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Click a program’s icon on the taskbar.

Double-click an application’s program-file icon in the This PC
Local Disk (C:) Program Files [application] folder, or
highlight the application’s icon and then press Enter.

Press a key combination you’ve assigned to be the program’s
shortcut.

Press +R, type the program file’s name in the Open text box,
and then press Enter.

Let Windows launch the program for you, either at startup
(“The Diary of Windows Crashes”) or at a time you’ve specified
(see Task Scheduler, “Windows Security”).

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,” then 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 programs present you with a new, blank,

untitled document. Some, like 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 don’t open any
window at all when launched. The appearance of tool palettes is the only
evidence you’ve even opened a program.

The Two Kinds of Apps

As you may recall with migraine flashbacks, Windows 8 was two operating

systems in one. And it ran two different kinds of programs:

Desktop apps. These are the standard Windows programs.

Photoshop, Quicken, iTunes, and 4 million others. They have