Starting A Program From Windows Explorer - Toshiba Tecra M2V Series User Manual

The Accessories menu is displayed.
3 Click the program, in this example, Wordpad.
Wordpad opens.
To close the program, click the Close button in the
upper-right corner of the program's window.
Starting a program from Windows
If a program is not listed in the Programs menu, you can start
it from Windows
your computer's contents as a hierarchy or "tree." You can
easily see the content of each drive and folder on your
computer. To use this method, you should know the file name
and location of the program's executable file (this file ends
with .exe).
This example opens Wordpad using its file name,
wordpad.exe.
1 Click Start, then point to All Programs.
2 Click Accessories.
3 Click Windows Explorer.
4 Double-click My Computer.
5 In the left part of the window, under the C: icon, double-
click the folder containing the program, in this case
Program Files.
The files are hidden, which means they are system files that
are not ordinarily displayed. Click "Show the contents of this
folder" to see the files.
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folder on the right side of the window. The left side of the
window shows all the folders contained within the Program
Files folder.
6 In the left part of the window, click Windows NT.
Explorer. Windows
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Explorer shows the contents of the Program Files
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