Anyone use Launchy?
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Perhaps not required if you're using Vista but if you're on XP... http://www.launchy.net/[^] The more I use it the more impressed I am. I love small, fast, focused and high usability apps. :) I only just discovered the inbuilt "dynamic" calculator as well. It was originally written in C# and then rewritten from the ground up in C++ and Boost. latest version uses Qt.
Kevin
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Perhaps not required if you're using Vista but if you're on XP... http://www.launchy.net/[^] The more I use it the more impressed I am. I love small, fast, focused and high usability apps. :) I only just discovered the inbuilt "dynamic" calculator as well. It was originally written in C# and then rewritten from the ground up in C++ and Boost. latest version uses Qt.
Kevin
Yep - can't live without it. Still playing catch-up with quicksilver (on OS X), but not too bad.
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Perhaps not required if you're using Vista but if you're on XP... http://www.launchy.net/[^] The more I use it the more impressed I am. I love small, fast, focused and high usability apps. :) I only just discovered the inbuilt "dynamic" calculator as well. It was originally written in C# and then rewritten from the ground up in C++ and Boost. latest version uses Qt.
Kevin
Yeah I am using it for long time now. It is must even on Vista! Vista start menu search only finds shortcuts in programs folder. You can configure launchy to find *any* type of files and any where on HDD. I have a folder which contains programs which doesn't need installation like sysinternals tools, windows powertoys and lot of other useful programs. Install launchy, point it to this folder with exe as file type and done. Life is so simple then. I cant imagine working without it. -Saurabh
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Yeah I am using it for long time now. It is must even on Vista! Vista start menu search only finds shortcuts in programs folder. You can configure launchy to find *any* type of files and any where on HDD. I have a folder which contains programs which doesn't need installation like sysinternals tools, windows powertoys and lot of other useful programs. Install launchy, point it to this folder with exe as file type and done. Life is so simple then. I cant imagine working without it. -Saurabh
I've only used Vista very briefly at work. So I was unaware of what it doesn't provide you with. Yes, the location configurability is super.
Kevin
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Perhaps not required if you're using Vista but if you're on XP... http://www.launchy.net/[^] The more I use it the more impressed I am. I love small, fast, focused and high usability apps. :) I only just discovered the inbuilt "dynamic" calculator as well. It was originally written in C# and then rewritten from the ground up in C++ and Boost. latest version uses Qt.
Kevin
I remember when it was C# based, I tried it. I may try it again to see how much it has improved. :-D
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Perhaps not required if you're using Vista but if you're on XP... http://www.launchy.net/[^] The more I use it the more impressed I am. I love small, fast, focused and high usability apps. :) I only just discovered the inbuilt "dynamic" calculator as well. It was originally written in C# and then rewritten from the ground up in C++ and Boost. latest version uses Qt.
Kevin
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Perhaps not required if you're using Vista but if you're on XP... http://www.launchy.net/[^] The more I use it the more impressed I am. I love small, fast, focused and high usability apps. :) I only just discovered the inbuilt "dynamic" calculator as well. It was originally written in C# and then rewritten from the ground up in C++ and Boost. latest version uses Qt.
Kevin
QuickSilver, similar to Launchy but on Mac OS, was one of the few apps I can remember instantly groking. Within a day I had gone from using the Dock (or on Windows, the Start Menu) for launching apps to using two or three key presses. Now I tremble with frustration whenever I use a Mac, Windows or Linux computer that doesn't have an app launcher like Launchy or QuickSilver. I even got my girlfriend to use it. I bet I can get my mom to use it too. p.s. the Dock is one of the stupidest elements of Mac OS X. The Start Menu on Windows is no holy grail but it is better than that daft Dock. p.p.s. Apple changed the behavior of Spotlight in Leopard such that it works more like an application launcher. I now use that instead of a 3rd party launcher.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
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At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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QuickSilver, similar to Launchy but on Mac OS, was one of the few apps I can remember instantly groking. Within a day I had gone from using the Dock (or on Windows, the Start Menu) for launching apps to using two or three key presses. Now I tremble with frustration whenever I use a Mac, Windows or Linux computer that doesn't have an app launcher like Launchy or QuickSilver. I even got my girlfriend to use it. I bet I can get my mom to use it too. p.s. the Dock is one of the stupidest elements of Mac OS X. The Start Menu on Windows is no holy grail but it is better than that daft Dock. p.p.s. Apple changed the behavior of Spotlight in Leopard such that it works more like an application launcher. I now use that instead of a 3rd party launcher.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Absolutely. I've never seen what's so great about the dock. You move the mouse over it and the damn icons move, makes it a real pain to use. The Start Menu is OK as long as you go with the classic version and customise it at the top level. After a while you learn how far to move the mouse to get to each item, there's no way you can do that with a scrolly slidey dock thing. Just don't open the Programs submenu: there be beasties in there.
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Perhaps not required if you're using Vista but if you're on XP... http://www.launchy.net/[^] The more I use it the more impressed I am. I love small, fast, focused and high usability apps. :) I only just discovered the inbuilt "dynamic" calculator as well. It was originally written in C# and then rewritten from the ground up in C++ and Boost. latest version uses Qt.
Kevin