I must disagree with majora. The GUI does NOT make things "so much easier to get stuff done"

For example - I find it much easier to hit WindowsKey+R and type mspaint or notepad or winword or excel.
Especially using WinNT (which I'm forced to use here), because the Start Menu dies so often.

Also - there are often times when the GUI just doesn't cut it (for example, opening up a program such as Microsoft Access with startup parameters)
There's no way you can specify a version, workgroup, username, password, macro to run, sharing mode, decompile mode etc in Access without using command line arguments.

Using the command line to delete and rename files also generally gets around any file locks.


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