Forget your start menu and desktop icons and use application launcher instead

Key Launch is a tiny application that helps you to launch programs and documents from your keyboard, with just a few keystrokes, by typing abbreviations.

Just type a few letters of what you are looking for and Key Launch finds it - enter e.g. 'calc' to open the 'calculator'.

You can add aliases, e.g. you can define that "w" means "Microsoft Word", and from now on, you can simply hit Ctrl+Space, then 'w' and enter to open MS Word, it's much faster than browsing through your start menu.

Requirements: Windows XP/NT/VISTA. Language: English /Download (1.25Mb) KeyLaunch from the official website.