Thursday, February 5, 2009

Neat utility for Windows XP

I have been using Vista on a couple of my PC's for about a year now. Then when I happened to be reading an article in a magazine talking about the search function in the start menu, I thought.. What search function?!? I don't remember seeing it! Well.. It's there! And SO handy! It's much quicker to type "Word" in the search prompt than navigating through the start menu to find it buried somewhere in Start - All Programs - Microsoft Office - Word.. Especially if your Start menu is as full as mine!!
So once I found that, I started to get annoyed about the lack of such a function for XP. I tried a Vista Start Menu extension for XP for a while, which had that functionality, but it caused lockups and crashes.
Then I found "Launchy". It's a free utility that pops up when you hit Alt-Space and allows you to type a search string to find any program or item in your start menu (or anywhere else if you extend the paths in the options menu!). It's certainly made my search for programs MUCH quicker!

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