Computer Software Reviews
Copyright (c) 1994, Louis Turbeville
All rights reserved
 
Launch! version 1.8
Windows 3.1 Shareware Program
Rodney Savard
Internet: rodsavard@aol.com
 
Launch! is an ingenious program you use to easily start any program in Windows
3.1.  If you are like me, you sometimes have trouble double-clicking on an
icon to get it started in Program Manager.  Launch! is basically a graphical
menu system and with it you simply click once on an icon and your program is
started.
 
The other great benefit of Launch! is the amount of icons you can pile onto a
screen.  Launch! will clear up your cluttered windows desktop.  Launch! puts
all of the icons in a box just large enough to hold the icon.  Then these
boxes are put together in a table format, with you specifying the amount of
rows or columns Launch! is to display and allow you to use.  If you specify 3
rows and 4 columns then you can use 12 cells to launch any program.  For me it
is worth the price to clear up my cluttered screen.
 
Using Launch! could not be simpler.  You click your RIGHT mouse button on a
vacant box in the Launch! displayed table and you can input or edit the
contents of that box.  Click on an icon box once with your LEFT button mouse
and the program is launched.  Very simple and very effective.
 
Registration is quick and easy.  When you register you will be mailed a code.
This code can be input anytime you start Launch!.  Once this code is input you
are working with a registered version of the program, which is minus the
Opening delay screen.  You do not have to load any new files and therefore
eliminate the opportunity to delete any setting you have.  A growing trend for
Shareware authors is to use registration codes, which benefits the user and
the author.
 
A statement to it's excellence is the fact that the program rights have
recently been bought with the intent of commercializing the program.  Mr
Savard stated that he will not be supporting the commercial version, but will
support any users of the shareware program.  There is not much that can be
done to improve this program, without keeping it as simple to use, so don't
wait for the commercial version, go out and download the shareware version and
give it a test drive.  I'm sure you'll be pleased, I know I was.

