Launchy – Keyboard Launcher
Figure 1
Launchy is a really cool program that not only saves you valuable time, effort, and screen real estate, it also looks really cool. it’s design is simply to launch a specified program simply by typing the name of it.
With Launchy, to launch an app, you press the desired keystroke (default -> ALT-SPACE) to launch the main Launchy menu (Figure 1) and simply start typing what you are looking for. as you can see from the image, by just typing the letters “ama” the suggestion to run the Amarok application has come up. Then when you press the enter key the selected application loads and the Launchy app goes back into idle mode. When it is in idle mode it just hangs out in the background waiting to be launched again. Out of sight, and saving all that valuable screen real estate that the Windows Start menu takes up!
So now you can hide that Windows bar, with confidence that you don’t have to rely on it so heavily!
Launchy is available from: http://www.launchy.net/