Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo

Cheers for the heads up, great application!! I really like the way that they have already added search locations, such as your start menu, into the shortcut.

Took me a while to figure out where it had gone - Alt+space was the answer.

Now, I just need to stop pressing Win+Q :)

Very cool tool, I haven't tried it in years.

But I miss Slickrun's eye dropper for setting up new commands.

Do those launchers do something I'm missing that the Vista start menu search field doesn't?

@Dave,

Yes, they work.

@Dave: The Vista start menu is great for finding installed programs or documents, but it doesn't come close to a launcher in terms of features. A launcher like SlickRun (which is what I use) lets you specify command line arguments and starting directory for a particular app, and you can also name the alias whatever you want. For instance, I do "Win-Q, F, Enter" to open Firefox. With Vista's start menu, I'd have to look through the entire list of programs starting with "F" to find the one I wanted. I think Vista's menu is great, but I still use SR :)

@JP: Can you elaborate on exactly what new feature or ability of Launchy made you drop SR altogether?

Launchy definitely needs "magic words" before I can switch.

I use launchy solely for indexing start menu and nothing else.

slickrun has:

g "whatever" to google search

map "address" for google maps

cal for my google calendar

news, mail, etc...

I use SlickRun to launch browser instances under "runas" - great for Integrated Windows Authentication sites (AKA SharePoint). The other killer feature is being able to launch browser-targeted links (open our intranet sites in IE, everything else in Firefox).

If Launchy can enable that somehow, I'll probably switch.