A few tricks to our friendly operating systems. Time saving shortcuts, and crash saving maneuvers.
Use ALT+TAB to switch between running apps in a popup window.
"Right-Click" the start button for a shortcut to your windows explorer, or file finder.
Drag and Drop. You can usually drag and drop anything. File types into their respective programs,
or even into the shortcut or .exe file will open those files. You can even drag image files into your web broswer for viewing.