It took me about 2 days to get used to it, and now i can't live without it. Launchy is here to make a common approach to launching external. There are application concepts (browser, email client, etc) that are common across all platforms, and they may be launched differently on each platform. When i installed it i was forgetting that i have it and kept going the long way through the start menu. Launchy is helper class for launching cross-platform applications in a fire and forget manner. There are a LOT of alternatives-even trying to eliminate some that have very little web presence, I counted 14. It is learning how you use it, and every time it will give better predictions. Lately, Launchy is now crashing multiple times a day on two different Win10 machines that are set up differently (work vs home), so I just started looking at what's new in this space a few days ago. I want to do some photo editing i type just 'P' and there is Photoshop. Most of the time it will find what you want with only two letters typed, like if i want to watch Django i just type 'Dj' and there it is.

I basicly indexes the files you tell it to index (from the catalogue).įor example i have set to index my entire start menu, media library (music, movies, tv shows.), games and other. The Slant team built an AI & it’s awesome Find the best product instantly. Launchy is a small free utility that can both be installed or be run as a portable one. Launchy is a cross platform app launcher that also launches documents, folders and web browser bookmarks.