Launchy

Launchy is a free utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, your desktop icons, and your file manager. Launchy indexes and launches your applications, documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

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GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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johnq Posted 2025-05-08

Excellent application. I use it for over 10 years. It has saved me a great amount of time.
paulindr Posted 2024-03-03

Excellent way to clear the desktop and simplify opening any app or document.
tsvigo Posted 2023-01-31

The program reports that alt + space is busy. If you do not pay attention to this message, the program is perfectly called by this combination. For some reason, two input fields appear.
wita74 Posted 2021-12-08

Простой без русского языка. Некоторые плагины на сайте не работают.(скачать нельзя). Msconfig не ищет не работает
a-verbitsky Posted 2020-03-04

Awesome! And it works properly when running via ssh -X

Additional Project Details

Awards

Winner: Best New Project 2007

Operating Systems

FreeBSD, Linux, Mac, Windows

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, End Users/Desktop

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Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Launchers

Registered

2005-03-03

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