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C H A P T E R 2
MAKING YOUR PROGRAMS RUN
SMOOTH
You know the main reason you use your computer is to run
programs; that’s the whole raison d’etre (reason for being for
you non-French speaking hicks) of Windows. Without pro-
grams, Windows would just be a fancy desktop.
So that you can get to work as fast as possible and have
handy your most important programs, such as your word pro-
cessing program, your spreadsheet program, whatever you
use all the time, you can make some changes to Windows
itself. Think of it a