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  Saturday, July 01, 2006


QuickNuke Beta 1

In the thick of things, I have about 4 to 8 different applications running on both my monitors and quickly opening various folders and launching applications or command lines is a pain. Using Start | Run has a peculiar problem - you can't enter too many things - the history is limited. And I hate running Start | Run everytime, its too inefficient.

So, today, while working, I quickly cobbled together a quick solution  QuickNuke. I linked to one of the MM keys on the keyboard. It sits in the systray, and does not load automatically on startup. Hit the launch key and you get this window. It's explorer powered. Drag any shortcut (or an item while holding ALT) into this window and it will make a shortcut!

Double-click the shotcut, and you're done. Hit escape to hide the window.

This is very crude at the moment, but I will whip it up into shape soon.

This application is released under the IDGAC (I-dont-give-a-crap) license, so feel free to download it from http://shrinkster.com/gbk. Suggestions and feedback are welcome.









7/2/2006 10:30:40 AM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
SlickRun is the answer you are looking for.

http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/

Pure Magic.
Eric Williams
7/2/2006 8:08:30 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
Just tried SlickRun. Nice little app, but I'm through with typing. After I had to either type, autocomplete, or go via Start Menu > My Docs to:
C:\documents and settings\dax\my documents\visual studio 2005\projects\NukeBall\SR-1\NukeBall.sln or whatever, I started making shortcuts on the desktop (I hate having shortcuts on the quicklaunch bar - I have only 3 - IE, photopaint, and outlook) but accessing the desktop needs having to minimize half a dozen windows. That's where QuickNuke comes from.

This is still a stop-gap solution. The new Windows Vista sidebar and start menu, might give me more options.

Working some more on QuickNuke today. Will post a new build soon.
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