Software Journal

OK, there was no such contest, but I used the 3 launchers: Launchy, Keylink and SlickRun for the about one week each as I mentioned here, and here is my summary.

	Launcher	Score
	SlickRun	95
	Launchy	94
	Keylink	60

Single winner is SlickRun. My only previous issue with SlickRun was that it was showing up in taskbar, and when I would Alt Tab, it would show up in the list of programs. The launcher was getting in the way. That turned out to be just a default setting. Simply click on Options in Setup, and check the box “AutoHide SlickRun” and that goes away.

Launchy is a close second – my only gripe with it was that sometimes it was taking too much CPU, but that may not be a general problem.

As a direct comparison between Launchy and SlickRun – Launchy starts off by building a neat catalog, but SlickRun is easier to use in terms of defining a new alias (magic word). From my perspective, SlickRun is a winner in the longer term as you can build your aliases based on what you use more often.

Keylink is a distant third – I don’t recommend it.