Feldspar

No. Basically. Did you read my post?

If I go to My Pictures and select more than fifteen files, BY WHATEVER
METHOD, CTRL+A or Click the first then click the last whilst holding shift,
or File - Edit - Select All, or hold down CTRL and click the pictures I want,
etc, then press enter, regardless of what app is open, regardless of the
appropriateness of that app, regardless of all the files being the same file
extension, regardless of what app you have set as the default handler for
that file type - I think that's covered everything but I'm sure someone will
still not get the picture - it gives me a print pictures window, asking how I
want to print my pictures and if I want to mess with them in any way,
basically an in-built Windows picture print handler. It doesn't even open or
go to an application, it doesn't pass those pictures to the application set
as the default, it doesn't pass them to any other relevant application, open
or not. I'm not sure how much clearer I can make it. This behaviour is
completely different to how Windows 3.0, 3.11, 95, NT, 98, ME, 2000 and XP
behaved and isn't an improvement therefore is a retrograde step, a bug or
just crap.

If you double-click or hit enter on a highlighted text file it opens your
default text editor.
If you double-click or hit enter on an HTML file it opens your default
browser.
If you double-click or hit enter on an image file it opens your default
image software.

I'm not sure why this is suddenly considered tricky??

The same used to be true for multiple file selects of the same extension,
regardless of number, and if you opened literally hundreds then your machine
would chunker-chunker until they were all open but it would still do it. I'm
not trying to open hundreds though, I'm trying to open ten or twenty or
thirty, which used to be possible. The images I am opening are only a few
hundred k each too and I've got 2GB of memory with plenty free.

You also used to be able to select multiple files, i.e. more than one, and
right-click choose 'Open With' to select what app you wanted, which for
someone like me who uses multiple apps to work on multiple files, is very
useful and time-saving.

It is also true that many apps don't have the ability to go File - Open -
multiple select from within their own file-open-browser window so this
problem would still be pervasive.

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