Seeing as you're opening up "N" instances of Notepad for your "N" documents,
perhaps there is a reason for the limitation of the current design. Not
everything needs to be able to open up infinity number of documents. For
example, Outlook will happily complain if you do multiselect open on even
fairly small numbers of files.
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See
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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"Perico de los Palotes" <ppalotes2004@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4X4hj.8037$5s.1392@xxxxxx
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> Thanks for your help. I would think that Microsoft has integrated its own
> Notepad with Windows. On the other, side, we are talking Microsoft
> here...
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> "zachd [MSFT]" <zachd@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:u%23fff4nUIHA.4584@xxxxxx Quote:
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>> Actually, it is a performance issue: the system doesn't let you bork
>> performance in that fashion. This would need to be addressed by the
>> application vendor (be it the maker of ... notepad or whomever) or
>> whatever by providing improved shell integration. It's a limitation on
>> the type of shell integration.
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>> --
>> Speaking for myself only.
>> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
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>> "Perico de los Palotes" <ppalotes2004@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:OVSgj.7207$cE4.2877@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> No, it is not a performance issue. It is not limited to photoshop
>>> either: the same thing happens with text files and notepad. The "open"
>>> context menu disappears if I select 16 files or more from within Windows
>>> Explorer. I hope there is some registry setting somewhere... Any ideas?
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>>> "zachd [MSFT]" <zachd@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:emrn%239aUIHA.5160@xxxxxx
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>>>> It can be a serious performance problem to hand large numbers of files
>>>> to applications that only implement old command line handlers. This is
>>>> simply a limitation of Photoshop's shell integration here, as far as
>>>> I'm aware.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Speaking for myself only.
>>>> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
>>>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>>>> rights.
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>>>> "Perico de los Palotes" <ppalotes2004@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>> news:Jiwgj.9162$cD5.3254@xxxxxx
>>>>> Hi, all. I hope I am in the correct group.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have Vista and Adobe Photoshop configured to open picture files. I
>>>>> am trying to open several files (jpg) at the same time, selecting them
>>>>> and using the File-Open option. Problem is, that option now only
>>>>> works with up to 15 files; it disappears with 16 or more. Same with
>>>>> the "Open With" option. This was not a problem with XP. Does anyone
>>>>> know if there is a setting to change this limit?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance for any help.
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