1. A method of launching a selected application on a computer, the method comprising the steps of: accessing a registry to determine which applications are installed and where each application is installed; creating a hypertext markup language (HTML) file specifying the applications that are installed; displaying the HTML file in a browser so that a user can select any one of the applications that is installed as a selected application to launch; and if the user selects an application as the selected application, determining the location of the selected application from tags in the HTML file and launching the selected application without allowing the browser to navigate to the application.