A very lightweight launcher that uses the Windows Start Menu for custom commands.
Configure via UI. Execute via Start Menu.
Use as developer or for testing only. App runs in system tray and minimizes back to systemtray when window is closed. Configure commands on the UI. Batch files that execute your command are created in the bin folder. Windows shortcuts are created in the current users' windows start menu. Windows indexes the shortcuts within seconds. Use vie start menu. Keeps running as taskbar program. Commands are stored in a JSON file and the file is being watched for updates as long as the program is running. For the future it is planned that the file can be placed anywhere - e.g. dropbox.
Since it is still alpha you may experience crashes or loss of shortcuts you have already configured. Uninstall may not clear everything - although it should work but you never know.
Start Menu Folder is located here:
C:\Users\[YOURUSERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Start Launcher
cmd.exe is the limit. there is no limit.
Open internet explorer with new session and specific url
iexplore.exe -noframemerging http://localhost/myApsNetDevProject/start.aspx
Open chrome with icognito modus (no cache)
chrome --incognito http://localhost/myAngularDevProject/#/search
Open windows explorer with specific path
explorer c:\Super\Annoying\Path\that\I\need\all\the\time
Open Git Extensions with specific repository
gitextensions openrepo C:\projects\startlauncher\
Fetch all and open Git Extensions with this specific repository afterwards
cmd /c "cd C:\projects\startlauncher\ & git fetch --all & start gitextensions"
Cleanup tmp folder incl. all files and subfolders
cmd /c "rmdir c:\tmp /S /Q & mkdir c:\tmp"