I have been neglecting my Windows friends. It's not personal. Just because I don't like your OS doesn't mean I don't like you... And certainly I have nothing to add that you already don't know about. I have to say that I DO like your OS more than Mac. But anyway, I'll save irritating people for later.
In Linux I love aliases for console work. And for the graphical desktop, shortcuts in the /usr/bin which work with the launcher. For example a thunderbird link named tb allows me to type tb in the launcher and voila thunderbird.
Of course the nix launchers are pretty good. Apps can typically be launched after entering two or three letters. And Windows is kind of getting better.
It turns out the shortcut trick works in Windows as well. Simply make a shortcut in your user directory. I know in some versions of Dohs you will need to put it in a more global directory, sadly I don't recall which one. Anyway, with your shortcut(s) in place just fire up the run dialog and enter the name of your shortcut. For example a shortcut to Visual Studio named vs.lnk would allow you to enter vs into a run dialog to launch it.
For both the Nix trick or the Dohs trick, you could make links to shell scripts or .bat files, or directories, etc.
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