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I like putting shortcuts of the form ‘g – google.lnk’ in my start menu so google is two keystrokes away. Win, g.
My eight or so most frequent applications go there.
I also make links to my solution files I am always opening ‘x – Popular Project.lnk’
Are there any better ways to automate opening frequently used applications?
AutoHotkey is a reasonably good program for implementing windows key shortcuts. You might instead define WIN + G to be ‘open browser to google’ which gives you a better response time (don’t have to wait for start menu to popup, etc)
There are macro programs that change the macros used based on the window that’s in focus. I’ve never needed that much control, but you might want to look into that.
-Adam