Launchy V2.5    Suggested by blaumag - Updated by webfork on 4 Apr 2010 13MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (2560) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (12) - Post comment - Permalink

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 Moroni: I loved this program! A very good tool!

It's great to have all your Start Menu and Favorites at hand with a simple Alt+Space!

Only problem I found is when you have two entries with the same name in your Start Menu, you only get the first with Launchy! And I already reported the authors about this. [2006-05-02 10:20]

 Bryce Dayton: I'm so happy that I can finally use this bad boy on a usb stick. It's the best thing that ever happened to my compy. [2006-09-23 02:23]

 bigstusexy: Please note!
Version 2.0 is a complete rewrite as such your old configs and skins will no longer work!

In regards to the program being a ram hog, it is using about 44Megs of ram in my config right now but I am indexing 18,673 items which I can find backwards and forwards in a snap [2007-12-20 15:00]

 linuxamp: According to many, launcy 2.0 is still memory hungry.
Another alternative, though not portable, is using Google desktop as a program launcher. Details here:
http://lifehacker.com/software/google-desktop/hack-attack-get-more-from-google-desktop-199630.php [2007-12-20 20:48]

 luke: i unpackaged, selected the option to make portable and added the folder to a rar. hopefully it will work for you.

http://lukemh.com/fileshare/Launchy.rar [2008-01-01 05:34]

 Stealth?: Why isn't this program stealth? [2008-02-11 07:51]

 MP: When I load this program from an autorun.inf->.bat file the little button in the corner for options disappears but when I click in the area it opens the window anyway. This doesn't happen when I launch the app directly from the folder, nor even from the command line. [2008-02-16 00:02]

 Andrew Lee: @Stealth: The QT DLLs it use create some registry entries under HKU\S-XXX\Software\Trolltech. [2008-09-11 06:39]

 Fred: I have so many portable apps, so I can't be bothered to create Start Menu shortcuts/groups for them all. I really should since they need categorizing.

Most of the time I know what I'm looking for so Launchy does a great job. I have it set to Win+Space as Alt+Space is a built-in Windows shortcut. Launchy is also quicker than burrowing through heaps of Start menu shortcuts and folders. [2008-12-02 21:00]

 doctorfrog: Find and Run Robot is an excellent and light alternative to Launchy. It won't make it into this index b/c it requires *free* registration and will nag you until you do, but it's light, completely portable, and has a dozen good plugins. To make it portable, extract to any folder and add "PORTABLE=TRUE" to ConfigDir.ini. Run it anywhere; it will search the local Start Menu and Desktop and other directories for your search terms, plus your USB stick. See http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/index.html for more info. [2009-02-20 12:18]

 Mike.S.G.: It looks as if Lupo's UniExtractor (1.6) is having troubles with the latest Launchy executable v2.5.

"Signature detected: Inno Setup Setup Data (5.3.8)
This is not directly supported, but i'll try to unpack it as version 5306
; Version detected: 5308
Unpacking failed. This version is not supported." [2010-04-06 22:18]

 Mike.S.G.: This is how I fixed the problem...

I use Lupo's Universal Extractor - get the latest (v1.6 R8) updated Jan, 23, 2010. One problem, 'InnoUnp' is only @ 0.28, so you will need to get the latest 'innounp.exe' and update the \bin folder. This will do the trick, 'Launchy2.5.exe' can be extracted.

Lupo's Universal Extractor (Universal_Extractor.exe)(1.6 R8)
...http://www.lupopensuite.com/db/universalextractor.htm

Inno Setup Unpacker (innounp029.rar) - (0.29)
...http://sourceforge.net/projects/innounp/files/ [2010-04-07 03:50]

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