Launchy

Launchy is a free Windows and Linux utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.

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Mac OS X
Windows
Linux

Launchy is a free Windows and Linux 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.

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Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Skinnable Program Launcher File search Indexed search Relative Paths

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The Best 22 Launchy Alternatives

Alfred

Wox

Find And Run Robot

RecentX

Keypirinha

Executor

kupfer

ASuite

Albert

FCorp File/Folder Launcher

FSL Launcher

Freeter

Hain

FCorp My Quick Launch

Pipy

Spotlight

Yal

8start launcher

Conjure

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