Vista Start Menu Health Without Start++

Coolness: 0.5

Usefulness: 0.8

Show-Off Factor: 3.9

Vista Start Menu Health With Start++

Coolness: 14.2

Usefulness: 999.9

Show-Off Factor: 24.9

Start + + is a tiny add-on application that permits you to create aliases of words and characters to commands or searches. You can specify commands to run with administrator privileges. You can even save the commands as "Startlets" and share them with friends.

Here are some Start++ usage examples:

• Search Google by typing in g <keyword>

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• Search Dictionary by using d <keyword>

• Search Wikipedia by using w <keyword>

• Search IMDB by using imdb <keyword>

• Search anywhere by making a custom search command:

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• Use sudo before any command to make it run as administrator:

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Finally, a sudo command for Windows Vista!

• Search music to play, and open in Media Player. You can use the "Play Nickleback", for instance. You are looking forward to testing these commands.

• Start++ even works from the command prompt.

• Create an alias for what you want. You can set the "I" to open Internet Explorer, and "F" for Firefox, for example.