Sometimes finding files from your PC or finding a website URL from your large collection of bookmarks may become time consuming and frustrating task.
You cannot create shortcuts for all your frequently used files on your desktop. Speed Launch from Microsoft Office labs is great tool that can help you to a great extend in this situation.
Speed Launch is a Microsoft Office Labs tool that enables you to work faster and with less frustration by helping you to find documents, file , websites and even applications in just few clicks. It offers quick access to all the documents, folders, files and website you use most.
Speed Launch Features
Speed Launch is a great tool to launch files or websites or any documents quickly. You don’t have to search your desktop for shortcuts, or your favourites or bookmarks for websites. You need to install the Speed Launch and can add shotcuts, manage them , search , find and launch them quickly. Speed Launch works as a repository of shortcuts where you can easily retrieve them using context sensitive searches. A shortcut can be of file, website, folder and any document.
Adding new shortcut to Speed Launch
There are two ways to add a shortcut to Speed Launch. You can either drag and drop a file to the Bulls-eye of Speed Launch. Or you can add use the “Add shortcut” menu of the Speed Launch Bulls-eye. See below.
Launching shortcuts and documents
Launching shortcut is really easy. The launch bar can be launched by selecting the “Launch Shortcut…” menu from the bullseye or by simply pressing “Windows+C” key combination. See below.
In the launch bar you can type the shortcut name. The Speed launch suggests the shortcuts based on the characters you type. See below.
Manage shortcuts in Speed Launch
Click the “Manage shortcuts…” option from the menu. In the new window you can Add new shortcuts or delete the existing one. See below.
Speed Launch from Microsoft Office labs is really useful and can save a lot of time. It reduces the time you spend on searching for files or documents. It not only saves your time but also helps you to avoid the frustration of searching for a file from a 500GB hard disk.
System Requirements
- Windows Vista or Windows XP SP2 with .Net Framework 3.0
Limitations: English only
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Hi, I am a fan of Speed Launch, but suddenly I have lost all my shortcuts. Do you have any ideas as to how I could get them back. I do use Genie Timeline to back up my files. Is there any chance I could recover from there, but where would i look.
Many thanks for any reply.
Robin (Somerset UK)
You can try to restore it from backup. Check for the backup version prior to the corruption date and restore from there.