Windows XP Pro The Missing Manual [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

6.1 Launching Programs

Windows XP lets you launch (open) programs in many different ways:

Choose a program's name from the StartAll Programs menu.

Click a program's icon on the Quick Launch toolbar
(Section 3.4.3).

Double-click an application's program-file icon in the My ComputerLocal Disk (C:)Program Filesapplication folder, or highlight the application's icon and then press Enter.

Press a key combination you've assigned to the
program's shortcut (Section 4.5).

Choose StartRun, type the program file's name in
the Open text box (Section 2.7.1), and then press Enter.

Let Windows launch the program for you, either at
startup (Section 2.6) or
at a time you've specified (see Section 16.6).

Open a document using any of the above techniques; its "parent" program opens automatically. For example, if you used Microsoft Word to write a file called Last Will and Testament.doc, double-clicking the document's icon launches Word and automatically opens that file.

What happens next depends on the program you're using (and whether or not you opened a document). Most present you with a new, blank, untitled document. Some, such as FileMaker and Microsoft PowerPoint, welcome you instead with a question: Do you want to open an existing document or create a new one? And a few oddball programs, like Adobe Photoshop, don't open any window at all when first launched. The appearance of tool palettes is the only evidence that you've even opened a program.