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Colibri happens to be my favorite launcher. I tried it a long time ago, but never used it because it wasn't possible to add your own search paths for applications. This meant that all my little PortableApps never appeared in Colibri's index of applications I could launch.
Well, there is a post over on the Colibri forums that details how you can add your own search paths. It's a bit light on details and Colibri currently lacks any UI to do this. However, it's easy enough.
Step 0: Download SQL Lite Database Browser
Step 1: Launch SQL Lite Database Browser
Step 2: Open Colibri's Filesystem database in %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Colibri\
Step 3: Browse to the folder table
Step 4: Add your own custom folder path to a new row in the folder table
Step 5: When you are done, you should see your new folder path
Step 6: Improve Colibri's Performance by navigating to the Settings and selecting Store user-defined items in database
Step 7: Quit and Relaunch Colibri.