Windows PowerPro is a kind of swiss army knife for Microsoft Windows. I’ve been using it since way back when, before it was free, when it was called Stiletto. It presents bars on the screen that can act as button-based launchers, but can also run commands on keystrokes, mouse chords, time intervals, and other events. The commands it runs can be applications, dialogs, display menus, act on windows, and lots more.

When I was a Windows guy, running it all the time, PowerPro was the first piece of software I installed on a machine I was going to spend any time with.

Windows PowerPro has been released free of charge by Bruce Switzer. I used to communicate a lot with Bruce back in the Stiletto days, and he was very receptive to my bug reports and feature requests. Nice guy, killer app.

Resources

• Windows PowerPro home page

• Stuff that Powerpro replaces — a running list of tools that duplicate pieces of what’s possible with Powerpro