Tag: KEYBOARD-APPLICATION-LAUNCHER

There are dozens of keyboard application launchers for Windows. Most let you launch a program by pulling up a text input screen and typing the first few letters of the application name, whether it's Firefox, Office, or the system control panel. It's often a lot faster than locating the correct shortcut with a mouse and the Windows Start Menu. ControlPad also lets you launch applications using ...

While you can launch some Windows applications from the Run box (accessible from the Start Menu or by hitting Win+R), there's a good reason keyboard application launchers like Launchy, Slickrun, and Find and Run Robot are so popular. Many programs cannot be launched from the Windows Run box, and even those that can often have odd and hard to remember shortcut names. But Short Run makes it a ...