i just thought this up, and did it, i'm sure i'm not the first person to do it but i think it's cool and very useful, at least to me.
ok, make a directory, preferably on a data partition where you wont lose it if you reinstall windows, i called mine f:\bin. now, take all your programs that you usually run, and put shortcuts to them in there, shorten up the names, etc (i.e. "Adobe Photoshop 6.0" > "photoshop" or even "ps"), then add that dir to your path. in win2k/xp, it's a environment variable, go to system control panel and go to "advanced" tab, click environment variables, and follow the syntax there. mine reads:
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;f:\bin
notice the f:\bin i added at the end.
i dont really remember how to do it in win9x but i'm sure someone can chime in with that. (win.ini or system.ini maybe?)
now, all you have to do to run all your favorite stuff is to just hit windowskey+R (bring up the run box) and type in the name of the shortcut you made and hit enter. after you use them, the next time you do the same thing, you can just type the first few letters then hit down and enter cus it will be in the run box's history/memory/whatever ya wanna call it.
i like it.
(edit to give it thumbs up)
ok, make a directory, preferably on a data partition where you wont lose it if you reinstall windows, i called mine f:\bin. now, take all your programs that you usually run, and put shortcuts to them in there, shorten up the names, etc (i.e. "Adobe Photoshop 6.0" > "photoshop" or even "ps"), then add that dir to your path. in win2k/xp, it's a environment variable, go to system control panel and go to "advanced" tab, click environment variables, and follow the syntax there. mine reads:
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;f:\bin
notice the f:\bin i added at the end.
i dont really remember how to do it in win9x but i'm sure someone can chime in with that. (win.ini or system.ini maybe?)
now, all you have to do to run all your favorite stuff is to just hit windowskey+R (bring up the run box) and type in the name of the shortcut you made and hit enter. after you use them, the next time you do the same thing, you can just type the first few letters then hit down and enter cus it will be in the run box's history/memory/whatever ya wanna call it.
i like it.
(edit to give it thumbs up
)
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