welcome back to the adventure this is Adam and today we're working with the
program list in the DAWs show as we discussed in a previous video the
program list is the bottom third section of the screen titled name in this
section we have a few available programs set up by default command prompt edit
QBasic and disk utilities which is a group that has these items in it to
access one of the programs in the list we can either double click on it with
the mouse or highlight program using the keyboard and press Enter
when we exit the program it goes back to the dog show
so first we'll need to enable the task swapper up in options click on options
click on an April task swapper when the feature is enabled there'll be the
little dot next to enable task swapper so for demonstration purposes we'll open
the editor and put some simple text on the screen up here just so we can tell
the difference between the two programs when we start to swap them so to return
to the boss shell from here we can press control escape now we can choose another
program I'm going to open Q basic and we can title the file basic and put in some
simple text to avoid confusion
so to switch between qbasic and edit we can press the Alt + tab key together
like in modern windows systems you can press alt tab to switch between programs
there's two basic there's the da shell and there's the editor it can cycle
through the different programs in a round robin fashion or if you continue
holding the Alt key it will leave this window up telling you what program it's
going to open and you can press the tab key to cycle through the names of the
open programs you can also add a program to the list of active programs over here
on the right by highlighting in the program in the list and pressing shift
enter
so we've now added ms back up to that list of active programs now when the
program list is selected the file menu shows different options new adds a new
program or program group to the list open starts the highlighted program or
expands the program group copy makes a copy of the program or group delete will
remove a program from the group or program list properties lets you change
details about the list entry like the title or startup commands reorder
changes the order the programs and groups are displayed in the list say I
want to add a new program to the program list I will select new and choose
program at the prompt I'm going to title this memory check
for the command we will type mem /c /p and then click OK
now memory check is on the program list I can double click on memory check to
run it so this is similar to what we would do with the mem command we're
looking at the memory used by open programs and we can press a key to have
it display the rest of the page here and then we can press any key to return to
da shell if I want to later change something about memory check like the
parameter if I can click on the file menu and go to properties when it's
selected this dialog box allows me to change anything that was said when I was
adding the program to the list along with a number of other things like if I
would like it to wait for the prompt to return to the da shell after the program
is executed now I would like to add a new program group so we'll go to main
and we will go to new and this time we will select program group and I'm going
to call it system tool
I can add a password to the group but in this case I'm going to skip that for
right now now that the group is created I can move memory check into that so it
can go to disk utilities highlight memory check go to copy up here in the
file menu back to system tools and then f2 is going to paste that here so I'm
going to go back to disk utilities and remove memory check from here very good
so two more items I want to add here to system tools real quick it is a program
item
okay
okay so now I have these two items here I can open up the config tsa's file and
switch back to the DAF shell and then I can open up the autoexec.bat file and I
should be able to switch between those two yeah autoexec.bat and configs is is
its own item here on the list and there we go so I'm going to exit this tool
here now I have quick access to a few tools that I use quite often that
concludes our look at the program list thanks for stopping by
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