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Hi Foxes!

I was looking for some software like dmenu under linux, but for windows. Here is my google result :

reviews

• a quick presentation of 10 app launcher tools for windows
• a comparison from wikipedia
• comparison between keybreeze and FARR : usage memory

URLs

• Find And Run Robot (FARR)
• toolbox
• keybreeze seems to be light and efficient. Fully open source.
• MCL and a comment
• executor and a comment about it
• appetizer

Too heavy ones

• colibri
• slickrun
• blaze seems to be very heavy. Plis this link point out an interesting point of view about non using such tool on windows (look at the emerge desktop comment). Open source.
• Enso is free but using a lot of memory
• docs solutions

interesting alternative on Windows

You can use a specific pop up menu with the right clikc mouse, like on emerge desktope or bblean.

• popsel

To link macro with keystrokes

autohotkey is open source, works well with keybreeze according to comparison between keybreeze and FARR : usage memory (same link that earlier, I know).

To conclude, I will not install such software, because there are using to much memory. I would like to install Find And Run Robot (FARR), but it is not open source. So, you can pass your way about such tools if you want to save some memory usage, or wait for something like dmenu

Labels: app, application, bblean, blaze, colibri, dmenu, emerge desktop, farr, find and run robot, keybreeze, keystroke, launcher, launchy, popsel