Windows 7 - Faster applications/windows switcher, e.g., by typing application's name? [closed]

I sometimes have many running applications and switching between them with Alt+Tab becomes very tedious. I would like to be able to switch between tasks/windows more quickly. The perfect solution for me would be an application that lets me start typing a window's title and offers a classic auto-complete drop down list to choose from.

Does anybody know of a technique, tool, or lightweight application that offers something similar to this?

Solution 1:

There is a free application called Switcher that boasts many features, one of which is a keyword search integration amongst all open applications. You can read a review of the application on Technospot.

Solution 2:

You might try a little app I wrote, Switcheroo, which is an incremental-search task-switcher for windows:

Switcheroo is for anyone who spends more time using a keyboard than a mouse. Instead of alt-tabbing through a (long) list of open windows, Switcheroo allows you to quickly switch to any window by typing in just a few characters of its title. It's inspired by Emacs's IDO mode buffer switching.

Solution 3:

The lovely autohotkey scripting language!

#NoTrayIcon 
settitlematchmode, RegEx
regex= i)%1%
sleep 100
winactivate, %regex%
ExitApp
Return

This takes a command line option of what window you want to switch to (case insensitive regex), so is perfect for somebody already using an application launcher such as Executor, Launchy, so on.

Solution 4:

Well I'm not really using it yet, but Enso let's you hold caps lock and type what you want to do - including "go windowname" and it auto-completes with dropdown.