Desktop Assistant is a useful and reliable appplication that wlll help you find programs searching them only by their names and view all the started applications in the Windows Explorer Start Menu.

As you can see the main window of the "Desktop Assistant" application consists of two parts: the bottom part is combobox edit control where you can enter parts of words with delimiting by SPACE char and the upper part is a list view which shows only subset of applications in Windows Explorer Start Menu. This subset is filtered by words you have entered in combobox edit control.