Launch programs with MouseExtender

Launching programs in Windows can be a bit clumsy. Mostly, I add program icons to the Taskbar at the foot of the screen and click on those. But that can be quite slow. Just as slow is using the Start button, and you can only in so many items to the Start menu before you run out of real estate. So I am delighted to have discovered a neat way of launching programs called MouseExtender. Once you have installed it, a click of your mouse's middle button opens the MouseExtender window wherever your cursor happens to be. Then you just click the program icon or folder you want. Adding programs to the launcher is very simple: Right-click in the MouseExtender window and choose Add Running Program. You can also choose other files or folders that you commonly use. ME also provides three system buttons - Control Panel, Restart, and Shutdown - which is very handy. If you need your middle mouse button to do other things - like opening new tabs in your web browser - you can "exclude" MouseExtender from specific programs, which means the middle button goes back to its regular function when those programs are active.