StartFast: a simple utility that helps you find programs and start it.
For various reasons my Start menu has many programs and program groups in it. I see three columns of programs when I expand the "All Programs" in my Start menu. This made finding and starting programs a little time consuming.
So, I decided to do something about it and wrote a python script which would search the shortcuts [.lnk files] in my Start menu and lauch it. Later I also added searching my desktop for shortcuts. To simplify sharing and in the interest of trying out GotDotNet, I published it at GotDotNet and called it StartFast.
Check it out. I am fairly new to python [using IronPython] so my style is still very C#. Any suggestions regarding my python style would be appreciated.
I am aware that Windows Vista will have a program search built into the Start menu and Google Desktop has a Quick Search feature for searching programs amongst other things. However, my current OS is Windows XP and I am not interested in using Google Desktop search [I am happy with Yahoo! desktop search which I use only when I need to search for a file. I don't run it as a system tray application].
This marks a minor return to coding after a long break.