True Launch Bar 5.6.3 Beta

3.9 out of 5 stars 3.9 (249 votes)

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Windows 7/2000/Server 2003/Server 2008/Vista/XP / Shareware; $19.90 / 8,968 downloads

True Launch Bar is a superior replacement for the standard Quick Launch bar. All functions presented in Quick Launch are also in True Launch Bar. However, the True Launch Bar is fully compatible with Quick Launch because it uses the same folder for shortcuts. But there is one huge difference. True Launch Bar allows you to combine your shortcuts into groups. This feature looks like popup menus. This vastly improves the management of your shortcuts and save working space on your desktop. By using True Launch Bar, you speed up the launching of your applications like never before.

  • Homepage

    True Launch Bar

  • Limitations

    Yes - 30 day timeout

  • Uninstaller

    Yes

  • Latest Changes

    - Word wrap option for menu items

    - ALT + left button click now opens the plugin properties or customize item dialog box

    - Added icon location into the Customize menu dialog box

    - Fill the arrange by list with correct items for plugin submenus in the Customize SubMenus dialog box

    - Added the option "TLB Settings->Options->General->Combine user's and common items" (on by default). If this option is turned on then the virtual folders with Start menu content shows shortcuts and menus from both common and user's folders

    - Activate the first toolbar button on get keyboard focus

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  1. 1 out of 5 stars
    HeilNizar

    Reviewing 5.6.3 Beta (Jan 18, 2012)

    I agree with SineWave,
    If you are so desperate to have a launcher then you could at least use Rocketdock.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    darkwzrd1

    Reviewing 5.6.3 Beta (Jan 17, 2012)

    @SineWave, your a idiot. If your worried about 12mb in this day of age your clearly clueless.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    uberfly

    Reviewing 5.3 (Feb 26, 2011)

    SineWave, Thanks for the useless rant. Here, have a useless retort in return.

  4. 1 out of 5 stars
    SineWave

    Reviewing 5.3 (Feb 26, 2011)

    12MB for a quicklaunch bar??? Guys, even MicroSoft makes more optimised programs... Besides, I can't understand useless programs that try to invent hot water. People, you have QuickLaunch that can hold 10-20 programs to look reasonable, you have the whole desktop for shortcuts, you can organise by hand your Start menu... what use is yet another place to start your programs with that consumes so much memory and CPU in the background. Mayb e I could understand if it was freeware, but it's not.

    Too many people got their hands on tools like Visual Basic and .NET and writing just about any program with these tools takes megabytes instead of kilobytes. What a shame. No stars. Ok, I'll give you one if I must.

    Cheers! Try making some more useful program. Sorry, but programming practices today are disgusting, there's no eagerness to optimise the code and get rid of all the bugs, everything should be made as soon as possible and make some money...

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    tranglos

    Reviewing 4.4.13 RC5 (Sep 10, 2010)

    Between True Launch Bar and Find and Run Robot I have no need for the Start menu. On the face of it, it may look as though TLB just puts shortcuts in the Quick Launch area (which you can do manually indeed), but that's barely scratching the surface.

    TLB is infinitely configurable, allowing you to make it look and behave exactly as is convenient to you. Best of all, it comes with a fantastic support for both keyboard and mouse. I have nine TLB "folders", each with its own icon, and a Win+digit hotkey assigned to each. Win+1 opens the folder I use the most, with office apps, browser, email etc., Win+3 opens my folder with media players, and so on. So most of the time I don't need the mouse to start the app I want. But if you're already mousing around, TLB can open up the folders by just hovering the mouse pointer over them - much easier and faster this way.

    TLB is a very carefully thought-out and well-designed application, with just the right set of features. Design-wise, it's way up there with the best like Total Commander and Beyond Compare. It's one of the rare apps that feel just right, and when you think you need a feature, most of the time you find out it's already there for you.

    (And if you try TLB, check out the variety of available plugins.)

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