Freeware: Quick Launch

	Free Launch Bar  License: Freeware
	Free Launch Bar is a Free replacement for the standard Quick Launch bar. All functions presented in Quick Launch are also in Free Launch Bar. However, the Free Launch Bar is fully compatible with Quick Launch because it uses the same folder for shortcuts. But there is one huge difference. Free Launch Bar allows you to combine your shortcuts into groups. This feature looks like popup menus. This vastly improves the management of your shortcuts and save working space on your desktop. By using Free Launch Bar, you speed up the launching of your applications like never before. The main features of Free Launch Bar: * Creating menu on taskbar with unlimited levels * Compatibility with Windows XP * Integration into Windows Shell * Low resources * Compatibility with Quick Launch * Creating separators to group shortcuts inside menus * Different view modes * Hotkeys * Using PNG pictures as icons * Support of Windows Drag&Drop technology. To add shortcuts you can simply drag them into menus * Improved tips. You can include some of HTML tags into button description. * Fast toolbar switching * Absolutely FREE Author: TrueSoft| Date: 05-11-2004 | Size: 522 KB
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	PS Hot Launch VVL  License: Freeware
	PS Hot Launch is meant to quickly run different applications, open documents, go to the right folders and web pages, send mail to a specified address, etc. The above operations are carried out through the menu that can be called by clicking the program icon in the taskbar system tray, and also by pressing user assigned hot keys (support for the <Win> key significantly extends the number of possible combinations). The list of applications, documents, folders can be shown as a tree, that is you can divide everything that you want to run into logical groups that make it easier and quicker to find the tasks that you want now. This grouping will allow you to form a very handy structure of the executable commands. Using the structure, you can very quickly find and run something that you want now. PS Hot Launch is a perfect alternative to the Start menu and the Quick Launch panel. Main features: Quick launch of applications from the menu in the system tray; Quick launch of applications using hot keys; Logical grouping of commands; Using separators to make the menu handier; Quick and handy set-up using drag&drop The program requires Win95/98/ME or WinNT/2000/XP. Author: Sergey Poplavsky| Date: 14-02-2004 | Size: 710 KB
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	4WomenOnly  License: Freeware
	Calendar, which shows female critical days by pink color and days of ovulation by green color. There is a calendar for a month and half-year, with a possibility of looking over. For setting-up it is possible to use Wizard. During working hide in quick launch bar. In the critical period quick launch icon is reflected by pink color. In the ovulation period quick launch icon is reflected by green color. In the last day before critical period quick launch icon is reflected by blue color. According to you opinion the start of the program is made together with Windows. Author: Mutex Developments| Date: 30-03-2005 | Size: 465 KB
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	Remora USB Quick Launch  License: Freeware
	Remora (rĕm´ere) : warmwater fishes of the family Echeneidae, characterized by an oval sucking disk on the top of the head. With this apparatus the remora, or suckerfish, attaches itself to sharks, swordfishes, drums, marlins, and sea turtles. In this way it travels without effort... Remora USB Quick Launch is a small tool for installing onto the root directory of your USB drive. You can store My Favorites To Go and create Shorcuts To Go for files, documents and folders which are opened frequently . You can also use it to find and run a file in your USB drive easily by using the built-in scan function . With Remora USB Quick Launch, access to files on your USB drive is much easier, in fact, almost effortless. Main features (1) Create File Shortcut To Go for executable files, Office documents, graphics, music ... in your USB drive. (2) Create Folder Shortcut To Go for folders in your USB drive. (3) Create My Favorites To Go, or your portable internet bookmarks. Adding a description to bookmark is supported. (4) Click the popup menu in tray icon to launch files in your mobile disk quickly. (5) Support file existence checking and URL checking when updating shortcut to database. (6) Find file and run file without opening Window File Manager. (7) Comprehensive database maintenance with support for removal of invalid shortcuts and bookmarks. Author: Essential Skill Consultants Limited| Date: 30-05-2006 | Size: 2280 KB
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	LaunchIt NOW!  License: Freeware
	LaunchIt NOW! allows you to have a small, desktop-like window with full-size icons to launch your favorite programs, files, folders, documents or URLs. It runs in the system tray and is always just one click away. Also, it can be called via a user-defined hotkey. LaunchIt NOW! is fully configurable and customizable on a per-user basis and it offers full Windows Shell integration. LaunchIt NOW! is a great way to have quick access to your frequently used stuff. Enjoy! Author: GemiScorp| Date: 10-11-2002 | Size: 1189 KB
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	8start Launcher  License: Freeware
	New era of desktop, start menu and quick launch is coming by a free skinable application launcher 8start launcher. It make a whole new way of launching programs and applications on your system which you never seen before. Starting programs from shortcuts on desktop and start menu is an obsolete and cumbersome process. Now it is made precise with categorization and graphic options. All your programs can be easily identified from the groups and the icons displayed. The art panel design and the graphical interface make your desktop much more viewable and useful than all your wallpapers and shortcuts put together. You can maintain a clean desktop and access any program with a single click. Clear, useful groups replace the clutter of icons on your desktop. Even the menu is better than the standard start menu. Even the status of removable drive capacity and free space is displayed for your convenience. I created 8start Launcher because I believe there should be a convenient way to access application than using windows start menu, quick launch and desktop. Windows desktop look messy if too many shortcuts in the desktop, windows start menu become hard to access if too many applications installed in the computer, windows quick launch not suitable to handle too many shortcuts. With the new very special button configuration feature, you can define the look of the individual button e.g. button label, icon size, background, width, height... With the labeling options, you can launch your favorite documents and bookmarks, play the nice songs, link to the folders in intuitive way. Author: 8start.com| Date: 10-09-2006 | Size: 1894 KB
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	AcceleRun Free  License: Freeware
	AcceleRun will run any of hundred installed programs during 2 seconds. Will save your nerves and health, without additional mouse clicks. Forget about long menus and commands, you do not need to remember complex combinations of keys. All that is needed is to know some letters which are part of the name of the program, web site, document or folder. Ergonomic design. Minimum memory usage. Ready to help you after first launch. Save your time for more important tasks! Built-in expression calculator. Windows Start Menu Customization Wizard. Empty shortcuts Wizard. Uninstall selected program feature. Memory optimizer. Audio volume control with mouse wheel. Favorites window. Quick launch bar integration. Easy-to-use design. Author: SVAr software| Date: 01-01-2007 | Size: 1074 KB
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	NetJaxer  License: Freeware
	NetJaxer is a free and easy way to integrate your favorite web 2.0 apps like Gmail, TadaList, Digg, Writely, Kiko, Meebo, financial sites, and other Ajax based web programs right into Windows. Create desktop, tray, and quick launch icons. Easily use these applications with our custom browser. Author: NetJaxer| Date: 23-02-2006 | Size: 1155 KB
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	RLauncher  License: Freeware
	RLauncher is an easy to use application launcher. It is used to quickly launch applications, documents, and URLs with one mouse click and save your time. You can do it via main toolbar, tray menu, floating window, hotkeys and aliases. The software has Load at startup and Auto-hide options that should make your life even more easier. RLauncher is a free software and it does not contain any spyware. Author: fr Software| Date: 29-05-2006 | Size: 1042 KB
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	Zigzag Cleaner  License: Freeware
	An easy-to-use utility that lets you clear the desktop with one mouse move. Just make a quick Z with your mouse. And Zigzag Cleaner will hide applications. All or spare. Of course you may restore open windows in the same way quickly and easily. Additionally, the program collects mouse usage statistics. Only for the curious. Author: UNIPHIZ Lab| Date: 16-12-2002 | Size: 171 KB
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	Hot Chime  License: Freeware
	Hot Chime is a small utility that lets you launch your favorite sites and most frequently used programs by your own 'Hot Words'. You can set a Hot Word 'g' to launch Google and 'xl' to start MS Excel on your PC. It also lets you easily & instantly lookup words in a dictionary, get Whois info for domains, and search the Google Groups. The default Hot Key is - Pause. To access CNN for news, simply press 'pause', then type: cnn, and press 'enter'. Author: Chime Softwares Ltd.| Date: 20-04-2003 | Size: 35 KB
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	CD Match Application  License: Freeware
	Launches any program for inserted CD - just associate program(s) to launch with your CD. You need not anymore for the one program launching from CD's "autorun.inf" file: when your desire changes, - change the program(s) to launch. For foreign CD-s (which are not in the 'CD Match' database) , 'CD Match' can : - collect files by their extensions for the inserted (or presented) CD-s, and offer to launch from collected - just define what (video, archives, applications) to collect. - offer to open program from CD's 'Autorun.inf' file. So, almost all the job concerning 'CD playing' regardless of CD's content can be done by 'CD Match'. It has 3 interface languages - English, Russian and French - the last two are available only for appropriate local settings. Author: Kovalev Serguei| Date: 14-07-2005 | Size: 404 KB
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	JetStart Free  License: Freeware
	Tired of digging into crowded Start Menu? JetStart offers you a quick access to categorized Start Menu shortcuts, recently launched programs and system commands. Just point your mouse to the Start Menu button! You can also place your most used programs and documents into the handy toolbar and quickly run any program by typing few starting letters. Reorder taskbar buttons by drag and drop! Author: Code Sector Inc.| Date: 17-05-2007 | Size: 657 KB
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	Stardust Screen Saver Control 2003  License: Freeware
	Stardust Screen Saver Control 2003 is a free taskbar accessory that lets you launch and configure all your screen savers. Launch the default screen saver with a single click, or easily enable/disable it. Select from a list to launch/configure/disable any installed screen saver. Or, set Windows to randomly pick a screen saver. Author: Stardust Sales| Date: 30-10-2003 | Size: 656 KB
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	Azureus Installer  License: Freeware
	Free Azureus Installer is a free software that allows you launch the setup of the famous software azureus which allows to: Multiple torrent downloads,Upload and download speed limiting, both globally and per torrent, Advanced seeding rules,Adjustable disk cache, Only uses one port for all the torrents, UPnP sets the forward on your router, Can use a proxy, for both tracker and peer communications, Fast resume, Can set a default download dir and move completed files, Can import torrents automatically from a set dir, Highly customizable interface, IRC plugin included for quick help,Embedded tracker, host your own torrents, automate your shares (periodic scanning of a dir)..., Distributed Hash Table: host on it a completely decentralised torrent and/or benefit from it when the tracker is offline. This software is not in some way connected to the software azureus but it is a tool that semplifies the findig and the installation of this one. Author: I've found| Date: 15-03-2007 | Size: 548 KB
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	MSCExec for Windows  License: Freeware
	MSCExec allows you to call OS command or launch an application right from your script. You can set parameters for the call and check results. Author: Miraplacid| Date: 08-01-2003 | Size: 57 KB
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	Easy Hotkeys Manager  License: Freeware
	Easy Hotkeys Manager - powerful hotkey manager, which helps you manage a wide range of system hotkeys  Easy Hotkeys Manager is a powerful and easy-to-use hotkey manager. It provides you with additional means to control applications, windows, and other system components.    For example, you can assign keyboard shortcuts for quick launch of applications, sound management, ejecting and closing the CD-ROM tray etc.    All operations that manage power supply  and logon are made available from keyboard. Moreover, window manipulations are easier as you can configure additional functions for mouse buttons.    A handy interface and wide capabilities of Easy Hotkeys Manager will make your work with computer faster, easier and more effective.    Features:  · Hotkeys for window management (maximize, minimize, minimize to tray, always on top)  · Window management with the help of the right mouse button(additional functions when minimize, maximize and close buttons are pressed)  · Logon and Power management (Log off, Stand by, Hibernate, Restart, Shutdown) with the option of forced application closing  · Quick launch of any applications with the help of hotkeys Author: thePickApp| Date: 13-01-2008 | Size: 439 KB
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	Register Hot Key  License: Freeware
	Define a Key Combination as Hot Key Register Hot Key(s) & Launch Programs / Open File with with Hot Key The Program sits in System Tray Remove Hot Keys whenever not required A Free Windows Utility by RTMenu.com Author: RTMenu.com| Date: 22-08-2007 | Size: 2944 KB
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	Launch It Pro  License: Freeware
	Launch It! Pro is a desktop utility that provides an alternative method of launching applications, easier to use than Windows Start menu, and neater than having large numbers of desktop shortcuts. Shortcuts can be to applications, documents and URLs, and can include parameters, and a description that is displayed when the shortcut is selected. Each shortcut can optionally be associated with a hot key combination. Author: FDP Soft| Date: 05-11-2005 | Size: 887 KB
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	Quick Browser  License: Freeware
	Quick Browser 2.1 is a free/simple/easy/quick web browsers. <a href="http://www.vsisystems.com">www.vsisystems.com</a> - Vsisoftware.com Author: Vic Szamody| Date: 21-07-2003 | Size: 1500 KB
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	QuickStart  License: Freeware
	QuickStart allows you to quickly find items in your Start Menu, Favorites, Recent Files, Desktop and History, that match a typed keyword. In addition, you can specify a custom directory, as well as file extensions to look for. Just type in the keyword and press enter to be presented with a list of items that match your entry - you can then select and launch the program, link or file by selecting it from the list. This program is Freeware (no ads, no nag screens, no limitations). Features: - Launch applications, documents, etc, by simply typing a keyword. - Automatically load keywords from the Start Menu, Favorites, etc - Launch explorer by typing a directory path. - Launch the default browser by typing an url. - Runs in the system tray. - Define your own system hot-key. - Define your own custom search directory for keywords. - User defined ignore list for key words. - Provides useful memory information. - Low physical memory warning. - Many configurable options. - Uses a small memory foot print. Author: Tijn Hoekstra| Date: 14-01-2004 | Size: 731 KB
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	Find and Run Robot  License: Freeware
	Find and Run Robot is a program for keyboard maniacs - it helps you rapidly find programs or documents from within the depths of the start menu (or other directories). One keypress launches the utility - then just start typing the first letters of the application you want to launch. As you type the best matches are shown - just hit the number to launch the associated program. NOTABLE FEATURES: Fully customizable search paths (search your entire hard disk for files as well as apps). Fast incremental searches, with memorized search history helps you find the files you need quickly. Completely customizable heuristic scoring metrics - tune the program to search the way you think. Add your own custom alias groups. Low system overhead, doesn't mess with your registry. Unobtrusive and stays out of your way in the system tray until you need it. Author: DonationCoder| Date: 28-03-2005 | Size: 997 KB
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	Free Launcher  License: Freeware
	With Free Launcher you may easily start your programs by a click or using an alias. You may add as many aliases as you like. Free Launcher is located in the tray and won't interfere your usual activity. The software has "Load at startup" and "Autohide" options that should make your life even more easier. Free Launcher is a free software and it does not contain any bad-ware. Author: Free Launcher group| Date: 30-10-2004 | Size: 498 KB
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	TurboNote  License: Freeware
	TurboNote sticky note software is a handy PIM organizer and instant messaging tool to boost business productivity, saving time and money. This popular downloadable Windows freeware is simple to install, easy to use and highly reliable, making it a powerful, inexpensive way to keep organized. You can "stick" notes to your screen and send them to others on your network. Use them for reminders, messages, to-do lists, Web and email addresses. You can change note colours and sizes, have them ring alarms, print them, lock them and keep your screen uncluttered by hiding them. Notes even stay around when you turn your computer off. TurboNote's Quick Launch feature also lets you open Web addresses, programs and files which appear in notes, simply by double-clicking. Network support suits organisation-wide deployment and TurboNote can be run by other programs or batch files to create new notes and send them to other computers. Sponsored versions are ideal for Web marketing. A full affiliate program, offering lifetime commissions, is available with the shareware version, TurboNote+. Author: Peter Hyde| Date: 23-09-2002 | Size: 542 KB
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	AddaButton  License: Freeware
	Add custom buttons directly to Internet Explorers own toolbar which can be used to launch any program or document on your computer. Easy-to-use interface allows you to define the button text, icon, associated "Tools" menu command text, and even the text to be displayed in I.Es status bar when the mouse cursor is over the menu command. Buttons can be optionally added to I.E.s toolbar for only the current Windows user profile or for all users if your system is configured for more than one Windows user profile. Buttons can also be deleted or their properties edited from within the program at any time after they have been added. New version adds the ability to use any ico files from your hard drive as button icons plus many more new features and improvements. Author: Kyle Dusang| Date: 29-12-2002 | Size: 685 KB
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	AMenu for CDs  License: Freeware
	Make a pop-up start menu on your CDRs. Burn this program onto a Data CD along with the your other files and folders. When the resulting CD is loaded on a computer, it will pop up a menu that directs the user to choose from several options. Prior to burning, you can design the options, button colors. and form colo by simply editing the text file called autorun.inf. You can use AMenu to launch programs, setup files, web sites, text files, MP3 files, Winamp m3u playlists, and more. 8 customizable buttons. Definitely worth a look. Author: Desernet Broadband Media| Date: 02-09-2002 | Size: 219 KB
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	SFVManager  License: Freeware
	Freeware batch checker/manager of SFV filesets, check, create, maintain, copy, move and zip support. Set up one or more path (or launch from Windows Explorer) and SFVManager finds all sfv's, checks them and allows you to perform batch operation on the results. Author: Triceptual Systems Ltd| Date: 23-11-2004 | Size: 1352 KB
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	Launcher  License: Freeware
	Launcher is an easy-to-use personal shortcut manager to launch all kinds of files and programs. Drag-and-drop operations are supported; this means that when Launcher is in "Manage Items" mode, it is possible to configure shortcuts by "dragging" files from e.g. Windows Desktop and then "dropping" them into Launcher. One can create an unlimited amount of user defined sub-folders and item (e.g. program) shortcuts. Launcher always resides in the system tray per default; however, one can turn this off in settings. Launcher also has various GUI options, e.g. customizable program font setup (name and size). Author: Micro-Sys| Date: 18-11-2007 | Size: 989 KB
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	4t Tray Minimizer Free  License: Freeware
	4t Tray Minimizer lets you running applications minimized as System Tray icons, which helps in adjusting free space on your taskbar. To minimize any application to the task bar, simply left click the minimize button as usual or press keyboard shortcut. You can configure 4t Tray Minimizer to automatically hide/restore specific applications by pressing specific keyboard shortcuts. Desktop Enhancements: - Hides system tray icons - Launches Desktop programs from the system tray - 'Minimize to tray' and 'Hide window' buttons on the titlebar of any window - 'Minimize to tray' and 'Hide window' items in the system menu of any window Minimizing to tray: -Minimizes to tray any application. MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express and any other application can be minimized to System tray -Hides any application. Any application can be hidden without displaying its icon in the System tray -One tray icon for multiple instances. This feature allows minimizing multiple instances of an application in the same tray icon -Supports animated icons. For example, if your mail client (MS Outlook) changes the icon on the new message arrival, its tray icon changes accordingly -Shows/Hides icons in the Alt+Tab dialog -Hides and Restores all opening application For your favorite application: -Customized keyboard shortcuts for quick launching and hiding your favorite application -Customized 'How to hide the application' options -Customized options of behavior in the hidden mode -The favorite application can be autohidden as soon as it is executed or as soon as it is deactivated -Option to launch only one instance of the favorite application -Restores and brings up. 4t Tray Minimizer allows bringing up your favorite application by pressing the customized keyboard shortcut -Minimizes and Restores all instances of the favorite application -Customizing tray icon. 4t Tray Minimizer allows you customizing tray icon for your favorite application Author: 4t Niagara Software| Date: 14-11-2003 | Size: 613 KB
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	Quick ShutDown  License: Freeware
	Quick ShutDown - free Windows shutdown utility that allows to shutdown, reboot, logoff, hibernate, standby or lock your Windows session with a mouse click. When Quick ShutDown is running, an accurate miniature icon appears on the taskbar on the end opposite the Start button (next to the clock). Right-click on the icon and you have a choice to shutdown, reboot, standby, hibernate, lock, logoff and eject removable media. You can preset a command so that all you need to do is to left double-click on the its icon in the desktray and that function will be carried out. Also you can choose to click or double-click it with the left mouse button. Quick ShutDown optionally terminates programs that are not responding, making shutdowns both quicker and safer. You can easily set hotkeys for each task (shutdown, reboot, standby, hibernate, lock, logoff and media eject). In addition, Quick ShutDown can eject removable media drives at shutdown preventing you from losing your disks and CDs by leaving them in the drive when you leave. Also Quick ShutDown gives you the possibility to schedule shutdown operation using standard Windows task scheduler. Quick ShutDown works with Windows 95/98/Me/XP/NT/2000. Author: Shatran Software| Date: 18-02-2003 | Size: 508 KB
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