# How many windows do you have open on your PC? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 12, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-windows-do-you-have-open-on-your-pc/294190 "2005-03-12T13:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-windows-do-you-have-open-on-your-pc/294190/21 "2005-03-15T04:38:55Z")
At the moment, one Firefox window with 6 SDMB tabs. When i’m working: If i’m doing research and/or writing: 1 Firefox window (with multiple tabs) for the Dope; 1 Firefox window (with multiple tabs) for research; 1 MS Word window; and one Adobe Acrobat Pro window. If i’m working on web pages for a small job that i’m doing: 1 Firefox window (with multiple tabs) for the Dope; 1 Firefox window for the online version of the webpage and for any research i need to do; one Dreamweaver window; one Photoshop window for resizing pictures and doing other graphical stuff; and one Windows Explorer window so i can see the website files on my computer. ---
**Author:** ![Boldface\_Type](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@Boldface\_Type](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boldface_Type)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-windows-do-you-have-open-on-your-pc/294190/22 "2005-03-15T16:17:33Z")
- Outlook - Outlook newsreader - Windows explorer x2 - Word x1 - Excel x1 - SAS x1 - IE x3 - Labview x1 That’s typical, though sometimes there’ll also be Coreldraw, and a few other image editing packages. ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-windows-do-you-have-open-on-your-pc/294190/23 "2005-03-15T16:49:20Z")
Hmm… One Outlook 3 Internet Explorers 2 separate instances of Matlab 2 Matlab script editors 5 Windows Explorer 4 Notepads 3 Microsoft Access windows 2 telnet windows Huh. Kind of a slow day for me. ---
**Author:** ![StarsApart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@StarsApart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarsApart)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-windows-do-you-have-open-on-your-pc/294190/24 "2005-03-15T17:15:52Z")
I generally have WordPad open, two browser windows, and then as many chat windows as people I’m chatting with. On the Straight Dope sometimes I go through and open every thread that looks interesting in a new window, since I’ve never gotten used to tabbed browsing, but they never stay open for long. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-windows-do-you-have-open-on-your-pc/294190.md?page=1)