



A quick launch desktop menu that provides fast access to the hierarchical list of favorite programs, documents and folders. To bring it up, right-click on the Desktop, point to Favorite Shortcuts or Quick Launch and then click an item on the menu.
Flexiblesoft Launcher installs easily, uses minimal resources, and can be customized in minutes to make your shortcuts accessible, while keeping your screen clear of icon-litter.
NetVisualize Favorites Organizer organizes URLs visually. It imports your bookmarks or favorites, creates thumbnail images of your sites, and provides text and visual search. It can display a thumbnail directory or save to an HTML thumbnails file.
dLauncher is a simple, easy to use program launcher. A good alternative to the Windows Start Menu. Friendly and intuitive. It provides quick access to your favorite programs, shortcuts, folders, documents and websites.

Folder Pilot
$19.95 - BAxBEx Software
Folder Pilot seamlessly integrates into your Windows environment with two easy-to-use Windows extensions.
Install Folder Pilot today and forget all the hassles when browsing through folders.
Folder Pilot replaces the Address bar in Windows Explorer and enhances its functionality. With just 2 clicks of the mouse, you can immediately browse to your favorite or recently used folders.
The next generation of Windows (codename "Longhorn") will have similar functionality - with Folder Pilot experience the tomorrow's folder navigation today.
Folder Pilot replaces the standard Address bar in Windows Explorer and displays folder structures as clickable paths. You are able to see at a glance "where you are", namely the path of the current folder. From here you can navigate to any folder on the hard drive at lightning speed.
You can access your favorite folders even faster. Folder Pilot also adds a Favorites menu to the folder context menu (in the File menu, in Explorer and on the Desktop). The menu contains shortcuts to your favorite folders. With these shortcuts, you can navigate the folders you frequently use without having to wander through hard drives, tree structures and folders.
The Favorites menu can be expanded at any time and still remain easy to use. Shortcuts can be easily named, moved, grouped or separated optically with lines. Even shortcut icons can be customized.

4t Tray Minimizer Free
$0 - 4t Niagara Software
4t Tray Minimizer lets you running applications minimized as System Tray icons, which helps in adjusting free space on your taskbar. To minimize any application to the task bar, simply left click the minimize button as usual or press keyboard shortcut. You can configure 4t Tray Minimizer to automatically hide/restore specific applications by pressing specific keyboard shortcuts.
Desktop Enhancements:
- Hides system tray icons
- Launches Desktop programs from the system tray
- 'Minimize to tray' and 'Hide window' buttons on the title bar of any window
- 'Minimize to tray' and 'Hide window' items in the system menu of any window
Minimizing to tray:
-Minimizes to tray any application. MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express and any other application can be minimized to System tray
-Hides any application. Any application can be hidden without displaying its icon in the System tray
-One tray icon for multiple instances. This feature allows minimizing multiple instances of an application in the same tray icon
-Supports animated icons. For example, if your mail client (MS Outlook) changes the icon on the new message arrival, its tray icon changes accordingly
-Shows/Hides icons in the Alt+Tab dialog
-Hides and Restores all opening application
For your favorite application:
-Customized keyboard shortcuts for quick launching and hiding your favorite application
-Customized 'How to hide the application' options
-Customized options of behavior in the hidden mode
-The favorite application can be auto hidden as soon as it is executed or as soon as it is deactivated
-Option to launch only one instance of the favorite application
-Restores and brings up. 4t Tray Minimizer allows bringing up your favorite application by pressing the customized keyboard shortcut
-Minimizes and Restores all instances of the favorite application
-Customizing tray icon. 4t Tray Minimizer allows you customizing tray icon for your favorite application

Shortcut's Twister
$9.95 - Flexiblesoft
Shortcut's Twister will quickly help to create many shortcuts of your favourite programs, folders and documents at any place of your computer. It is possible to create shortcuts in three ways: using Wizard, step-by-step, using context menu in Internet Explorer or from a command line (for example, in DOS session, in file managers: Norton Commander, Windows Commander, Dos Navigator and so on). Shortcut's Twister is easy in work and adjustment.

URL Organizer 2
$9.95 - Edward Leigh
Compact, fast, simple bookmark manager to store, organize, annotate, copy and backup large and/or multiple collections of Internet bookmarks/favorites and also shortcuts to programs, documents and folders. Innovative, intuitive and highly-customizable. Three clicks or free-text search to find any URL. Powerful organizing tools. Import/export tools for Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera. Also imports AOL Favorite Places. Support for multiple URL collections makes it ideal for family users and web researchers (who'll also appreciate how easily it handles tens of thousands of URLs). Support for multiple web browsers makes it ideal for web developers. Support for concurrent sharing of URL collections makes it ideal in a networked/corporate environment.

LaunchIt NOW! Plus
$14.95 - GemiScorp
A shortcut launcher and organizer that will be a huge time saver when using your computer. It removes your desktop clutter and speeds up your daily and repetitive tasks. Also, it comes with the useful add-ons: Shutdown NOW! (to quickly Turn Off, Restart, Log Off, etc. your system), Cleanup NOW! (to remove any evidence of your work or Internet activities) and RevealPassword NOW! (to recover passwords behind a row of '*****' asterisks).
Its new features include: Multiple-selection mode to allow selecting multiple shortcuts for easily launching, copying, dragging or deleting them. Tabs can be defined in the left, right, top and bottom sides of the window. Also, they can be easily hidden to make more room for the shortcuts. Added a Quick-Search box for quickly locating a specific shortcut or a group of them. Also, the quick search can be started by typing anywhere on the program window. The shortcuts can be dragged and dropped directly onto any of the defined Tabs, other applications or the Windows Desktop / Explorer. Ability to dock the window to any screen edge (top, right, bottom, left). The user also can control the window animation speed. The window can be manually resized by simply dragging its borders. An autoresize command was added to quickly resize the program window according to the current screen resolution and the amount of shortcuts. All or specific tabs can be assigned icons for better location upon launch, and each tab will remember the settings for the associated view. Features a new list mode for better reading shortcuts with long names, is specially suitable for listing documents shortcuts and favorites URLs, and there is a user-defined path for saving the shortcuts and tabs settings. The application has full support for multiple monitors, virtual screen and Windows XP themes.

QuickIT .NET
$0 - Devolutions inc.
QuickIT .NET is a small application used to simplify the navigation and organize your shortcuts, your folders and your favorites. Create, edit, remove shortcut file or assign an hot keys to get your application started quickly. Filter favorites, folders or process and find anything you want. Execute Google search, Wikipedia search or translate anything with the integrated tools.
1. Small size
2. Easy to install, only one executable
3. Many explorers:
- Personal shortcut view
- Favorite view
- Desktop view
- Administrative tools view
- My documents view
- My picture view
- My music view
- Process view
- Start menu view
- Control panel view
4. Quick shortcut access
5. Hotkey mapping
6. Easy navigation with the keyboard
7. Integrated filtering
8. Integrated search tools:
- Wikipedia Search
- Translate
- Google search
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