Executor is a new player to the game of Windows quick launch applications. With Executor you get a light footprint application that searches not only your start menu for applications but your documents and searches via keywords. It is full of custom settings and also doubles as a hot-key application manager allowing you to setup any application to start with a certain hot-key combo.
Being partial to Launchy I found this program to be a little bloated and a little over configurable. Not bloated in the sense it is too large just bloated in the sense of options they attempted to put into place. The program is still in beta so I will keep an eye on it as it moves into GA and maybe they will clear up some of the bugs that I was seeing. Also I really like the hotkey combo with Launchy of Alt-Spacebar to launch it where as with Executor I cannot choose that key combo. The keywords are a nice touch but it is something else to setup independently and takes too much time. Perhaps I am getting old and set in my ways but I think so far I will stick with Launchy’s quick easy interface and reliability. Plus I am a big fan of my new skin for Launchy!
If you still want to check out Executor you can get it here.
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August 28th, 2008 on 7:41 am
Alt-space works fine for me in Executor.
Calling configurability bloat seems offbase to me.
November 9th, 2008 on 8:21 pm
It seems executor is not very good at guessing likely programs. Launchy is much better.