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Shortcuts on the desktop ?
Shrotcuts in the taskbar ? Taskbar on side or on bottom ?
Charms bar / Tiles ?
Other ?
I mainly open the start menu and type the name of the app in the search field, this is the quickest I have found.
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Shortcuts on the taskbar at the bottom.
Been doing this for many, many, many years.
Each new iteration of Windows makes it harder to get them all on, and with Windows 7 (current work PC) there are some that cannot (as far as I can tell) be pinned there at all.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Try a vertical bar. You might get more on.
I'm pretty sure that literally anything should be pinnable in W7 (although there may be a limit on numbers, can't remember). What's not working?
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For a start there is a registry key which contains a list of words which cannot be in the filename of the thing you're trying to pin. You can, of course, hack the registry to get around that.
The problem I haven't yet got around is that I can no longer pin .bat to the taskbar, only .exe
I did manage to get them pinned by doing some complicated buggering about with shortcuts and renaming and such, but at reboot they were all gone again.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: The problem I haven't yet got around is that I can no longer pin .bat to the taskbar, only .exe
I've had some issues pinning Java applications that aren't .exe's as well.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I used to launch 'applications' like this[^], but that's probably not what you were thinking of. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I was actively waiting for the first to answer that. Congrats !
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But it's the truth. That's what I did in my first job adventure after school.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Depends on the application; Windows Explorer by pressing [Win]+[E], calc.exe by [Win]+[R], c, <enter>.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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.. and the non-native ones ?
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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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