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Depends on context even; sometimes I doubleclick on the document that will open the app, often done with assemblies and ILSpy.
Often used tools get their own shortcut (you can set one in the properties of the icon).
VS and SQL management studio from the taskbar, or using the start-menu to select a solution. Browser is already started, is in the startup folder; if the PC is on, chances are I need the browser anyway.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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you can run non native applications using win+r. all you need is to add the path to the exe to the environment variable "Path" (either to the user or system, depending if you need it on other users as well or not).
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Real magic.[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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"More magic", to be more specific.
This is gold.
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Telepathy, I think. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Spotlight generally
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Rage wrote: Charms bar / Tiles ?
Are there Up, Down, Strange, Bottom and Top bars / tiles as well? 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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windows key + start writing the name of the application... then select it from the menu or press return.
windows 7 here...
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Pinned items on the task bar and RocketDock for the most used items and the start menu for others.
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Most are pinned in the Start Menu (Windows 7) and one or two (utilities) in the taskbar.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Rage wrote: I mainly open the start menu and type the name of the app in the search field, this is the quickest I have found.
Same here, except that with Windows 10 I don't even have to open the start menu.
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Windows:
Really commonly used go on the taskbar.
Ones used a few times a week get pinned to the start menu.
Others that I use end up in the "recently used apps list".
For everything else, either type the name or select them from their menu.
OSX:
Launchpad for almost everything
Type the name when I can't be bothered clicking the icon.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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In Windows 7 and higher, mostly Taskbar after application has been pinned.
If not already pinned then via third-party application, Launchy, which is more efficient than using Charms or Start. Launchy might start either the application or invoke it via a document shortcut I've pre-mapped.
If not already mapped via the above, then Charms or Start.
Since Windows 7 I've hardly bothered with desktop shortcuts and in fact I typically hide them all.
Kevin
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Actually, I found it best not to have an icon or anything at all that a user may somehow find. Experience has shown that if they can't find it they can't screw things up nearly as badly.
Try it - you'll like it.
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Pinned somewhere, start menu or task bar, I hate a cluttered desktop.
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(Win 7)
Quick launch bar or start menu depending on how frequently I expect to use it.
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I navigate to the target directory, and double click on the executable.
Sometimes, I will execute the application from a command prompt, to shake things up a bit.
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Rage wrote: Other ?
Trebuchet.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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For those I use regularly: make a folder of shortcuts to them and link that folder to a toolbar on the taskbar.
Works well since at least XP and works just as well on windows 10 and anything in between. Order them alphabetically and off you go.
Very practical, no desktop clutter.
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I still use the Quick Launch toolbar. There is n faster way to launch an app than a single click
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I got a new computer yesterday that came with Windows 7. As soon as I activated it I downloaded the media creation tool and upgraded to Windows 10. Very easy, no problems. Windows 10 looks great so far.
Windows 7 comes with IE8 and the page to download the upgrade tool does not load in IE8 so I actually had to install chrome first. That does seem weird. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Isn't obtaining Chrome what IE8 was designed for?
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