Well, I have a friend that is ALWAYS complaining about how many programs I have opened at the same time. Like 15 items in the start menu, and 20 tabs in Firefox... lolz, that's my way of using a computer.

So here, I have a screenshot, and I ask you: Is this nighmare?

Lol, well maybe a nightmare could be a bad expression. But do you hate to have that many programs open?

Personally I just think I should close something, but I don't do it... I can live with it - well, in some hours.

I dont mind having lots of programs open as long as they dont "group up". Then i have to guess what window it is from the menu, the one i want to see/use. I dont like things that are time consuming. Plus my computer is pretty crappy, so it wont be able to handle many programs opened at the same time.

that's extreme multi-tasking you have there. hope it's not making your PC screech to a crawl. as for me, i keep the number of applications running at the minimum as much as i can. not a nightmare for me though even if have more than 10 applications running, and up to 15 firefox tabs open. i'm comfortable either way.

Wow! You sure have a lot open! I wouldn't consider that a nightmare. Anyway, the computers that I am usually on couldn't handle having that many open at once. I do, however, usually keep about 10 programs open at once (slows down my computer and others that I use A LOT). Also, I normally have about 2-5 Firefox tabs open.

I have no idea how you could be using all of those programs at once..Limewire, MsPaint, Firefox, IE, Winzip, and Word? I think you should start working on one thing at a time I'd call that a nightmare if it were on my computer, I'd save and close whatever I wasn't actually working on, even though my computer could support it

Well, it's frontpage... not word. I was making a website, with Photoshop and Paint, when surfing on trap17. And when I am on forums, I always open in new and new and new tabs, so I need two windows to handle everything

Then I thought I could download some music since I always listened on the same one... So I opened LimeWire and Ares (the A) to download, and started to browse a good download site, but it only work in Internet Explorer. And of course, they have to have .zip or .rar downloads, so I had to open WinZip too. The sword is a game called runescape... A friend on MSN said that I had to log on to meet him ingame... And yeah that's why I had so many windows open. now I only have 6 + ares and limewire which are also running in the background.

Having loads of programs open isn't that big a deal. My friends always complain about that to me aswell. I agree, I can't live without having loads of programs open

My computer is pretty good, it doesn't really slow down hugely at all.

I really dont like having many programs open, just because its just bothersome for me, i like to have max 5 things on my start menu bar, and about 5-7 tabs on Firefox, although i use a lot more programs than 5 each time, but like AIM, MSN, LimeWire, or Winamp amont others can be configured so they dont appear on the Start menu bar.

I use alot of programs at once, generally when working i have Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Imageready, Premiere Pro, Word, Firefox, Winamp, Total Commander, and Yahoo! Msgr open at once. I use them all, though i do find it irritating to have so many tabs open on the bottom. I love the tab in window approach in firefox, i just wish that M$ Word had it as well, as i generally need to have 5 or 6 documents open, if there was an option to have the tabs across the top of the page, life would be a LOT easier. But more than 10 programs, i think is overdoing it.