Time is of the essence when you run your own business, so to save time you can run Cygwin programs directly from the cmd.exe -- the command prompt -- utility.

Dear Lifehacker, I'm familiar with the Unix command line on Linux and OS X, but I've recently switched to Windows and the Command Prompt (cmd.exe) feels, well, kind of crappy. How can I make it a ...

The command prompt command works fine if you manually set the OBJ owner to Photoshop. Otherwise, it always opens that Open With Program dialog. Is this really how Windows deals with files?

In addition to running commands at the prompt, you’re able to control and customize the command window itself. You can resize the window horizontally as wide as you want.