Application launchers

feature of the Windows software

The taskbar is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95, displaying and facilitating switching between running programs. The taskbar and the associated Start Menu were created and named in 1993 by Daniel Oran, a program manager at Microsoft who had previously collaborated on great ape language research with the behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner at Harvard.

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PortableApps.com is a website that distributes free applications for Windows that have been packaged for portability. These portable applications are intended to be used from removable storage devices such as USB flash drives.

mobile application launcher

application launcher for Linux

Launchy is a free and open-source application launcher for Windows, , FreeBSD and Linux. It indexes shortcuts in the start menu, and files in specific folders, to allow quicker access to programs without opening the start menu or browsing to folders.

taskbar implementation for the GNOME desktop environment

Apple software running on macOS and its derivatives

taskbar for the K Desktop Environment

RocketDock is an application launcher developed by PolyVector and Skunkie of Punk Labs, in collaboration with artist Zachary Denton Q. It is designed for Windows and offers a dock similar to the one found in the Mac OS X Aqua graphical user interface. RocketDock is available for free under a Creative Commons license and is distributed by Punk Labs, which was previously known as Punk Software.

user interface dock for Linux

utility software for macOS

software that restores several Windows user interface (Shell) features