- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
- Date added: March 28, 2007
- Total Downloads: 76,407
- Downloads last week: 534
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 116 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This very handy tool lets you open nearly any program, file, folder, or Web site on your system with just a few keystrokes. Launchy is called from the background with a hot key combo, and a small, skinnable box pops up.
Enter the first few letters of a file or program, and Launchy automatically displays the rest of the name. You simply press Enter to open or launch it. If the displayed name isn't the item you want, a few seconds later the tool displays a drop-down list with other likely candidates from which you can choose. In our tests, we were easily able to configure the tool to choose from multiple directories among our system's other users' folders. Besides files, folders, and apps, Launchy also displayed site names from our default browser's Favorites file.
This easy-to-master tool--free and unlimited--performed without a hitch in all our tests, and soon may completely replace our using the Start menu or Windows Explorer. We recommend it for any user.
Publisher's description
From Josh Karlin :Launchy is 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.
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User reviews of Launchy 1.03
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 116 votes
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Version: Launchy 1.03
Pros: I install this on all my Windows XP systems. Need I say more? It's great!
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Version: Launchy 1.03
"must have for every windows user"
Pros: it reminds me of run in linux ...great pice of software
Cons: nothin
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Launchy 1.03
"Great for finding files and directories"
Pros: Besides easily launching programs, what I really find useful is the ability to very quickly find files and directories by name, a bit like a specialized Google Desktop - less powerful but incredibly fast. This is especially useful to me as some files of interest are in my root directory, some in my wife's, and some in the Shared Documents folder (on XP).
Cons: It's a little klunky accessing the menus, and the need to add a bunch of file types by hand is slightly inconvenient, but these are minor quibbles, and once it's set up you can forget about it.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Launchy 1.03
Pros: easily opens applications, much easier than the start menu or windows explorer
Cons: sometimes when gaming the keyboard shortcut is accidentally pressed
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Launchy 1.03
"This is a great program and is very easy to use."
Pros: It gives quick access to files, it easy to customize directories to index, and looks cool.
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