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

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 ...

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:54:18 +0000

iexplore.exe isn’t on the path, but you can still use it with the Run prompt. Hit Win R, type “iexplore google.com” and hit enter, it launches IE with the specified website. Works great.

I tried Launchy but I find it didn’t buy me much. I’ve always used a combination of the windows command prompt (it’s not useless!) and Win R and rarely use the mouse (at least for launching a program).

By: Lorenzo Bolognini

Lorenzo Bolognini — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:35:52 +0000

I don't think i click as much as the average Win user does.

I use ALTAP Salamander (it's got a speed dial to configure your most used paths) as a file browser and usually hit Microsoft-M to reach the desktop and from there type the name of the app i want to launch and hit Enter.

If i want to launch Firefox i Microsoft-M, type "moz" and click Enter.

You need to sort your own icon names so that they don't clash with each other.

By: Arun bhai

Arun bhai — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:31:47 +0000

@Siddharta: Atleast for me, iexplore.exe is not in the path of a batch script running in my system. I might have to change the PATH variable for that.

The advantage of this method is it is independent of the path where the user installed the program