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Likewise, ive just realised that I dont make effective use of the desktop on windows but when you mention win+d to get to a screen worth of cherry picked shortc
by CraigJPerry 13y ago
Likewise, ive just realised that I dont make effective use of the desktop on windows but when you mention win+d to get to a screen worth of cherry picked shortcuts, it makes sense.
I never really put anything on my desktop, I do use the win7 taskbar a lot but I reckon ill start using the desktop too.
EDIT: meant to add for piping in windows, someone showed me something similarly useful, if you drag a bunch of selected files onto a program icon, the program can often make use of those files. E.g. drag some files onto the outlook icon and it'll compose a new email with them attached.
- elohesra 13y agoWith regards to piping, yes this can sometimes be true. It's very dependent on the actual program. Programs on windows take a string array as the argument to their main function, so if the program is written in such a way that it iterates across every element of the string array argument and then does something with them, then this'd work. Most of the Microsoft programs behave sensibly with this, and execute an Open command against each of the files dragged onto them, but this isn't guaranteed to be true. I'd still like a nicer, general purpose way of manipulating multiple files in Windows. That does seem to be one place where it's definitely lacking, but it could just be that I don't know how to do it.