I have been an avid launchy user for the past year. Its a brilliant little application Launcher.

For those of you, who dont know what an Application Launcher is "everytime you need to goto Start Menu -> Programs -> Click on the Program Name", try pressing ALT-SPACEBAR , type in the first few characters, Launchy will show to possible matches, press ENTER. That way you can say good bye to "Start Menu".

Additionally, you can index MP3s, Documents, Media Files on your harddisk. So, you dont have to go hunting on your hard-disk, when you need them, Just type few characters in their name, and they popup! Launchy automatically maintains its index and blazing fast. It indexed my 6000 songs in 30 seconds.

You can also do more with Launchy plugins.

1) Search the web

2) Twit

3) Add items to Remember the Milk

4) Create your own custom scripts to launch stuff.

Ever since, I installed Launchy, I have never used the Mouse to launch programs!

Launchy is also available for Linux.

Launchy is the best and fastest application launcher that you will ever find on Windows. Leave your mouse and Shortcuts for a few strokes of the keyboard.

It learns as you use it, remembers your chioices and hence gets even quicker over time.

Simple and one of the most talked about software in LifeHacker, SourceForge etc... it cant get any better being open source and completely free.

It resembles the famous and very useful Quicksilver in Mac and is undoubtedly the best on Windows.