I have been using Launchy for last 15 years since it was first released in 2005. I has been an awesome companion since then and saved me tons of time. Simple press Alt + Space and enter the name of the program you want execute and voila! It allowed skins and specifying directories to include in search and filter the folders based on extensions. Launchy had everything I could have asked. However, it doesn’t work with Windows 10 store apps and it was last updated in 2010 so there are no new updated or patches since then.
Recently, Microsoft released Power Toys as opensource tool on Github. One of the included tools is PowerToys Run. It has the same core functions plus more other added goodies such as “Open containing folder”, “Run as administrator”, and “Open path in console” which I fund quite useful. My only complaint with PowerToys Run is that it doesn’t allow customs paths and instead uses Windows Search Index.