I have found the Windows sister of the Mac’s Quicksilver program, thank God! It’s called Launchy, and boy is it one sweet freeware app, perfect for my work computer which has to be Windows. From the site:
“Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about
your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.
Launchy
indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents,
project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!”
LAUNCHY
Awesome. I have been looking for something like this for a while now!
You have to configure it more than quicksilver, but still….