The command prompt is making a comeback ie(PowerShell). There are some things that can be done faster using the command prompt than clicking away. Why take your hand off the keyboard just for a few clicks? This becomes even more true when you learn keyboard shortcuts.
Not to mention the fact that you can now automate the process.

Sarith Pallewela, on 19 January 2006 - 01:59 PM, said:

Sarith Pallewela, on 19 January 2006 - 01:59 PM, said:

Just because something might not be useful to you personally does not mean it is not useful to someone else. Please consider that we don’t all travel along the same route.

I work processing a large number of files that must sometimes be moved or copied to various different directories across different systems and even some that need to be uploaded to different websites, then copied, moved or deleted.

When you have to do this x number of times for x number of files and each depending on x factors, you can begin to appreciate writing BATCH files to automate the whole thing. If part of the process is uploading to a website, hey, opening up the right website at the right moment and PAUSING the batch process until you upload the file and then continue is a BIG BIG help!

This is an excellent tip, even if your computer-use experience is not (and probably will never be) advanced enough to understand how it may be used. The Command Line era is NOT “way gone”, it has moved ahead, "way" beyond *your* comprehension, that’s all.

Cheers!

I love the Batch file work but i played around with your instructions to set Google to launch as a second browser with minor substitutions and thought you might want to add to the text to let readers know this can also be applied to other programs or atleast Chrome on Win XP. My response to the clicker is sometimes you can add just an extra bit of security to your computer by hiding folders or taskbars, eliminating short cuts, creating a slave account for regular use, adding passwords to all and tucking away the administrator for necessary functions because this is only a few that i employ with someone when Screen Sharing using Remote Desktop, Remote Assistance, etc. The point for me is to appreciate the sophisticated application or endless abilities that an engineer designed from the inside rather than limiting yourself to hitting buttons on the outside and my experience is limited but if i keep finding simplistic tutorials like this one then i suppose my knowledge will be doubled in no time. Thanks for the post.

An easier process would be to add the path C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\ to your environment variables