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Launchy

Open Source by Josh Karlin | Link to website

Launchy is a free Windows and Linux utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes. NOTE: According to SourceForge, no updates of any kind have been made for over a year (as of 1st Dec 2011), so this project may possibly be discontinued. The software is still used widely, however, so this may no... More info »

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Productivity

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application-launcher, plugins, keystroke-launcher +3 more, extensible, start-menu, launch-bar

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varmemester-image

Just wonder...

Comment by varmemester about Launchy Aug 2011

...if this app is still being developed? Seems a year have gone by since the last opdate.. (2.6)

Great app though.

 
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karden-image

Launchy is absolutely brilliant! Actually, I have never use ...

Comment by karden about Launchy Jun 2011

Launchy is absolutely brilliant! Actually, I have never used Windows start menu after I installed it. Not only Launchy lets you run any app just in second, but it also significantly simplifies working with various online services (like search, translation, bookmarks etc). Via plugins you can extend its functionality even more.
And of course there is a bulit-in calculator :)
 
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OmgItsTheSmartGuy-image

I'm not clear on how this is better than the search bar bui ...

Comment by OmgItsTheSmartGuy about Launchy Jul 2010

I'm not clear on how this is better than the search bar built into the Start Menu of Windows 7.
 
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PingLu-image

very very nice program! Since i use this app i've got rid o ...

Comment by PingLu about Launchy May 2010

very very nice program! Since i use this app i've got rid of all my quick launchicons! :]

If you try this app, try typing in "google" [TAB] "word you want to search", i've added wolfram alpha, dict.leo.org...

All in all it makes my workflow so much faster!!
 
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Maksym-image

Very handy, I hardly use my start menu anymore and even use ...

Comment by Maksym about Launchy Nov 2009

Very handy, I hardly use my start menu anymore and even use it for most little calculations over MS Calc.

It got a bit slower under Windows 7 however, but that might be just me.
 
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