^Above:Looking for items with “Sol” in the title.
RocketLaunch V0.9.2
©2006 SolidSnake
Table Of Contents
2.The Secret behind RocketLaunch
RocketLaunch is a free utility to make finding items in your start menu easier. If you are like most people your Start menu is very crowded and a pain to navigate through. With RocketLaunch you just type in all or part of the name of what you are looking for and it will instantly show you matches. Take a look at the screen shot below.
^Above:Looking
for items with “Sol” in the title.
2.The Secret behind RocketLaunch
The secret behind RocketLaunch is it's SDB or ShortcutDataBase. This is how RocketLaunch is able to return results so quickly. It is a database that contains data about all of the shortcuts in your start menu. It is faster then conventional search methods because it does not have to generate the database on the fly. It is also faster then many similar methods for finding items in the Start Menu because it only contains data about shortcuts in the start menu as opposed to all the files your entire computer.
Starting RocketLaunch is simple. Just double click its executable or a shortcut to it that you have created. It is recommended that you place a shortcut to RocketLaunch on your desktop for easy access to the program.
Using RocketLaunch is easy. The first time you start RocketLaunch it will generate the it's SDB. (For more info see section 2) After that is complete you can just open RocketLaunch and type all or part of the name of the program you want to run. As you type results are generated. To select a result just click the results box a select the program you want to run. It's that Rocket. Now you can quickly and easily find what you are look for without opening the start menu. It should be noted that in order for newly added items to show up in your results you must update the SDB. It is recommended you do this after installing new programs.
RocketLaunch
has a number of different options which you can set. To get to them
just click the options button once in RocketLaunch.
Following below is a general overview of the options available and what they do. They are categorized by what tab they are on in the options window.
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Name as shown in Options menu |
Description |
|---|---|
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Queries are case-sensitive |
Makes the search feature case-sensitive |
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"Enter" key equals "Launch" button |
Makes pressing the “Enter” key on your keyboard equivalent to pressing the”Launch” button in the RocketLaunch window. |
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Exit after launch |
Makes RocketLaunch automatically after you launch one of the results that it found. (Similar to Run found in the start menu.) |
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Name as shown in Options menu |
Description |
|---|---|
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Index local Start Men |
Makes RocketLaunch index the current user's start menu when the SDB is generated. |
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Index global Start Menu |
Makes RocketLaunch index the All Users start menu when the SDB is generated. |
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Regenerate on system startup |
Makes RocketLaunch regenerate the SDB every time your system is started.
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Regenerate SDB Now |
Regenerates the SDB. It is recommended you do this after installing new programs so that they can be added to the database. |
Please enjoy RocketLaunch and feel free to email me if you have any comments,questions,or suggestions. Also, if you think you have found a bug in this program please notify me so it can be fixed in the next version.