Re: Opening new files in the same program window
- From: "Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:49:45 -0600
There is no global operating system setting that controls this behavior. As
you now know it is an application specific setting for office products. In
the end you'll need to get in touch with the application vendor.
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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"Ripper" wrote:
| But they all did exactly what they were supposed to do previous to this
| re-install of the operating system. The new operating system was the only
| change to the system.
| >
| > | Also, I just looked and "Windows in Taskbar" is already checked in
| Word,
| > * You'll want to uncheck it.
| Did that, now it works properly only 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.
| > * You of course verified this with Task Manager|Processes
|
| No, I did not, but I had several Word processes open on the taskbar. Now
it
| is showing only once, regardless of how many files I open (which is the
way
| it used to work before I re-installed Windows 2000. I changed NOTHING in
| Word when I re-installed it).
|
| Once again, ALL of my programs where double-clicking on a file opens that
| program, used to work the right way (it might not be considered the right
| way, but it's the way I wanted it and the way it always worked before). It
| is only since the re-install of Windows 2000 SP-4 that I am having this
| issue. I have another system running the same OS and the same software and
| that system reacts the way this system used to react.
|
| The only difference is this system has had a new install of Windows 2000
SP4
| (same system updates and software versions as the other backup system and
| also the same as before the hard drive melted).
|
| I could understand if it were since I moved from Windows 98 to Windows
2000,
| but it is not. For nearly 5 years, I have been running Windows 2000 and my
| system has ALWAYS worked that way until about a month ago when I had to
| re-install due to a hard drive failure. I replaced the hard drive with an
| identical drive (it was still under warranty from the manufacturer) so
| that's not it either (I've had different hard drives react differently to
| system updates or re-installs). I re-installed from scratch just because
it
| was due anyway. I started with a clean slate. No add-ons, nothing but the
| Service Packs and critical updates, not even driver updates yet, and the
| problem was already evident. Even after completely updating everything,
| including Office XP and 2003 components, Windows and Office updates from
the
| Microsoft update site and then updating all of the drivers and 3rd party
| software, back to exactly where the system was before the hard drive
failed,
| it still had this problem.
|
| I cannot believe that EVERY piece of 3rd party software I have installed
| could suddenly go bad or not respond like it used to, all at the same
time,
| when the only change to the entire system was Windows was re-installed. I
| have looked at all of the software for some setting that says "open new
| files in the same window" or something like that, but I cannot find any
such
| setting in any of them. Besides, I never needed that setting before.
.
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