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There are lots of alternatives.

Start Menus:
Classic Shell
Pokki
Power8
RetroUI
Start8
StartMenu8
Start Menu X
ViStart
Win8StartButton

Launchers:
7stacks
8start Launcher
Appetizer
Blaze
Executor
Fences
Find and Run Robot
Key Launch
Launchy
ObjectDock
Rainmeter
RK Launcher
RocketDock
SliderDock
ViPad
Winstep Nexus
XWindows Dock

Take your pick. This is just a small list. I know there are many more out there.

This is extra text because Slashdot is lame and says my comment has too few characters per line:

A computer program (also software, or just a program) is a sequence of instructions written to perform a specified task with a computer.[1] A computer requires programs to function, typically executing the program's instructions in a central processor.[2] The program has an executable form that the computer can use directly to execute the instructions. The same program in its human-readable source code form, from which executable programs are derived (e.g., compiled), enables a programmer to study and develop its algorithms.

Computer source code is often written by computer programmers. Source code is written in a programming language that usually follows one of two main paradigms: imperative or declarative programming. Source code may be converted into an executable file (sometimes called an executable program or a binary) by a compiler and later executed by a central processing unit. Alternatively, computer programs may be executed with the aid of an interpreter, or may be embedded directly into hardware.

Computer programs may be categorized along functional lines: system software and application software. Two or more computer programs may run simultaneously on one computer, a process known as multitasking.

Well luckily for you, Win-R still does exactly what it used to do in XP. You're complaining that two completely different features don't provide a 1-to-1 mapping to the functionality to each other. IMHO the Win7 search bar is way to slow and practically useless. I replaced it first with Find and Run Robot and then Launchy because Mouser is a silly fuck who likes to annoy is users and make them periodically visit his stupid fucking forums to get a free code, for no obvious reason what so ever.

The problem with the Win7/Vista Start Menu search is that is apparently is incapable of caching results, even though it burns cycles like no-ones business building some (apparently) useless index. It still takes 10-20 seconds for the silly thing to recognize a search string that I use all the time. By contrast, FARR and Launchy are pulling up results as I type, and actually bother to learn that when I type "notepad++" the first result should be the actual application, and not the bloody help file.

Not sure how well it scales to your level of data, but Find And Run Robot may be just what you are looking for.

A couple other comments mention Everything as being quite good, but is not when I have tried out.

I've written an online Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulator where people can experiment with pairwise team predictions in order to not just predict tournament winners, but more interestingly, to evaluate the most profitable expected payoffs from current betting odds (which are almost never the most likely teams to win). The page goes into the statistical basis of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) quite a bit, and the simulation is all done client-side using javascript. Might be interesting for those who like this kind of stuff. http://www.donationcoder.com/wcp

Yes, but that makes everyone do the work, not just one person, and in this case, it takes a considerable amount of reading to realize who is the originator.

Skrommel ZoneSize, do a text search of the page.

http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=8268.0

It's a bit out of date now but the quality of Foxit has not changed in V2.3. Compare the font rendering to Adobe or Sumatra.

But you have the spec:-) http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/WordProcs/Screenshots/06-word07-spec.jpg

Use URL Snooper to find the actual URL of the video: http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/urlsn ooper/index.html

Regarding window manager, I use wmii that will arrange the windows efficiently, but only works on X11. I have to use Windows at work, so I use an GridMove, an autohotkey script that does something similar and works on on dualscreen.

Try ProcessTamer. It lets you define rules and automatically raises/lowers the priority of "misbehaving" processes. Quite a nice app, too bad it has an annoying free registration procedure (as does most of the software on that site). --CK

did u try Process Tamer ?
I didn't try it, but if it does what it says on the tin then this is what you want.

yes there is an util already:
perform random URL queries (Random Submitter)
http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?t opic=211.0

You can find out more about this here -> http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?t opic=4147.msg29299#msg29299 This is the person this article is about.

Not all people who download things are moral-free. With music, for example, many people download music to try it out and then buy it if they think the artist deserves the money - and not buy it if it's not worth the money.

This sounds like a nice idea, but most people that download music, burn it and don't bother buying it.

When I was in college back in 2000, everyone I knew stopped buying music when napster came out.

It's human nature. If you are not forced to buy something, you most likely won't.

a very interesting article on donations: http://www.donationcoder.com/Articles/One/index.ht ml

a quote from the end of the article: "It's probably not possible to make a good living on Donationware, but it might be possible to give up your day job and live above the poverty line eventually, if you're willing to take the work seriously and willing to invest a lot of time and energy"