Launchy
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
The project seems to be no longer maintained: last stable version, 2.5, and beta version, 2.6 beta2, were released in 2010. The program works anyway and can be still downloaded from the official website.
Features
Properties
- Customizable
Features
- Portable
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Application Launchers
- Indexed search
- File Search
- Skinnable
- Relative Paths
Tags
- launch-bar
- desktop-search
- keystroke-launcher
- start-menu
Launchy News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
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What is Launchy?
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.
Launchy information
Developed by
Josh Karlin Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 3Alternatives
112 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
I've used this for years and generally recommend it.
Unfortunately it's getting a little bit buggy on Windows (10) as it's fallen out of support. It mostly still works but it doesn't scale well on larger screens and maybe every 3 months it forgets the preferences I have for it.
Still a good program and it's nice that it runs cross platform, but I've just switched to PowerToys Run which seems to have similar functionality: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run
Discontinued and doesn't properly support latest Windows 10 feature, such as apps installed via App Store. Also UI looks out-dated.
Noticed Launchy crashing on Win 10, and it seems others have, too. Running all these things together may have to do with it, and maybe changing program priorities may help. Not sure if there's a good reason to keep Launchy anymores considering it's abandoned and newer programs probably have more capability, but it might be good for keeping separate settings. 9/22 Doesn't require .Net like others.
Can someone tell me how can I exlude dir? Because I have backup on the drive and I dont wan't to move it or select more directories to bypass that selection.
I haven't seen an alternative even close in feature set and precision. A genuine time saver. Still works on Windows 10. And no, even though you can type your way to a program in Windows, it doesn't compare to Launchy where you use very fuzzy shorthand and still get what you want. The only program so far, that Launchy consistently fails to start is Microsoft Hyper-V Manager.
I used it all the time on Windows XP. I didn't think it would work on Windows 10, but it does. It's way, way more gentle on resources and incredibly accurate.
There is no need for the app anymore. Webpage was updated last in 2008.