And I use WSCC for remembering and launching Sysinternals and NirSoft utilities, except for the ones WSCC blacklists for being naughty. It takes a *little* extra manual work to maintain after running installers/updaters that don’t allow you to specify custom shortcut locations (or that don’t remember them), but not *that* much, once you get the hang of it.

(For example, to find K-Lite Codec Pack’s “Codec Tweak Tool,” I start to type “Tweak,” and up it pops, at the top of the list.) For infrequently used programs whose names (or existence!) I have trouble remembering, I keep my Windows “All Programs” shortcut menus organized by categories. Nowadays, in Windows 7, pinning very frequently used programs to the Taskbar, pinning somewhat less frequently used programs to the Start Menu, and tapping the Windows key and starting to type any part of the name of other programs is generally good enough for me. It was pretty limited and pretty basic, and I don’t even remember whether it continued to work past Windows 98. This made me remember that a long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away), I used a program called WinKey.exe to assign Windows-key shortcuts to programs I frequently used. The app is quite limited at this point in time but that is to be expected as it is only available as development builds currently. Jarvis is a promising open source application for Windows devices. WinLaunch which brought Launchpad to Windows.Hain which is another launcher for Windows.Dexpose2 which also brought Expose to Windows.BetterDesktopTool for Mac Expose and Spaces.Jarvis is not the only Windows program that replicates Mac OS X specific functionality. While typing 'g' or 'wiki' displayed options to open Google Search or Wikipedia in the default browser, I could not add a search term to the query in the version that I used. Jarvis supports searches on Google or Wikipedia according to the product description on the project's website. File Indexing rules are managed in the Settings.Īdd or remove folders using the include and exclude tabs, and select which file extensions you want indexed by Jarvis.

doc displays all files that match the extension. Jarvis indexes specific file extensions in the user directories Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures automatically.Ī search for. Jarvis remembers the state which is useful as the interface is hidden automatically when you click elsewhere or activate something else on the screen. You can use the mouse or keyboard to launch any of the listed applications from the interface.

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