Runny

Runny is a general windows launcher with zero memory footprint.

How is that possible?

Because it takes advantage of something already built into windows, the run command ( WIN+R )  and windows scripting.

Runny is simply a collection of small executables and windows scripts that are accessible via the windows run command.

It is meant as a bare-bones set of commands that allow you to grow your own dialect of quick launch commands. It does not automatically find programs for you, it’s strictly a manually created set of commands.

Features

  • can create new alias launchers for applications, emails and websites
  • can evaluate math expressions
  • can save and insert commonly used text clips with optional parameters
  • can post messages to twitter
  • can send keys to automate common keystrokes
  • can do clipboard management, pushing and popping text items from and to the clipboard, merging, shifting and more
  • launch custom urls with parameters for site searches
  • can create small one liner jscripts tied to custom commands
  • can create macro commands from other runny commands

Getting started

Invoke the super awesome launcher with the hotkey WIN+R.

Use the ‘new‘ command to start growing your own set of commands.

Called with no parameters, ‘new‘ will simply open a folder where all the commands can be found.  To add a new app launcher, simply copy and paste a shortcut to the application and rename it to the shortened alphanumeric command you would like.

For example, paste a shortcut to Internet Explorer into the runny command folder and rename it to ‘ie‘. Now you can launch it with the hotkey WIN+R and typing ‘ie‘.

Note: When using double quotes (”) in a runny command use 2 backticks (“). Unfortunately windows strips out double-quotes and this way runny will translate 2 backticks to a single double-quote.

Credits

Jay @ flinttownzero.com for the bug testing

G. Born @ borncity.de for the VBScript input window

Unxutils project for clipboard management

Curl project for http stuff