Launchy is a utility designed to help users forget about the application menu, the icons on the desktop, and even the file manager.
Launchy indexes and launches applications, documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes.
Once Launchy has been started, it hides in the background. It is then brought forward by holding the alt key and tapping the space key. A user then type in a few keys of the program he or she is searching for and hits enter once it has been found. Launchy can be made to disappear again by hitting escape or alt+space.
Key Features
- Plugin Support:
- Weby – supporting google, msn, yahoo, live, weather, amazon, wikipedia, dictionary, thesaurus, imdb, netflix, and msdn websearch.
- Foxy – automatically load your Firefox bookmarks into the database.
- Calcy Plugin – simple math calculation.
- Command Line Parameters.
- Command History.
- Skins.
- Visual effects including opaqueness, fade in/out time, internet proxy.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
Website: www.launchy.net
Support:
Developer: Josh Karlin, Simon Capewell
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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