LaunchQ

Although the desktop space offers the chance to have items launched with a simple double-click operation, it can easily become a crowded space in which it takes more time to identify items of interest. Luckily, you can rely on specialized applications like LaunchQ to set up shortcuts to launch just about anything from a cool menu.

Since there’s no setup involved to make it work, LaunchQ can also be used as a portable application launcher for programs on a USB flash drive on which you can also deploy the program itself. It leaves no traces on the target computer, because registry entries don’t need to be modified to ensure functionality.

It minimizes to the tray area right from the start, and it’s the place where it sits during runtime. Interacting with the icon, unfortunately, doesn’t bring up the launcher menu, but the configuration window instead. Don’t worry though, the launcher menu is easily brought up through a hotkey command you can define in the configuration menu.

Apart from a comfortable hotkey command to bring up the launcher menu, you can also set the size of the window, background and text color, as well as the transparency level by adjusting a slider. Changes are saved on the spot, and there’s the possibility to have the app launched with Windows from the corresponding tray icon menu.

Hitting the assigned hotkey bring up the launch menu, with various default programs and websites already configured to serve as examples. The application is capable of launching nearly any kind of item, and configuring one is easily done through the launch menu.

All things considered, we can state that LaunchQ is a practical application overall, allowing you to keep the desktop a clean space. It’s easy to customize, letting you assign a custom hotkey command for your programs, while it supports the launch of nearly any kind of file, program, or even web page through your default web browser.