Re: Opening new files in the same program window

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Why, it worked fine before I re-installed Windows. In fact, it's worked the
right way ever since Windows 95, up to Windows XP on one system, all with
the same software (with updates, of course). It's just on this one machine
with this one re-install of the operating system where is no longer works.
What would the 3rd party software have to do with that changing?

Also, I just looked and "Windows in Taskbar" is already checked in Word,
which is one of the programs where this problem is happening. For every Word
document that is open, there is a separate instance of Word running.

"Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Oe2HTs8kGHA.5108@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To turn on Single Document Interface (SDI) in Microsoft Office 2003
applications Tools|Options|View and check "Windows in Taskbar". In either
case there is only one instance application's executable running. Task
Manager|Processes will confirm this.

For the others you'll need to get in touch with the application developer.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Ripper" wrote:
| Trying again, hoping my subject title change will attract an answer this
| time......
|
| Here's my situation.
|
| Recent hard drive failure.
| Time to upgrade anyway.
| Re-installed Win2K from the same disk as before.
| Did all the same security updates as before.
| SP 4 installed as before.
| .NET 2.0 installed as before.
| Office XP Pro (some Office 2003 updates) installed as before.
| Everything is identical to the old hard drive with the exception of the
| drive itself.
| Same system, same motherboard, same processor, same memory chips, same
| periferals and other hardware.
|
| Here's the problem:
|
| Double-clicking on a .jpg file, for example, opens my image editor with
the
| file ready for editing. Previously, double-clicking on a second .jpg
file
| would open the new file in the same instance of my image editor. Since
the
| re-install, it opens a new instance of the program for each new image
opened
| in this fashion (before anyone asks, it is not only my image editor that
is
| now doing this, it is every program, including all of my Office
programs,
| Winzip, Adobe Reader, etc.....) All used to open the new file in the
same
| instance (except FrontPage which opens new pages depending on whether or
not
| they were in the same web that was already opened).
|
| Any ideas would be greatly appreciated as this is driving me insane.
I've
| already tried changing the settings in the Folder Options tab. No
| difference.
|
| Thanks in advance.
| Ripper
|
|
|




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