A simple handy command line utility. It is designed to enhance the role of keyboard in Windows interface, by adding ability to easily launch programs with it. For example in TrayCL you can assign the "w" alias to MSWord ("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WINWORD.EXE"). Then, to start Word you would simply press Ctrl-Space and type "w" into TrayCL window that pops up. We find this way of launching programs very fast and convenient especially when Start Menu has many entries and it gets hard to find the required application among them. Although TrayCL is designed primarily for launching programs, you can have it learn DOS commands (like md,dir,copy) as well by assigning aliases with those names. TrayCL also has many handy features like customizable activation Hotkey, Fast Alias addition, Command History, Windows Shell Commands (such as URL Opening), Fast Run Hotkey, Smart Text Auto-Completion. TrayCL is designed to consume very little amount of memory and system resources. It is written in Visual C++ 6 and doesn't require any runtime dlls (in contrast to similar utilities that were written in Visual Basic). TrayCL is 100% freeware. It's worth to give it a try.

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