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Keyboard Launchpad gives you the capability to animate and customize the wallpaper on your Windows desktop. Choose from the massive integrated library or use your own images or video files to personalize your desktop.
Keyboard Launchpad lets you create keyboard shortcuts to launch programs, access your clipboard and more.


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<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Key Features </h2>
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Key Features </h2>
*NEW! Massive WinCustomize.com background and Dream library integration
*'''Turn''' system commands into hot keys
*Easily customize and create your own animated backgrounds from images and videos
*'''Turn''' your clipboard into a permanent hot key
*NEW! H.264 video support
*'''Store''' passwords and frequent responses
*Custom rendering engine minimizes CPU usage for animations and videos
*Apply over 60 special effects to your backgrounds
*Apply any Dream as your PC screensaver


<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Animate</h2>
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Features</h2>
===Animate your Windows desktop wallpaper===
Do you wish there was an easier way to perform those tasks you repeat over and over? Keyboard Launchpad™ allows you to create keyboard short-cuts for your programs, saved clipboards, URLs, system commands, and more.
Use video and Dream files with Keyboard Launchpad to apply animated wallpaper to your desktop. The .Dream format, which Keyboard Launchpad uses, has been specially designed to contain content used to animate wallpaper. You can also apply any dream as your PC screensaver!


===Easily customize and create your own backgrounds===
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Global Hotkeys</h2>
Keyboard Launchpad includes over 60 special effects plus colorization options to make any image or video into a fantastic, custom background. Want to create a .Dream to share? Use the included Dream Maker app to package your own animated or video creations.
===Works system-wide===
No matter what program you're in, or what you're doing, you can always access the hotkeys of Keyboard Launchpad.


<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Stylize</h2>
===Administrators===
===Add cool effects to your background===
Bring up a hidden admin program for use in kiosks and corporate desktops.
Choose from over 60 effects to apply to any background. Effects include: black and white, blur, canvas texture, inverted, night vision, pop art, sepia, and animated snow, just to name a few!


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===Clipboard===
Copy images or text into a clipboard snippet and assign it to a hotkey. From then on, that saved clipboard will be pasted when the hotkey is used.


===Recolor your existing wallpaper===
===Chain events===
Using a simple slider Keyboard Launchpad helps you apply new colors to backgrounds. Color customization can be applied to an entire image or only to select colors.
Make multi-tasking easy by chaining multiple events to a single hotkey.


===Multiple monitor support===
Keyboard Launchpad capabilities give you the option to have different backgrounds on each of your monitors or stretch video and static backgrounds over multiple monitors.


<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Create</h2>
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Specific Hotkeys</h2>
===Easy-to-use configuration dialog===
===Specialized programs===
The user interface is intuitive and so easy to use that you can create a great looking custom desktop design with just a few clicks. An always present preview helps you see what your desktop will look like before applying effects to your new background.
Whether you need to send "canned" technical support responses or add hot key support for specialized programs, our open plug-in format lets you create it.
 
===Online===
Quickly navigate through admin pages and other commonly visited websites, since specific URLs can be assigned to a hotkey. Store passwords, frequent responses and more.




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<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> Official Pages </h2>
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> Official Pages </h2>
*[https://www.stardock.com/products/Keyboard Launchpad/ Keyboard Launchpad Website]  
*[https://www.stardock.com/products/klp/ Keyboard Launchpad Website]  
*[https://forums.stardock.com/forum/432 Keyboard Launchpad Forums]
*[https://forums.stardock.com/forum/283 Keyboard Launchpad Forums]
*[https://www.facebook.com/official.stardock/ Stardock Facebook]  
*[https://www.facebook.com/official.stardock/ Stardock Facebook]  
*[https://twitter.com/stardock Stardock Twitter]  
*[https://twitter.com/stardock Stardock Twitter]  

Revision as of 14:20, 19 January 2021

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About Keyboard Launchpad

Keyboard Launchpad lets you create keyboard shortcuts to launch programs, access your clipboard and more.

Key Features

  • Turn system commands into hot keys
  • Turn your clipboard into a permanent hot key
  • Store passwords and frequent responses

Features

Do you wish there was an easier way to perform those tasks you repeat over and over? Keyboard Launchpad™ allows you to create keyboard short-cuts for your programs, saved clipboards, URLs, system commands, and more.

Global Hotkeys

Works system-wide

No matter what program you're in, or what you're doing, you can always access the hotkeys of Keyboard Launchpad.

Administrators

Bring up a hidden admin program for use in kiosks and corporate desktops.

Clipboard

Copy images or text into a clipboard snippet and assign it to a hotkey. From then on, that saved clipboard will be pasted when the hotkey is used.

Chain events

Make multi-tasking easy by chaining multiple events to a single hotkey.


Specific Hotkeys

Specialized programs

Whether you need to send "canned" technical support responses or add hot key support for specialized programs, our open plug-in format lets you create it.

Online

Quickly navigate through admin pages and other commonly visited websites, since specific URLs can be assigned to a hotkey. Store passwords, frequent responses and more.