System Utilities > Launchers & Task Managers

ObjectDock is a free program that allows you to have a nice animated launchbar/taskbar on your screen that reacts to your mouse when you mouse over it. Organize your short-cuts and running tasks onto this customizable dock. Ease your workload. Delegate repetitive tasks to Workspace Macro. Keyboard macro & mouse macro. SMART Macro Technology ensures high reliability. Simple, intuitive, user-friendly. Just record & replay. Macro recorder & Macro program for Windows. Magic Utilities is a cute program designed to make your computer clean and more stable. True Launch Bar is an ultimate experience of a manageable file system. It gets the best of MS Windows and adds comfort, polish and slick looks. Its unique system of switching toolbars and expandable menus gives instant access to files and applets. Keyboard Launchpad allows you to assign hot keys to almost any kind of action one might perform on their system. Shortcuts can be made to launch programs, visit Web sites, paste saved clipboards, control MP3 players, and more. A must have! Free Launch Bar is compatible with Quick Launch and allows you to combine your shortcuts into popup menus with unlimited levels. Autorun Maestro is highly configurable CD Autorun menu software. With a fully graphical interface including tooltips and wizards, the menu's appearance and shape can be completely user configured quickly. DreamBirthday is a small but powerful reminder application that sits quietly in your system tray. It will alert you of events on the day they occur, and can notify you at regular intervals of any up and coming important dates. It is 100% free. CDMenuPro is an easy-to-use CD Menu Creator for making Autorun CD Menu applications. The program comes complete with a large number of ready-to-use templates and project assistants, which make getting fast professional results child's play. You can work faster and more efficiently by using your keyboard instead of your mouse. HotKeyz is a keyboard utility that will boost your productivity and it is really fun to use! TopDesk radically reduces the time you spend switching between tasks by giving you the ability to quickly find the window you want from a thumbnail view. TrayIcon Standard lets you easily add, edit, delete, and re-order your application icons in the system tray. Other features include: security, foreign language support, Windows Explorer context menu support, sound, and much more. SoundTimer is simple and flexible short-term task scheduling utility. It can perform "open", "play", "execute", "print", "queue", or other actions on documents or programs, scheduled in seconds, minutes, hours, or days. Automate repetitive tasks! MouseLaunch is a quickest program launcher that is activated by one mouse gesture. MouseLaunch uses a built-in unique technology of detecting both mouse button pressing and it enables the complete new user interface of using mouse. Helps to find quickly and start a program or a document by part of their names; makes user's work under the account with limited rights more comfortable. "Desktop Assistant" is compatible with other utilities of quick program start. FireDaemon lets you install and run any 32-bit or 64-bit application or script as a Windows service. Among the key features is easy configuration via GUI or XML, service monitoring, low memory footprint, fault tolerance and high availability. Tray Tools allows you to place up to 24 program icons in the Taskbar Tray. Program icons that you place there can be launched by simply clicking your mouse on them. To add new programs or modify existing items click your mouse on the red toolbox. EasySleep is a simple and easy to use timer software that auto shuts down your computer at a time period you choose. You may fall asleep easily while listening to your favorite music! Clear up cluttered desktops by organising them into discrete cabinets that slide in and out from the sides of your screen. One click access to all your favourite files, folders, shortcuts and applications. Fully skinnably and simple to use! Small, freeware, full-featured scheduler, that can launch applications and open documents at specified time or with specified frequency. Can be started as a system service or as a regular standalone application. This is a UNIX Cron ported to Windows. LaunchOnFly is a Start Menu alternative and hotkey manager. It lets you launch applications, open files, folders, Web sites, and send e-mails faster and easier using quickly accessible and easily configurable menu. Highly customizable Windows "appbar" on which various components can be placed. Comes with many such components out of the box and users can download or create their using the scripting and plugin systems. Supports skins as well. Montage saves and restores the state of applications running on your desktop, so you can reconstruct a complex, multi-windowed view with a click of the mouse. It helps you save time and conserve screen space, while integrating your favorite programs. Run most executable as a service: 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit and batch files, Java. Run custom applications as a service developed using: Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, Delphi, etc. Run and schedule your application without the need of a user session. FastOpen XP Gold has many features to help you manage a menu of files, folders and web address, and can display an unlimited number of menu items and menus. The menu is available from an icon in the tray bar area or from button next to the Start menu Lets you navigate in drives and through folders using Windows issuing MSDOS commands on a slave DOS console. Last 20 commands are memorized, can store 10 long command lines on 10 buttons to be launched with a click instead of typing again ActiveStartup Deluxe is created for advanced control over Windows startup. With this tool you can view, edit, inspect all programs, that are loading at system startup including services for WindowsNT based operational systems. XStart is an easy to use application 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. RebootEx is a system utility for Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems that allows to automatically shutdown, shutdown at a specific time, power off, reboot and/or relogon to your computer. Create professional royalty-free autorun (auto-play) CD-ROM menu projects. Project files may also be combined into one file for added security and convenience. Create a standardized look for all company CDs with an easy-to-use interface. As more and more files, documents and folders in your USB disk, still access them through file mananger? If you felt inconvient, please use Remora USB Quick Launch to create shortcuts To Go and control them effortless. RunIt! stays in your system tray in the form of an icon and with a single keypress you can either run any program on your computer according to keywords you have selected or perform websearches and check mail faster and easily than before. Advanced process viewer with security engine able to analyze and find potentially dangerous contents within running tasks. Each suspicios feature found will be presented to user in a an easy to understand way, with suggestions on how to handle it Launch Pivot is a smart, configurable and powerful tool for exploring and launching programs on your computer. It can also be used as a Media Player or an Image Viewer by placing the mouse cursor over a multimedia or an image file icon. Control Runner is a program launcher and manager for Windows (95/98/Me/2000/XP) that can substantially increase your productivity. Control Runner is built on the popular MomShell program manager, first released in 1995. iKNOW PROCESS SCANNER is a free effective tool for getting information on running processes that you can encounter in Windows. With it's intuitive interface, user can get the information about almost any process with just a couple mouse clicks. This handy docking app lets you keep all your important programs, web sites and email addresses just a click away! Stores any shortcut or favorite in an organized manner. Imports existing browser bookmarks as well as access to your special folders. This is a quick program launcher with features: launching programs, opening documents or foders, quick access icons, launching groups of programs/docs, plug-ins. Energy Spy is a small program that lets you schedule a shutdown, reboot, logoff, standby, and hibernation for the local computer to be executed at a specified time. It also supports command line options that allow power-off to be used in batch script TrayIcon Pro lets you quickly run your favorite applications and folders directly from the system tray and add icons for these applications and folders to the tray itself, or into menus that sit behind icons in the tray. Manage your Windows startup and make your computer faster with this amazing tool. NitroBOOT is simple and intuitive, yet surprisingly powerful. You can disable programs from starting with Windows, delay their start, or confirm their start. Easy! TrayIcon Explorer allows you to quickly access any folder or disk drive on your system or network using the system tray and adds an icon to the system tray which when clicked brings up a menu containing shortcuts to the directories you use most often Find hidden programs on your computer. Identify them and kill them with Program Sleuth. 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. Launcher is an easy-to-use personal shortcut manager to launch all kinds of files and programs. Drag-and-drop operations are supported; this means that when Launcher is in "Manage Items" mode, one can configure shortcuts by "dragging" files. Quickstart-ToolBar for the Windows Desktop. TrayIcon Menu allows you to launch all your favorite programs from a vertical menu located in the system tray. It provides for network support. The network administrator can control the contents of this menu over his entire network. Launch applications, documents, and URLs, and over 80 other actions to hot keys - Control your Winamp player - Hide application windows - Open, Play and close your CD-ROM - Change the volume, mute - Empty recycle bin - Lock/Unlock Desktop Astatix Launcher allows to quick start any applications and documents in a single click. One of additional features is a Winamp control. You can use any hotkeys to launch applications and control Winamp anytime even you are playing full-screen games. QuickStart is useful for those people, who find it very time consuming to go through the Start Menu every time. With this application, you simply type in a keyword of the application or document you want to start.