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• Suppose you have a large number of of softwares and utilities installed, and your startmenu is spanning across a huge amount of the screen real-estate, then if often becomes a real problem when you want to launch a program that you dont use regularly, because it kinda gets lost in the huge start menu ..

• And you cant use too many shortcuts in the quick launch, that only makes things messier…

• Suppose you are working on something completely immersed in your work, and you need to open some file that is nested deep within some sub folder in some partition on one of your hard disks ….

If YOU fit in any one of these situations … then this tool is Definitely for You ! Launchy is a smart and lightweight tool, that pops up when users press Alt+Space. Best of all, its small, and its sleek… and good lookin too

 

Launchy is a free windows 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!

 Below are shown various shots of Launchy in action, opening a variety of files and programs - in just a few taps of the keyboard.

        

Here are some tips that Launchy recommends.

• Search Google
  • Type in google, then tab, then your search query and press enter
• Check the Weather
  • Type in Weather, then tab, then your zip code or city,state and press enter
• Search other sites
  • Other sites you can search include wikipedia, msn, yahoo, amazon, netflix, imdb, and more.
• Browse your computer
  • Type in c:, then tab, then a folder or file, hit tab, and continue
• The Launchy Calculator
  • Did you know that Launchy has a built in calculator? Type in some algebra and see what happens!
• Index your Bookmarks & Folders
  • File Type: .url
• Index your Music
  • File Types: .mp3 .aac .ogg
• Index your Pictures
• Index your Documents
• Index custom Commands

And more..

Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher for Windows

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