Re: Clicking on 2nd file opens second copy of running application - How Come ?

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From: Mike Bryan (mbryan_at_magma.ca)
Date: 03/16/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:17:39 -0500

Thanks- Yes, I know that would work----- but sometimes it's more
convenient when navigating around to just double-click on a file and have
the application it is mapped to simply open it, if that application is
already running. I thought Windows was smart enough to know when an
application did NOT need to be opened (again) - because it was already
running !. But then, I am a Mac man and this Windows stuff baffles me. My
Mac would never open a second copy of an app in these circumstances.....

"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:S9q5c.16671$Cb.338670@attbi_s51...
> Mike;
>
> Open the jpeg's from within your application, not by double
> clicking a particular file.
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
> Wes
>
> In news:Or83aprCEHA.464@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
> Mike Bryan <mbryan@magma.ca> hunted and pecked:
> > Can anyone out their tell me why my Win XP Home Edition is opening a
> > SECOND and THIRD and FOURTH copy of a running application every time
> > I click on files that are already supposed to be mapped to be opened
> > with the running APP ?
> >
> > I've told Windows to open all .jpg files with Corel PhotoPaint. Fine
> > for the first file. But when I click on second and third jpg files,
> > each file summons Windows to open the application again and again.
> >
> > How do I get it to just open in the first copy of the App ?
> >
> >
> > - Mike Bryan, mbryan@magma.ca

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