Comments on: Productivity Tip#1 for Geeks – Launch software using keyboard on Windows

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:53:43 +0000

AWESOME!!!!

This is the “out-of-the-box-slickrun” !
(which I used for years… http://www.bayden.com/Slickrun/ )

Thanks for this great tip!
Simon

By: SR

SR — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:45:18 +0000

Hey, I was following the same tip already and interesting piece is that I have couple of shortcuts with same name.

By: Parimal

Parimal — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:08:56 +0000

Thanks a lot for this. Keep sharing the tips.

Cheers’
Parimal

By: tdowg1

tdowg1 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:21:44 +0000

Ramesh:
Wow, what a coincidence!! I got so sick and tired of this in windows that I did this exact same thing about 6-9 months ago… except i named my c:\shortcuts folder c:\bin instead.

Awesome write up!! Kudos!

I use this ‘hack’ or whatever you wanna call it ALL THE TIME.

instead of touching my mouse, whenever i want to open up firefox, i just type ff and BLAD-DOW! Whenever I want to open my muzik source dir, i just type m and BLAD… …. well, you get the point.

@JuneBUG:
I had not given it much thought, but I will after your suggestion. One limitation I could forsee, though, is that you can’t make something like ‘ff’ open firefox.. it sounds like it would have to be something like ALT+ff perhaps? or something I would easily forget compared to the letter ‘m’ for muzik. IDK, I will give it a looksee tho, thanks for suggesting.

By: Krish

Krish — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:14:36 +0000

You might want to try out Launchy, it can really be helpful when accessing programs via the keyboard..

By: wf

wf — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:00:16 +0000

Being able to run those apps from the command prompt is very useful for me. Thanks a lot.

By: JuneBUG

JuneBUG — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:55:54 +0000

Have you ever thought about using shortcut keys? When you right click on a shortcut > properties in the middle it says “shortcut keys” you can click in here and hit F9, ALT + F9 , or whatever key combination you want.
Or is it just me?

By: Shamelle @ TheEnhanceLife.com

Shamelle @ TheEnhanceLife.com — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:17:59 +0000

The same thing can be achieved using SlickRun. Its free and you can easily configure shortcuts.

http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/

By: abhishek

abhishek — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:21:01 +0000

Gud tips buddy…added your blog in my google reader…will keep visiting more often.

By: Christina

Christina — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:09:25 +0000

Thanks for the great tips! Very helpful!