Launchy 2.5 Date added: April, 8th 2010 - (Open Source)

Launchy is a very convenient tool, which aims at making your life easier. It eliminates the need for the computer user to save numerous shortcuts or icons on its desktop, and can launch any application only with a few keystrokes.  The program runs in the background, and when you need to use it, you bring it forward, type in the first few letters of the application that you want to run, hit the Enter key, and that application is launched.

Launchy is very fast and extremely easy to use, highly customizable, and new programs can be easily indexed at any time.

Note: Launchy is a freeware and works under Windows XP, Windows 2000 (you need to download gdiplus.dll in order to run it under Windows 2000)

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