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Do you use Desktop Widgets?

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Bjorn_Bear:
Launchy indexes the programs in your Start Menu and the directories you want
and then you can start any of those programs by ALT+SPACE and typing the name of the program.

Download link
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132975&package_id=146049

Armando:
What about the almighty farr? https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/index.html

;)
But, ahem, are these widgets?

mouser:
launchy and Find and Run Robot are not really widgets, at least by my way of thinking.
i was really thinking about desktop things that stay on screen and are usually part of a family of such things where you can choose which widget toys to show and where.

lanux128:
from Wikipedia:  :)

Do you use Desktop Widgets?
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_engine

Ralf Maximus:
i was really thinking about desktop things that stay on screen and are usually part of a family of such things where you can choose which widget toys to show and where.
-mouser (November 11, 2007, 04:04 PM)
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"Toys" is the operative word.  To me, a widget is something fun and nice-to-have, but not integral to your desktop experience.  You shut them down if they consume too much RAM or CPU cycles.

FARR and other programs of its ilk are utilities I would not consider shutting down.

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