>>On any recent Windows you just hit the Windows key and type the first letters of the program you like to use. Those with high usage are one-click without typing, because the OS listed them. Works like a charm.
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>With Launchy I had that in 2008.
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>>Some macro keys. And then I have a bunch of keyboard short cuts, but they all call VFP, but different environments for different projects [branches of ...] / VFP versions.
>>The only stuff I run on command line is git and if there is a need for odd repairs. What is very very rare. Mostly other persons computers ...
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>I did have to run a lot more cmd.exe than I do terminal window in linux. In the latter case, I mostly drag-n-drop filenames from Strawberry (the music player) that I want to remove from disk, because the option doesn't exist in the app itself (does in QMMP, but it's written in a somewhat dirty manner and so experiences effect of software rot), or when I want to run a python script of mine with console output - so that I don't have to open its log later, I see it all onscreen as it happens.
>Under Windows, I often had to use cmd.exe to do simple file manipulation, because the File Expolorer (nee Windows Explorer, though it was since forever unable to explore either) never mastered the art of having two opposite windows for that - you had to drag'n'drop between windows, first moving them around to display both the source and target locations with enough screen space to select files in source and have a drop area in target, and then just hope it won't automatically scroll or lose the mouse-down condition over a bad connection. Likewise for ftp to clients, whereby their IT police would disable it... in Explorer, completely forgetting the cmd.exe, where it worked :).

I never found this a problem. In the days of yore under CP/M or DOS my NC was tree / folder anyway. The second windows is not farther away then a different folder in NC. Then there was the short editor and so on, but there is no need for that since 1995. If there is a real need to do file manipulation more tricky then the explorer exposes, my knife could even be VFP. (Normaly I use the bash that comes with git)
Mouse is reliable since a can not remember, And even opening a second window is in most cases useless - one can drop / paste to the tree. I use this only if there are many things to move to a target. Normally creating a filter etc to do the job is more work then selecting - moving with the mouse. And rather useless, since most of that will be one time jobs.