free download Launchy

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free download Launchy

Description

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!

Once Launchy has been started, it hides in the background. You bring it forward by holding the ALT key and tapping the SPACE key. You then type in a few keys of the program you are searching for and hit ENTER once it has been found. You can also make Launchy dissappear again by hitting ESCAPE or ALT+SPACE. You can customize which key combination launches Launchy.

Launchy is developed to run on XP, however you can try downloading the gdiplus.dll and unzipping it into your Launchy directory to get it to run with Win2000.

You can extend and customize Launchy with many themes and plugins developed by its thriving user community.

Technical

Launchy

Title: Launchy 2.5
Filename: Launchy2.5.exe
File size: 4.34MB (4,551,394 bytes)
Requirements: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Languages: en-US
License: Open Source
Date added: April 8, 2010
Author: Josh Karlin
www.launchy.net
MD5 Checksum: 6113BE1006FDC8C1C1711BA507377644

Change Log

- Faster performance
- Better behavior on Linux
- OS X now supported
- Icons displayed correctly
- Environment variables updated correctly when system changes
- Controly includes more items
- New shortcut keys
- New controls:
> Shift+tab or Shift+bkspc deletes previous tab
> Shift+Ctrl+Enter launches in elevated mode (Vista and Win7)
> Down arrow shows history (when there is no current search text)
- Default skin built into executable in case no other skin is found
- Launchy now has an icon in the system tray
- Skins are simplified and easier to create
- Directory browsing auto-completes correctly