Pretty Run is almost indispensable to me.
I actually use it to search in my start menu, control panel, Firefox bookmarks, contacts, videos, a database and part of my documents, and occasionally to take screenshots or notes.
Its indexing on-the-fly is extremely fast and efficient (no matter how many new items are added, they will be immediately available for searching without the need to rescan, manually or at certain intervals) and doesn't harm its responsiveness.
Despite all its many helpful features, I still consider it lightweight.
As nothing is perfect, it has two cons:
-A major one: it calls home looking for updates, and there's no way to deactivate this behavior.
-A minor one: I can't define ALT+Space as the hotkey (to which I was accustomed with
Launchy).
david.lynch wrote:Another example of a task bar productivity app is
Taskix, very welcome also!
I prefer
Taskbar Shuffle.
