While you can launch some Windows applications from the Run box (accessible from the Start Menu or by hitting Win+R), there's a good reason keyboard application launchers like Launchy, Slickrun, and Find and Run Robot are so popular. Many programs cannot be launched from the Windows Run box, and even those that can often have odd and hard to remember shortcut names.

But Short Run makes it a bit easier to throw out Launchy. Short Run is a free utility that will display every program that can be launched from the Windows Run dialog. You can add items by clicking Ctrl+A, or edit existing shortcut names and other properties by hitting Ctrl+E. Want to delete an entry? Just highlight it and hit the delete key.

Short Run will not auto-populate the Run box with every application in your Program Files directory or Windows Start Menu the way some other keyboard application launchers do. But if you just have a few applications that you want to launch quickly every day, and don't feel like installing a new program just to do it, Short Run can help you edit your Run settings.

[via gHacks]