Access to computers more than a decade, has gone through various stages of torment, in recent years began to calm down, not the pursuit of interface and application fancy, just focus on the efficiency of work, and gradually develop its own set of operating practices, feeling good, special The author share. The title borrows a bit, "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", are mostly extracted from these tips and make the best use of good software niche software two stations, special thanks to those of extraordinary share.
This article mainly with my own application, respectively, to start the discussion, look, mouse, clipboard management, shortcuts, file management, editing writing, these Windows command line is the most common and also the most tedious and most tedious operation, see look at how to combine special software and habits, they become efficient and vivid, and behind each one will offer some of my experience to add.
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We turn on the computer every day you start Windows, and mainly in the inside of the application software to deal with. Most systems may be installed dozens of software, commonly used but more than a dozen, every day struggling to find several commonly used software that name already memorized the list of programs in the ocean and mountains in the desktop icon, whether that hard? I have tried a variety of desktop layout or icon classification software, has created over four borders toolbar icons are crowded, and found both get out of trouble. All the tools or programs icon-based, requires my brain to make a "name software -> Software icon -> Icon Position" Thoughts and Choices, and finally with a mouse click to start. These tools and programs can only make the thinking and the selection process easier. But do we really need an icon with the mouse do? More and more rich interface lets a lot of people are suddenly a large column high-performance Windows habits of people in one of the N: Start articles slightly alive forgotten fact, the DOS command line is a very efficient way to start, albeit in a graphical operating system , we can still give up a menu icon or packaging, the direct use of the name to start the software.
No special tools, Windows born former support this feature: the shortcut to the most commonly used software are thrown into a folder, the path to this directory is appended to the PATH environment variable. To start which software, press Win + R to open the Run fast field, enter the shortcut name Enter on the line. In order to facilitate memory, software shortcut name as much as possible into short English abbreviation, Internet Explorer called IE, Firefox called FF, called Zombies PVZ ...... For a long name for the shortcut, enter two the next start alphabetic keyboard up and down after use and then select Enter. Compared icon to start the way, the brain needs only memory, do not need to associate with the icon retrieval, plus omitted mouse click, can not leave the keyboard with both hands, several times higher efficiency.
After a period of customary shortcuts on the desktop can be removed to free up space like me can use as a temporary directory.
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Information and data does not exist the C drive, which is Windows for many years truths. "My Documents" can be redirected to the "D: MyDocs" directory, the desktop will be redirected to the "D: MydocsDesktop" directory, catalog and special place to put a shortcut on the desktop. Bahrain what the new software, to generate a change of desktop icons and easy to remember name dragged into this directory. As green software, the software must be installed again after those reinstall the system remains in a fixed position, the contents of this directory later shortcuts no longer basic maintenance.