Development seems to have stopped, but I've been using it for so long I'm compelled to submit it here for evaluation. Please note that Fast Launcher can also be used as a system tray menu utility; as I don't use such functionality I'll make no further mention of it.

According to a prior discussion here at TPFC (viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3504), it is portable but not stealth -- IconsCache.dat gets automatically generated at user's %APPDATA%\DVAsoft\FastLauncher location; path portability is achieved by manually editing fl.xml and replacing absolute paths with relative ones. The easier way to get it portable is to install, run once, close, copy the program installation folder somewhere, run «start "" "%APPDATA%\DVAsoft\FastLauncher"» (without the angle quotes), copy every file there to the saved folder, and uninstall everything else. The fl.ini should be edited to look like:





Fast Launcher accepts new entries by dragging and dropping and can be set to auto close when you launch an application. And so you don't fret Fast Launcher will always look as unsightly as in the official screenshots, here's a pic from my own (notice the question mark icon for an broken entry):



EDIT: The above files can be placed in Fast Launcher program folder, provided the corresponding path is entered into fl.ini as detailed above. Also, although there's no mention of this anywhere in the site or the help file, fl.xml seems to accept the following internal path variables: