title: Best shortcut management tool for development machine?
body: <p>As a developer I had a slew of shortcuts and applications used daily.  Visual Studio 6, 2003, 2005, 2008, SQL Client tools, WinMerge, Notepad++, Synergy, VMware (and lots and lots of VMs, multiple browsers, and on top of all that about 20 shortcuts to important directories, servers, test environments etc...</p>
  
  <p>The Vista start menu is a lifesaver for getting to many of them quickly.  However there are plenty of daily tasks that still require a relatively large amount of work to access (open a folder, jump through a few sub-folders, find a specific file and fire it off.</p>
  
  <p>What tools/applications/utilities do you find to be the most beneficial to providing organized and fast access to all of your most frequently visited tools?</p>
  
  <p>What are some tools that can be embedded on the task bar of Windows that provide similar functionality to drawers in Linux or stacks in OS X?  My current quick-launch bar (and other folders added to the task bar) eat up tons of real estate and insist on opening new explorer windows to display sub-directories, which suffices but is still slow and polutes my desktop.</p>
  
  <p><em>...can't wait for tomorrow to get the Win 7 RC and its finally improved task bar</em></p>