Start menu can be cluttered, so that opening a program needs a lot of search. Pretty Run helps you with that as it searches start menu (it can search desktop and any other folder too) for the shortcuts or files that meet your query.

You can search as you type or when you press enter. Icons of your last used programs are displayed for immediate access (great, in periods that you open the same programs every day). Supports searching the web as well (you can setup search engines by yourself if you want).

With plugins you can add functionality to PrettyRun. There is an example of how to add logoff and shutdown functionality.

It also supports searching through Internet Explorer favorites and Firefox bookmars. Mp3 plugin included (dll and sources) that knows how to search mp3 files by tag, not file-name.

It is difficult to figure out how to do an mp3 tag search with Pretty Run. Here it is: you go to the Options and press the Add button, then select Plugin and below “MP3Plugin”. Then you go to the Plugins tab and you configure MP3 Plugin, defining which folder to search. Pretty Run will now include in the searches this custom mp3 search. However, there should be available an easier method of changing these options or enabling and disabling mp3 search.

Note also that mp3 search does not go through all the tags; you can not search an mp3 by its bit rate for example.

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