Increase your productivity by avoiding the Start Menu and using freeware application “Launchy”
Continually referencing the Start Menu in Windows XP throughout your work day will slow down your productivity quite a bit. There are two excellent alternative ways to launch your programs and keep your productivity level high. The first is somewhat obvious and that is to assign shortcut keys to your programs by right-clicking the icon and selecting properties and entering a “Shortcut key.”
The second alternative is a freeware application called Launchy. After you install and start Launchy, Launchy runs unseen in the background. Then, when you want to Launch an application press ALT + SPACEBAR and then start typing the name of your program. Launchy indexes all of your programs and will make suggestions as soon as you begin typing. See the screenshots above and below.
Download link: Launchy via Sourceforge.net
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But how do you shut down?
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To shut down you can still go to the start bar at the bottom, it’s only hidden not gone!
Make Windows XP look like Mac OS X at <> CodeJacked </> on 08 Jan 2007 at 1:58 pm
[…] You still need to hide the windows panel. You can do this by right-clicking on the panel and going to properties and selecting “Auto-hide the taskbar.” Don’t be afraid to hide the start menu. There is a really handy tool that will allow you launch your programs without using the Start menu. This tool is called Launchy and I wrote a post on it a few weeks ago. […]