Launchy Problems

I finally fixed it. Whew. I love Launchy, but at work I couldn’t get it to work. Well actually, at one point it did work then I messed something up, reinstalled it, but never got it to work again.

Every time I pressed alt+space nothing would happen. Ok, it would do the Windows default action but it would not bring up Launchy. I tried uninstalling, installing and reinstalling. Finally I checked out the forums and after much searching I hit upon a subject that was close enough to my problem.

Basically, kill the Launchy process (task manager), goto where the application data resides and delete the Launchy .ini file. That resets Launchy to its default settings. For XP that’s c:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Launchy. Vista will be slightly different.

If you’ve never tried Launchy I highly recommend it.
http://launchy.net

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  • maheswaran krishnan
    thanks a lot, i was having the same problem, it is fixed now
  • Nikhil
    Hi, I don't know if this is relevant at all but i use and love launchy too. However, the strangest thing happened out of the blue..Launchy is still launched, although anything typed in there has no response. I already have presets on there, even those don't work. I've rebooted in safe mode (i'm running Win XP SP2) used CCleaner to uninstall it, then downloaded it from souceforge again and installed it, to no avail.

    Any recommendations will be welcome.
  • Nikhil
    I did what you'd described above and got it, i don't know why i didn't think of it!

    Thanks a ton
  • Stefan
    HI,

    THANK YOU!!! I used Launchy 1 for a long time and loved it. So I installed Launchy 2.1.2 (and 2.0 before) after uninstall of Launchy 1, but it always terminated after a few minutes without any reason.

    I tried your reommendation .. and now IT WORKS!!!! In my situation, the usage of CCleaner was it.

    Thanks
    Stefan
  • Henry94
    Big thumbs up to you. just installed it today and had problem. All good now.
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