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Anonymous
>>493734 Tab completion, dude. Also, if you've got your %PATH% set right, you just type the name of the program. Or the name of the thing you want a program to pop up and open.
("?-r, 'no', ?, enter", for example, will get you a notepad. Without having to look at anything, for anything, make any kind of decision, or take hands off the keyboard. You just bung the string in, and out it pops.)
Also, if you run more than /one/ program, you care about the z-order. Or that terminal window you were keeping near that clump browser windows just gets dumped on top of the whole browser. When you try such exotic things as keeping a browser, a notepad, /and/ a terminal together (and, who knows, maybe a Word and a PDF or two), you'd be better-off opening your desktop in explorer (and if you're going to do that, you might as well just Run the program you were wanting in the first place).
Rather than have to change my life by cutting out 'unnecessary' programs, I just add more RAM. Uptime of several months, because Windows doesn't crash anymore. Loads of programs open, because hell, RAM is cheap, and the computer should be doing work on my behalf, not the other way round. I shouldn't have to care about what I can and can't leave open; I should just be able to forget about it and let it sink to the bottom.
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