Microsoft Labs Speed Launch – Quick Launch Application

PaulSpoerry | August 21, 2008

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Microsoft Office Labs releases the first community prototype from Office Labs: Speed Launch. Community prototypes are projects Microsoft employees work on in their spare time. The goal of Speed Launch is to provide lightning quick access to all the documents, files, and websites you use often. It runs on either XP or Vista, but note that it requires .NET Framework 3.0.

Rather than try and index everything on your computer like Launchy or the Vista Search box, this application lets you add exactly what you want in the list, and even lets you assign an item to launch multiple applications, documents or websites at once.

Your mileage on an application like this may vary. There are other applications like StarDock ObjectBar that have similar functionality. I personally see little use for this app when compared to Launch or the Start Menu Search box in Vista. Still, it may be just what some of you are looking for… feel free to give it a whirl.

Speed Launchâ€™s Launcher. To get this you can hit the â€Windows Key + Câ€ or double click the bullâ€™s-eye. The text field has autocomplete so itâ€™s very quick to get to shortcuts even with long names.