Vista shortcut for starting programs

September 17th, 2007

Windows Vista has introduced a bunch of usability features, especially for starting programs. The new Start menu lets you just type a few letters of the name of the program you want to run.

Here’s a new one I just learned: You can start programs in the quicklaunch toolbar by pressing Win+#, where # is the position in the quicklaunch bar.

Quicklaunch toolbar

So I can start IE with Win+1, Notepad++ with Win+2, and Winamp with Win+3.

Via John Robbins’ Blog.

Via Jason Haley.

Via secretGeek’s The Next Mike Gunderloy.

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