Continue from my previous post of Quick program launching and more at your finger-tip!, launching programs and documents are but just one of the many useful areas of Launchy. You can also use it to do quick google search, perform arithmetic calculation, and even integrate with other programs. Here’s another video to share with you.

 

What I did in this video is to,

1. Perform a quick calculation of 123+456+789. You can see that the result (1368) is shown on the right side as I was typing – isn’t this snappier than bringing up the Windows Calculator?

2. Then I perform Google search for ‘pretty girl’ by just typing the ‘Google’ keyword, press the Tab key, followed by my search keyword, press ENTER, and the Google page immediately pops up on my browser, woot!

3. The third demo shows how I look for files on my computer using the ‘Find’ keyword. This brings up the Windows Search with my search criteria injected and searched!

4. The last demo shows how I actually browse/explore my folders and files directly within the Launchy window!

 

All these and more are at your finger tips, by just pressing the ‘Ctrl-Space’ (configurable) Launchy hotkey!

For integration to the Windows Search, you will first need to download and install the Windows Search feature. Then,

1. go to the Plugins tab in the Launchy setting screen.

2 . Under the Weby plugin, add a new line with the following settings:

    a. Name = ‘Find’

    b. URL = ‘search-ms://’

    c. Query = ‘query=%s&’.