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I posted this yesterday through the website, but I can't find it there now,
so I'm using Outlook Express, like I used to.....
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
so I'm using Outlook Express, like I used to.....
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