Launcher

Quickstart-Toolbar

Here I would like to introduce you to a program that has been serving me well for years.

It is an alternative launch bar for Windows that captures, displays and starts files of any kind with a simple mouse click.

Some of the features of the Launcher:

• Small, extremely fast and resource-friendly, with minimal hardware requirements.

• Requires no installation and saves nothing to the registry. Available as Setup.exe with uninstaller or as a simple zip archive.

• Runs independently of assigned drive letters. The perfect solution for USB sticks.

• Offers a visually appealing and intuitive interface in a freely resizable window with impressively crisp rendering quality.

• Much more elegant and significantly faster than the Windows Start menu, which is often cluttered and overwhelming.

• Correctly resolves shortcuts including their parameters, and lets you assign more meaningful labels.

• Highly flexible arrangement of your icons. The window can be placed anywhere on the desktop and snaps to screen edges.

• Multiple ways to minimize, hide, keep always in the foreground, or automatically slide off the screen — shows up only when needed!

• Freely adjustable window transparency with smooth fade-in and fade-out effects.

• Icons and hotkeys with numerous special functions.

• Set your own background image, which really comes into its own in combination with a frameless window.

• A tinted window adapts even better to your desktop background. Pages can also be sorted by color.

• Simple security concept with a lockable main menu — perfect as parental controls at home or on any shared computer.

• Use popup windows to display messages of any kind, both on your local machine and on remote computers within your network.

• Integrated call monitor for incoming and outgoing calls (FritzBox required) with optional reverse number lookup and a warning for suspicious phone numbers.

• Advanced clipboard with the ability to easily insert frequently used text snippets.

• Battery indicator for laptops, monitor brightness control, screen magnifier.

• Localized in 23 languages. (German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Turkish, Greek, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean)

• and many more ...

The latest version of the Launcher v5.0.1 has been online since April 13, 2026.