Launchy - Command based program launcher

One of these days i discovered Launchy. Its a neat little command tool that will help you speed the starting of programs, and even searching the web.

Alt-space and it will pop up, ready to help.

The basic program launching feature works kinda like the Windows search thingy, but its way quicker.

You can customize it to include whatever files you want, from whatever folders you choose. By default it only searches for shortcut files in your start-menu and quicklaunch.

The feature I use the most is the Web launch. This is how that looks. Its basicly a very quick way to search your favourite sites, you dont even have to have your browser running.

"Youtube" -> tab -> "funny video" launches a search for "funny video" on Youtube.


How to set up your favourite search engines from the Options - plugins menu:

• Go to the site you want to include.
• Do a search for "test"
• Go to Launchy -> options -> plugins, select Weby and click the + at the bottom
• Now add the name and the adress of the site.
• Now go back to the site you did the search, copy the URL like the bolded part here:
• http://www.mysite.com/somethinghere?q=test
• That is, everything behind the basic site URL.
• Paste that into the Query field, and replace "test" with "%s" (without quotes)

Now your ready to search the web!

Im sure you will figure out how usefull this is when you start using it.

Go grab it at www.launchy.net