Launchy

Launchy is a great little program that can make your digital life much more pleasant. It makes it so easy to find and run the programs you need. It is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, your desktop  icons, and your file manager. Launchy indexes and launches your applications, documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!    Once Launchyhas been started, it hides in the background. You bring it forward by holding the alt key and tapping the space key. Usage of Launchy is very simple. If you want to start program, document, folder or any type file. You type in a few keys of the program you are searching for and hit enter once it has been found. You can also make Launchy dissappear again by hitting escape or alt+space. It has ability to change skins too. So, you can make it match any desktop or theme. For more about Launchy, downloads, skins and plugins you can go here.