If you already have an application open on your desktop and you’d like to open another instance of the same application, you need not go through your Start menu.

Simply press down Shift key and click on the program icon in the taskbar.

Alternatively, simply move your cursor to the applications taskbar icon and click on the third middle mouse button.

That’s it!

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