Program Of The Week: Launchy

If you like linux you may have come across an application called Katapult which you can use by hitting alt + space which will then bring up a screen where you can type a name of a application such as kcalc which will then be launched, I’ve been looking for a similar thing for windows as if you look at my start menu you will see that I’ve attempted to order everything but its just too many folders to look through, so I started my hunt and found Launchy.

Launchy is very easy to customize you can have it search any directory for any file for example all my mp3’s are on Z drive at a whopping size of 40gb’s which makes it hard to look for a song so i just added that to the index and had it just search for a file type of .mp3, it also finds your applications by looking at your start menu location such as C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs in that it will look for the .lnk files and place them in the index.

It does more than that though, if your a fan of Firefox it will also index all the bookmarks so for example say i want to launch the web-mastery website I can just type in their title which is webmaster forums and it will show up the bookmark.

Another part i like about Launchy is the calculator no I’m not kidding it has one of the best calculators I’ve seen in it you can just type in 2+2 and it shows for you an keep going its brilliant for anyone who needs to workout sums at speed.

One of the good things is this can also be put on a USB flash drive but that is for an article to come.