Window’s+Version+of+Mac’s+Quicksilver

Window’s Version of Mac’s Quicksilver

Apple Mac has a facility known as Quicksilver which all the users praise.

Well some very nice people have written a program which emulates Quicksilver in Windows ( Sadly at the moment only in XP )

What does this program do?

When you want to launch a program or a file you click Start and scroll through all the listed ones and also move to All Programs and do the same, lengthy and time consuming not to mention boring.

If you download this Program ( Which is FREE ), your world will suddenly change for the better.

It is called :- **Launchy**

Find it here [] or here :- []

How does it work what does it do?

One of the nice features is that the icon/window is not on display. Why is that good ? Well haven’t you got to much on display at the moment?

All that you do is hold down **//Alt//** and press the **//Space Bar,//** and up pops the window. In the window type the program/file you want to load, and after a while Launchy does not wait for you to finish typing it remembers the item and displays it for you and if you wait seconds it will display other items that are similar. To close press **//Esc.//** The bad point is that when first loaded it only registers item in the Start Menu.

However, it is so easy to educate, just right-click in the window and it displays options one of which is Directory. Select that and you can add files, docs, etc. which obviously increases it’s index.

Once you get used to using this facility you will wonder how you managed without it and what a bore the previous method was.


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