QuickLaunch

A while ago I was chatting with a friend on the Internet and he told me about a program on his Mac that allowed him to launch applications just by pressing a key combination, typing in the first few letters of the name and pressing enter. I thought: "What a cool idea!" Since I was working on AppExec at that time, I figured that I already had the application-launching base and that the idea would be simple to extend to a small utility such as the one he described. Amazingly, it was nearly as easy as I had expected. I use QuickLaunch every day and it saves me a lot of time. It's very nice to be able to press CTRL-ALT-F12, type "PROX" and press enter to quickly launch my proxy software when my parents need to use the Internet but I'm busy typing a message to post on a forum. So I decided to put it up here in the hope that it saves other people as much time and effort as it has saved me.

Current EXE Version #: 1.2.1

Target Platforms: Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP (has been tested only under Win95/98)

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• Allows you to launch applications nearly instantly
• A snap to set up if you have previously set up AppExec
• Runs in the very background (no task bar entry OR tray icon)
• Tiny executable (66 KB)

The download is available in two ways: as a ZIP and as a self-extracting EXE. If you don't know how to unzip and move files, just download the EXE (the first link) to your computer and double-click on it. Click "Unzip" in the window that opens and QuickLaunch will automatically be installed in C:\AppExec (since it is an AppExec companion product, it needs to be in the same directory).

• quicklaunch.exe  (51 KB)
• quicklaunch.zip  (26 KB)

Last modified: 01/05/04
Copyright (c) 2004 Michael Lam