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Sometimes I hold down the Start and R keys and quickly type wordpad or calculator. It works but then I realise I'm basically back to the MS-DOS prompt where I s
by gandalfian 7y ago
Sometimes I hold down the Start and R keys and quickly type wordpad or calculator. It works but then I realise I'm basically back to the MS-DOS prompt where I started 20 years ago. But minus the 4dos autocomplete enhancement.
- marcoseliziario 7y agojust press the window key and search for the program you want.
- gandalfian 7y agoThank you but that involves the mouse and more time. Using just the keyboard and ctrl R only takes half a second.
- marcoseliziario 7y agoIt doesn't involve the mouse at all. press windows key. start menu opens, search field is focused automatically. start typing, windows start doing an incremental search, heavily biased towards your most used programs in the list ordering, press enter if your choice is first on the list, or navigate with directional keys on the program. Your method only works if the program you want is on the PATH, and if you type the full name of the executable.