Launchy – Speed up your life

Launchy is a simple little Windows app that lets you start up applications in an auto-complete, command line idiom – rather than searching through menus or scrambling around your desktop. Once installed and started, you simply press Alt and space together and a window pops up over the top of your screen into which you can immediately start typing the name of a program. Launchy then gives you the best match for the program and, once you have the right one, you just press ‘return’ to launch it. Simple and effective, plus beautifully designed.

[Thanks to Just Use It! for the tip]