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by Phillip Pearson.
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Or something like it, anyway. I like the Vista Start Menu search feature, where you hit the Windows key, type a few letters of the name of the app you want, and hit ENTER, and it finds it for you. But Vista has its problems, and I'm still running XP on a separate machine. It would be nice to have something that made it just a little quicker to open useful developer things like:
- anything on the Start Menu (as in Vista).
- the current user's Application Data folder.
- certain favourite files/folders/shortcuts, for current projects.
- commonly used SSH connections.
I could just make a bunch of scripts, and to a certain extent I have done that, but the UI for Vista's Start Menu search has shown me that it's possible to do better than that. Anybody have any good apps for Windows that do this? (E-mail me - comments not working, sorry!)
Dude, I would really give DOMercury a try. Its at www.odierno.com/domercury It finds all that start menu stuff and IE favorits and you can set it to index anything in any folder with the FolderOptions plugin. Plus it gets updated frequently and the author is responsive to feedback.
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