Comments on: Work Faster in Windows With Launchy and a few Python Scripts

By: LReebz

LReebz — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:38:41 +0000

Thanks!! Extremely useful! And this idea can be extended to any number of other useful tasks which Python scripts can accomplish.

Note: it may be necessary to add "*.pyw" to Launchy's list of File Types for the Utilities folder in order to run these scripts.

By: Arun bhai

Arun bhai — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:21:13 +0000

@pf:

You can type the first few letters of the filename of the python script to bring the Excel sheet to front. for eg: to open "My Expenses.pyw" just type "My Exp" or shorter.

The more often you use, the lesser number of characters you will have to type because Launchy learns as you use it.

By: pf

pf — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:28:41 +0000

What do you type in Launchy to get to your Excel window after you create the Python script?

By: Vishnu

Vishnu — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:47:39 +0000

Yek.! I think I should try tht.. Was using the winR till now.!

Pss.. I'm lazy writing scripts.!

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Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:10:36 +0000

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By: r

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:46:14 +0000

better to just use a real os, methinks

but for those unfortunate souls who have no choice/haven't quite come around, this isn't bad

By: Arun bhai

Arun bhai — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:43:16 +0000

@Steve: I'm a great fan of Win R combination. Since it works out-of-the-box on any windows box, I tend to use it all the time. Unfortunately, some of my commonly used URLs are too cryptic to type, esp the ones on my intranet. Hence the need to use such automation tools.

@David: I agree IETab is a good solution for the first scenario. But somehow, I always end up too lazy to install it :)

By: David

David — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:49:22 +0000

Firefox has a plugin (IETab) that can open specific pages/domains in IE embedded in tab. Very elegant, and even easier than the above :-)

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:35:48 +0000

I use launchy AutoHotKey. Launchy to as a program launcher..and Autohotkey for global shortkeys and macros for various tasks. You might find it much easier and more suitable rather than dropping to python.

Much of the functionality is built-in,for which you would need extensive coding in python.

By: Togakangaroo

Togakangaroo — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:11:54 +0000

Also great for using when you have an lmhosts file set up. For example, I have my test IP address mapped to the word test, and productions servers to prod1, prod2, ...

Bringing them up is a matter of typing int test int prod1 ... (int = internet explorer)

And in general great for passing parameters too sqlplus username:password@host ...