Is this even possible?

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kisforkomputer

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Hi everyone,

Is there a way (keep in mind, I have your basic "I'm a millenial" knowledge of computers, but nothing exotic) I can make a shortcut that will allow me to open 5 pdfs, 2 Excel documents, 3 webpages, and a .exe (give or take) by clicking on one link/shortcut/what-have-you (i.e. without having to open them all individually)? I need them for work, but opening them every morning takes a solid 5 minutes and I am (or would like to be) all about the efficiency :). My computer runs Windows 8.1, in case that's relevant.

Thanks in advance for your help!
 
An SSD would give you a substantial speed-up. Whether it's worth the additional cost depends on your work.

How much RAM do you have? Most of the time system waiting/hanging between a lot of tasks is delayed by the mechanical hard drive, but the issue can be compounded if it's trying to swap data from RAM into the page file at the same time.
 
Thanks for the response, but I should have been a little more specific. It's not slow because my computer slows down when I try to open so many programs; it's just slow because I have to double-click on 10 different shortcuts and open 5 bookmarks in my browser. I've put all the files in one folder so they're easy to find, but I still have this FEELING that it could be more efficient.

Basically what I want is just one shortcut I can create and then click on that will launch everything I need all at once :).
 
Oh, it sounded like you already had the launcher but it was slow.

You could create something like a .bat file to launch all of your applications.
 
Create a file on your desktop called <whatever you want>.bat.

Open that in a text editor and type this for each file you want to open:

start <filename>

Make sure each one is on a separate line. Don't include the <>.
Make sure you either give the full path to the file (eg. C:\User\user\Documents\file.pdf), or a relative path from the desktop.
If you aren't sure what that is, just stick with the full path. You can find the full by right-clicking the file and selecting "properties". It'll show next to the "Location" label.

For the webpages, create desktop shortcuts to them first, and then just treat them the same as regular files.

If you have trouble, post the file you tried to create and we can fix it for you.
 
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