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.

With typing the name of the program or file you wish to launch, Launchy automatically searches its list of programs for the closest match as the user types. When it finds the desired program, the user hits enter and it is automatically launched. Launchy is also fully skinable and you can download skins from Launchy forums, and deviantART.com.

Launchy automatically loads on boot and user can call it by pressing Alt + Space or a custom user hotkey.

Launchy also has the option to add folders and file formats to its catalog for indexing. Go to Options and add your Music or Video folder and also file types that you want to lanch.. example *.mp3 *.avi etc. or anything else and save your time with a little typing and pressing enter.

Lanchy can launch almost anything on a computer, including internet, games, music, and videos, etc.. Launchy can run Google, Wikipedia, MSN, and Yahoo searches, bringing the results up in the default browser. It launches bookmarks as required, supports plug-ins.

With Launchy you can expand the programs usability.

Links:

• Official Launchy site
• Download Launchy from SourceForge.net
• Pluggins for Launchy

Tags | Open Source, Software, Tools, Windows