Create a new email in MS Outlook with Launchy

I realized recently that I was never looking at my Outlook application when I wanted to start a new email to someone, and I had no quick-and-easy way to launch a new email message. So after a quick search Google search, I found this site with instructions on how to do many things in Outlook from the command line. And it was super easy to whip up a quick batch script that could do exactly what I wanted, then put it in my ‘bin’ directory where I keep all my other Launchy scripts (as described in this post).

Now to pop up a new Outlook email message, it’s as easy as typing “Alt-Space newmail”.

Finding new uses for Launchy is wonderful.