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I've used plenty of hotkey applications, but none is as visually appealing or easy to configure as QLiner.
Download and install QLiner, launch it, and then press win + z to open the main window (above). New hotkeys can be added by simply dragging a shortcut from your desktop onto a key - it even works with URLs from your browser.
More than just a launcher, QLiner first tries to match your hotkey with a running application. If it finds a match, it'll bring that window to the front instead of spawning a new process. You can add runtime arguments to your hotkeys as well: for example, /auto on CCleaner to add a one-key system cleanup.
Download and install QLiner, launch it, and then press win + z to open the main window (above). New hotkeys can be added by simply dragging a shortcut from your desktop onto a key - it even works with URLs from your browser.
More than just a launcher, QLiner first tries to match your hotkey with a running application. If it finds a match, it'll bring that window to the front instead of spawning a new process. You can add runtime arguments to your hotkeys as well: for example, /auto on CCleaner to add a one-key system cleanup.
QLiner also has built-in layouts that are tailored for Sony, IBM, Toshiba, and Dell laptop keyboards. Dvorak keyboards are supported, and international users will be thrilled by the massive number of languages available.
Its 45mb memory footprint is a tad on the bulky side, but it's easy to overlook because of QLiner's ease-of-use and flexibility. QLiner is freeware, Windows only.
[ via Cybernet ]
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Subscribe to commentsRarstAug 14th 2008 4:01PM
Yep, great launcher that solves eternal "remembering hotkeys" problem. But memory footprint and speed are ugly. :( I wish they remade it but development is stalled, last release was back in 2006.
BillAug 14th 2008 5:26PM
45 Mb is "a tad bulky"? Microsoft F-ing Outlook only takes up 15 Mb on my system. Microsoft!
cub3Aug 14th 2008 8:47PM
It works very nice. but it just takes too much memory.
Lee MathewsAug 14th 2008 8:47PM
For me, the ram is excusable...most launchers are bad as far as that goes, and with 2GB and about 80% free, I don't miss it.
jfjbAug 15th 2008 10:56PM
my Qliner -- hotkeys 2.0.1.-- load is 14MB on Win XP SP3.
It goes up between 10 to 27MB when calling its screen.
Process Lasso strips it to 312KB and then Qliner grows back to 2.2MB.
It does not fluctuate that horribly -- from 4.2 to 10MB -- during "blind operation", meaning when using only the hotkey keystrokes.
This is far from your 45MB, Lee.
To each his own, I suppose, but this program has been around for a very long while, according to modern lifespan of software. Its memory hunger comes from using .NET, not assembly registers and algorithms. That's the price to pay to so-called new IDE, GUI, bells and whistles of the demagogic windows graphic interface -- remember Bob?
A knee way. ^O gives me ThunderBird 'cause I don't use ^O for Outlook.
Surf's up, dude.