is a smart search program which tries to guess which program or file you are looking for and will launch it when you hit the enter key. It is only visible when you hit the alt+space key combination; otherwise it hides in the background. Once you have used it for a few days, it becomes an indispensable utility for your computer. And it’s free!

I try to keep my Start menu very organized, but there really isn't a way to get to the program (or folder) I want more quickly than this. Launchy learns how you like to refer to programs becoming more efficient the more you use it. After using it a while on an unstable machine, I found it remained a reliable way to open a shortcut even if the whole desktop and Start menu had crashed.

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