Keystroke Launch

Launchy is a free cross-platform utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes! Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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... Platforms: Windows

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... Platforms: Windows

X-Launch is a GTK-based skinnable run dialog. It has bash style autocompletion, skin support, and animations to let you know when a slow application is launching. It can function like other run dialogs, but you can also tell it to stay resident in memory and hide itself after it launches an... Platforms: *nix

This application will enhance your desktop displaying images from the famous movie Failure To Launch. Give your desktop a new look! If you are a fan of the Failure To Launch movie, than this is the screensaver for you. Keep these famous characters on your desktop for as long as you want. for... Platforms: Windows, Windows Vista, 7

Launch files, folders, applications and URLs quickly using just a single customizable keystroke or use your mouse to click it from the tray menu. Setup hotkeys that make sense and open web sites and applications faster than ever, e.g. Ctrl+Shift+G for GMail and Ctrl+Shift+N for Notepad. You can... Platforms: Windows, Other

Remora USB Quick Launch is a small toolfor 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 driver easily by using... Platforms: Windows

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... Platforms: Windows

This script associates or launches an action to be performed by the os based on filename extension. For example, assoc.py -e test.c will launch emacs. The optional extra_args allows you to add additional settings to the command associated with the file extension. More complicated actions may... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

NASA Night Launch is a dark theme for Firefox inspired by the night launch of STS-116. This theme is for people who like it dark. If you're running a dark desktop then this is for you. So zip up your flight suit, make sure your harness is secure, and enjoy the ride. Customization: Pimp your... Platforms: *nix

PaperPlane Smart Launch is a free launcher program aka. shortcut manager which enables you to launch your desktop like an iPad. If you are familiar with Mac OS Launchpad, you could say that it's a better Launchpad just for your Windows. It enables you to quickly access your most used apps, open a... Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7

Launcher is an easy-to-use file and application shortcut manager that can launch all kinds of files and programs. Drag-and-drop operations are supported when editing items shown in the Launcher "open and launch" menu in system tray. Create an unlimited amount of user defined sub-folders and item... Platforms: Windows

With Batchrun you can create a batch file using a graphical interface. A batch file lets you run several Windows commands together, in whatever order you choose. For example, you can launch multiple Windows applications with a click. Start Batchrun, add the applications you would like to run... Platforms: Windows

JIT Scheduler is the task scheduler for Windows 95/98/Me/NT 4/2000/XP/2003, it provides the easy way to create and launch tasks in specified day and time. JIT Scheduler supports 4 types of tasks: Application, Document, System Shutdown or just Message (Remind). This means, that you can open... Platforms: Windows

Launch Desktop applications, open files, folders, websites, send e-mails, and do even more much faster, and easier by using key combinations, or quickly accessible, and easily configurable menu. Features: - Launch program files ("exe", "com", "bat") - Open files, folders - Open special... Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server

Winlaunch is a global shortcut program that allows you to launch programs, documents, folders, websites, emails, control applets and commands by pressing any custom-built assigned shortcut key combination ( for example, Ctrl+F1 could open your default web browser). Shortcut keys work anywhere... Platforms: Windows

JavaDesktopEngines aim is to produce a piece of software that is at the same time: Shared virtual machine It allows to launch different java programs inside the same VM. The VM will always be alive, so no more startup overhead and less memory used. It uses our JDSVM(Java Desktop Shared... Platforms: *nix

TabLaunch is a simple and lightweight but cool-looking X application launch bar based on YeahLaunch. It displays a user-specified list of applications as tabs along the top of the screen. The user can specify an x coordinate offset to position the launch bar or right-align it. The launch bar... Platforms: *nix

amarokFS is an Amarok script which allows it to launch in full screen mode. AmarokFS amarokscript launch the application amarok Full Screen. The first time you run the script you must enter the path for the application binary. For example: /usr/local/bin/amarokFS After this the... Platforms: *nix

bbbutton is a dock application that allows you to create single application launch buttons with the image and application launch of your preference. This is a dock application for BlackBox (and not only), that allows you to create single application launch buttons with the image and application... Platforms: *nix