I have this weird obsession with needing to have a perfectly organized, clean, clutter-free desktop at all times. I almost find it hard to work sometimes knowing that behind my browser window there may lurk a disorderly mess of shortcut icons and unorganized files. I assure you this has nothing to do with the way I live the rest of my life because I think I define the word disorganized, but I digress…
Launchy is a great application and program launcher that not only allows you to quickly access items on your computer without going to your start menu or needing quick-start icons, but it’s also pretty much invisible until you summon it. Once installed, all you need to do to access your programs is hit alt + space bar and the Launchy window will appear. Just start typing in the name of whatever you’re looking for and Launchy will find it as well as auto suggest other possible matches. You can change the skin of Launchy and tell it what directories and file types you would like included in your results. There are also a bunch of skins and plug-ins that you can download here. If you want to quickly access a website from Launchy, you can do that too – you just need to add it in the catalog of websites in the plug-in, Weby. It’s a handy little tool that I’ve known about for a while but just never got around to trying out. Here’s my screencast tour of Launchy:
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