Features
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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
66,108
- Requirements:
Windows 2000/XP
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
November 06, 2008
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Previous Versions:
Publisher's description of Launchy
Launchy is 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.
Version 2.0 has been completely rebuilt using Qt toolkit with a new look, better skinning support, simplified options, and other new features and improvements. Skins, plugins, and configurations for previously version of Launchy may not work with Version 2.0.
Version 2.1.2 includes unspecified updates.
Editor's review of Launchy
5.0 stars
- "Hot keys for fast apps"
This very handy tool lets you open nearly any program, file, folder, or Web site on your system with just a few keystrokes. Launchy is called from the background with a hot key combo, and a small, skinnable box pops up.
Enter the first few letters of a file or program, and Launchy automatically displays the rest of the name. You simply press Enter to open or launch it. If the displayed name isn't the item you want, a few seconds later the tool displays a drop-down list with other likely candidates from which you can choose. In our tests, we were easily able to configure the tool to choose from multiple directories among our system's other users' folders. Besides files, folders, and apps, Launchy also displayed site names from our default browser's Favorites file.
This easy-to-master tool--free and unlimited--performed without a hitch in all our tests, and soon may completely replace our using the Start menu or Windows Explorer. We recommend it for any user.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 84 votes
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Version: Launchy 2.12
Pros: Handy
Cons: Just copying Keybreeze, but doesn't have the same add-ons, yet
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Launchy 2.12
Pros: after watching the reveiw it didtn win mw over i like cliking to programs i get to them faster than typing
Cons: by the time i get the program up ill be in my start menu after i have finished typing what i was looking for i could have the program i was looking for started allready
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Version: Launchy 2.12
Pros: It's a great idea and really clever software .
Cons: because i am not used to this type of desktop i'm not sure whether i like it that much as yet.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Launchy 2.12
Cons: it don't work. how do I get rid of it now?
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Launchy 2.12
"Beware, unable to uninstall!"
Pros: Beware if you need to remove this as it does not possible via control panel (add/remove) programs or by My Computer, Services etc.
Cons: Cannot remove this! - Help.
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