Fun With Vista - Quick Launch Shortcuts
If you’re a Quick Launch hound like I am, then your tiny icons next to your start button never get a rest. I have all my important frequently accessed programs stuffed in there - but sometimes it can be a hassle to swing the cursor over and click on each icon. So here’s a tip for you:
Keyboard shortcuts for the Quick Launch icons in Vista. You can open any icon in the Quick Launch bar (just to the right of the Start button) by holding down the Windows key and pressing what I’ll call the “rank number” of the icon - the number that corresponds to its position in the list. So, in my desktop here, Windows + 1 opens Outlook, Windows + 2 opens Internet Explorer, Windows + 5 opens the Snipping Tool and so on. This means that you can set a really simple keyboard shortcut to any program you want - just right-click the program in the Start Menu and choose Add To Quick Launch, then drag-and-drop it to assign the number you want.
I used to hate Quick Launch - now I don’t know how I ever existed without it 
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