BrandonTools

I love it, thanks very much !

This is fantastic.

Excellent...very good

illass

Mr. Paddock, may I suggest you include something like "play [all|artist|album|genre] random" to the next release?

Wonderful tools, adds another productivity boost when using Vista, many thanks!

Hey, is it possible to configure it so using the playartist or playalbum command plays it in another media player besides WMP11?

Thank you,, Excellent...very good

Great tool!!! Continue the good work :) an open version on codeplex would even be better !

This is a fantastic tool you've created. Thanks so much!

thanks mate

Now THIS is a FANTASTIC tool!

This should be in Vista by default. Priceless.

Cool, Thanks

good work my friend

Hi there: Thanks for developing all these apps. How about making Start++ capable of triggering actions through a combo of key hits + typed text strings, like MacroMaker, found here: http://members.ij.net/anthonymathews/MacroMaker.htm ? Regards

i d0nt know yet. let me try it and after i will tell u my coments

Fantastic work!

Hi Brandon, I'm one of the few with the dll errors. Here's a link to the error dialogue screenshot I took. http://i12.tinypic.com/66kd0ue.png

As an aside, you may want to update your quick links ;)

Hey, this looks AWESOME! Unfortunately, when I run it on Windows Vista Ultimate I still get the hook error identical to the screenshot from GKS as well! Help! Fix! Make work! :)

Very nice.

--------------------------- --------------------------- Start++ BETA A problem was encountered when trying to load the Start++ hook DLL. Exception: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: ptr File: SPPHookDll32.dll Application: G:\Program Files\Brandon Paddock\Start++\Start++.exe HookModule: null --------------------------- OK ---------------------------

When I start up Start++ 0.7.5, it comes up with this error: --------------------------- --------------------------- Start++ BETA A problem was encountered when trying to load the Start++ hook DLL. Exception: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: ptr File: SPPHookDll32.dll Application: C:\Program Files\Brandon Paddock\Start++\Start++.exe HookModule: null --------------------------- OK --------------------------- anyone got the previous version??

The download link doesn't lead anywhere!

Link leads to a nonexistant page. Auto notification but dead end here! :o(

Yeah, what's up with the link? Is there another location to get the dl?

Sorry guys! The link should be fixed now.

Hook.dll error's occuring in this new release. It was working fine in 0.76 :(

I'm getting the Hook.dll error too, on Ultimate x64. It worked fine in 0.6!

I'm getting the hook.dll error as well on 32-bit Vista. Gonna try a fresh install to see if that fixes it.

Sorry guys, thought I had that fixed. Emperor - 0.77 is the same as 0.76 in that regard, not sure why it would be different at all. There's a workaround here: http://brandontools.com/forums/permalink/239/282/ShowThread.aspx#282

It is very good.THX!

Thanks very much for you effort. I like it a lot. I'm using the dutch 64bit version of vista and it works perfectly. Thx!

Brandon- super tool. first used it on Vista Business, now have a new computer running Ultimate, your tool works great on both. thanks!

I think it's made by a hero~~~

The download link is broken! Nothing downloads! Agh! It looks perfect.

I just found it here: http://www.freewarefiles.com/downloads_counter.php?programid=28503

It doesn't work!!!!☺... oops wrong emoticon ;'-(

Verry cool program, thanks!

How do you install the msi files?

Great

Hi Brandon, I REALLY love this tool, however, since installing this new release, the response time between typing a shortcut and Start++ registering it is REALLY slow (1-2 seconds). I never had this before.. Basically, I type the shortcut, and straight away a small Start++ icon appears, but if I push "Enter" here, it does not register the shortcut. If I wait a little bit, it changes to the all-so-familiar large icon that actually works... Any suggestions? Many Thanks, keep up the great work. Rob

Hi Rob, You're right that typing shortcuts with no parameters do have a slight delay now (although I don't think it's quite 1-2 seconds. Should be half a second or so). It's a side effect of changes I made to make queries *with* parameters (particulary the "gadgets") work better. I will work to tweak that this weekend and try to do a minor update to address that and one or two other small issues. One workaround for now would be to press the spacebar after typing your shortcut, which should force it to update immediately.

Hi Brandon, Thanks for the reply, for now I have just reverted back to 0.79. There may have been a little bit of exaggeration on the timing :) Thanks for your support and again, great work! :)

Hey Rob, if you see this, could you please let me know if 0.8.1 fixes this for you? :)

Great tool. I used to use slick run, but on vista, it never launched apps with command line parameters correctly. Same thing with Launchy. This works, though! Hooray for connecting to a remote machine with remote desktop by typing rd <machine name>! Command line parameters FTW!

Fantastic tool. Thank you very much.

Damn, well done. Just a thought, though, why do the links for googling stuff open in IE, rather than your primary set browser?

Parabens. Gostei muito de seu software. Indico para todos os amigos. Muito sucesso.

PY - If you type "g something" and press enter, it should open up the Google search page in your default browser. However, if you click a link inside the "gadget" itself, it will open in IE because IE is the one rendering the gadget. I plan to look into fixing this in a future update.

I recently saw this on Lifehacker. Though a fan of Launchy, I took a look at Start++, and I love it. I didn't realize that the Vista search bar had this much functionality (I've only had it for a few months), and Start++ is the icing on the cake. Thanks!

the "Valid Column List" in the script editor takes you to a broken link "http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms788673.aspx". do you know the proper one? Thanks

It rocks. The hottest thing in all of Vista.

This is great. A real time saver. I love that I can customize it. Well done!

I ike what I see. Will be trying it out in detail

hey, this is excellent! i love it! the only problem is that i am unable to use the 'play' function. whenever i write 'play (artist) in the search bar, it says : 'no media found'. Do i have to have the media in a particular folder for this to work?? thanks George

Hi George - You don't need to have it in a specific folder, but whatever folder it is in must be indexed by Windows Search. If you type "Indexing" into the start menu you should see the Indexing Options control panel show up. From there you can modify the indexed locations and include whatever folder your media is in. By default, the only indexed directories are under x:\Users (which includes the default Music / Documents / Pictures folders, etc) Let me know if that helps you!