When you open a program on your computer by double-clicking its icon, you are activating that program's .exe file and, thus, launching the program. When you launch PowerPoint, for example, you're ...
If you use the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system on the computers at your business and need to run Linux or BSD programs on them, you can use Cygwin, a Linux-like environment for Windows computers.
All programs in Windows can be launched by name from the Run command line. You can run an .EXE, .COM, .BAT or .CMD program by entering its full name and path, or Browse the folder hierarchy to find it ...