Quick Launch

Quick Launch is a small Windows tool designed with a single goal in mind: to help you access various preset and custom applications from an intuitive and easy-to-configure environment.

It comes in handy if your desktop got two crowded with icons from various utilities and you want to make some room on your screen for focusing solely on your projects. The tool’s aim is to help you store all applications in a virtual environment and launch them with just one click on the corresponding icons.

This is a portable program and it is important to mention that it doesn’t leave any traces in the Windows Registry.

You can copy it on any USB flash drive or other devices, and take it with you whenever you need to launch utilities on the breeze, without having to go through installation steps.

Quick Launch sports a clean interface that allows you to trigger most of the actions with just a few clicks. The utilities are stored within several preset categories, namely Work, Fun, Applications, Office, and Other.

For each category, the program provides you with some predefined utilities (e.g. Total Commander, Firefox, Notepad++, Virtual Box, Microsoft Paint) which can be accessed provided that they are installed on your computer.

On the downside, it doesn’t offer support for configuration settings, so you cannot edit the preset categories, delete and add new ones, as well as change the icons. The only way to make some adjustments is to edit the XML file.

To sum it up, Quick Launch proves to be a simple-to-use tool that comes bundled with limited features for helping you launch programs. Several improvements in the GUI area for triggering configuration settings are welcomed to improve the tool’s overall functionality.