Computer trivia

Quick Launch is the small list of applications you find just beside the start button, which contains ‘Show Desktop’, ‘Internet Explorer’ and ‘Windows Media Player’ by default. These can be changed very easily and there is no limit on the number of applications that can be added to the quick launch. As the name suggests application shortcuts are place in the quick launch to allow quick access to the corresponding applications.

There is a way to launch the quick launch applications even quicker! I mean a key board shortcut.

Number the applications in the quick launch starting from the left. So, if Firefox is the leftmost entry of our quick launch then Firefox will receive the number 1. The next application will receive the number 2 and so on..

Now to launch any application, press ‘Win + number’, where ‘Win’ is the Windows button (found between Ctrl and Alt keys) and number is the number assigned above.

Thus to open Firefox in the above example you would press ‘Win + 1′. Simple!

However only 9 applications can be opened this way and the 10th one can’t be opened as it will be taken as Application 1 and Application 0.

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