Pretty Run v8.2.0.6
lwc on 7 Jul 2023 Change history
- 7MB (uncompressed)
- Released on 14 Jan 2015
- Suggested by lautrepay
Pretty Run is a powerful keystroke-based program launcher and search tool. It searches the start menu, desktop or any other folder for the shortcuts or files that meet your query. More than that, Pretty Run allows searching Internet Explorer favorites, Firefox and Chrome bookmarks, Control Panel items, Printers, mp3 files (by tags), jpg files (by exif data), databases, clipboard and on the internet (more search engines can be added to those already included).
Program also includes screen capture tool, Magic Words, a note manager, etc.
Note: To help compensate for drive letter changes that happens with removable drives, use the %PrettyRunDrive% environment variable.
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| Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | Partial |
| Path portability: | Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
| License: | Freeware |
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| Similar/alternative apps: | Executor Launchy |
| What's new? |
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3 comments on Pretty Run
Midas
2014-06-02 11:13
Pretty Run changelog hasn't been updated since v6.1.0.17 (http://www.pretty-software.com/prettyrunhistory.txt)...
v7.0.0.4
oblivion
2014-03-12 11:45
Interesting, effective, but slow.
An option to limit folder recursion might help (you can say %PrettyRunDrive%\portableapps -- for instance -- but the scan subfolders option is going to make PrettyRun go to a lot of unhelpful places, whereas if you could restrict it to just one subfolder down, it might be faster.
The MP3 tag search is also quite slow.
It's not the most intuitive to set up, either.
FindAndRunRobot (from www.donationcoder.com) has a similar philosophy to this but is much, much faster (despite also taking a similarly non-indexed approach) and has a lot more functionality, too.
v6.8.0.141
Avoid-ware.
Installs adware and spyware in background.
v7.0.0.6