Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Launch a list of programs from one shortcut with Utility Launcher
by Brad Linder Jan 22nd 2009 at 4:00PM
Here's how it works. You download and unzip the application to any folder. Then click the menu button and start adding utilities to the list. Once you save the list, any time you click the Utility Launcher application you'll see the same list. Just click run to launch the first program in your list. Click run again and the second program will load. And so on. If you create a shortcut to the Utility Launcher.exe file and save it on your desktop or in your quick start menu, you can access your list anytime you need it with just one click.
When creating your list, you'll want to take care to put the programs in the order you want them to launch in. Rearranging the list is pretty tricky. You can delete items or delete the entire list, but you can't move an application from spot 3 to spot 1.
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Wolfsvein said 9:03AM on 1-23-2009
Why would you use a program like this in Windows when there is already the feature called startup?!
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Buzzly said 9:25AM on 1-23-2009
Because Windows tries to run all the programs in startup at the one time which usually consumes alot of memory etc
Also, this would be useful if you have specific groups of apps which you would often use at the same time
Personally, i'd rather write a quick and easy batch file to do something like this!