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Appetizer is a free application launcher or dock for Windows. It helps you to open or launch your favorite and most commonly used programs easily. It allows organizing your shortcuts and folders into a convenient dock which is customizable and also skinable. This utility is also available as a portable application, so that you can launch it from your USB drives as well.

Appetizer

When using Appetizer from a USB drive in the PortableApps format, this application will detect it and automatically import all your applications along with the ‘Documents’, ‘Videos’, ‘Music’ and ‘Pictures’ folders. Other features of this application include drag and drop support and also arranging shortcuts into groups. Appetizer supports skins, so you can change the look and feel to match the Windows theme.

Features of Appetizer;

  • Support for plugins
  • Support for multiple skins
  • Resizable dock, which allows displaying the icons both horizontally or vertically.
  • Icon size can be changed, three sizes available.
  • ‘Wizard’ to automatically imports shortcuts from various locations
  • Organize the icons by drag and dropping them
  • Launch multiple programs at the same time
  • Regroup multiple shortcuts within one menu

Appetizer is a great program to launch application application and also has some great features. This application is worth a try. There is also a portable version available for USB drives.

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Written By Nirmal

Nirmal is a Technology Blogger and a Microsoft MVP in Windows. Nirmal is also the editor-in-chief and owner of Life Rocks 2.0. He can be contacted at nirmal@nirmaltv.com. You can also follow him on Twitter @nirmaltv

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