If you hold down shift while you double-click a folder or drive, then you will bring up an explorer window on it rather than the normal icon view. Run groups of applications at once Use batch files to run a group of applications at once, for example your internet applications, using the start command. You can choose to start each of them maximised or minimised etc.
Control is returned to the batch file before each application has finished loading.
Don't use menus Keyboard shortcuts are much faster. Use Windows Explorer view. The default is Open view. The default is the desktop. The default is the root.