"Feldspar" <lordwalsingham@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:22CD8390-CC22-4676-AC96-7409CD7CD828@xxxxxx
Quote:
> 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
As far as I understand it, there was extensive analysis done that showed
that the new behavior is an improvement. You may disagree: the team in
question was solving a performance problem.
Quote:
> 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.
That chunker-chunker is perceived to be a bad experience. Your system is a
lot nicer than others that would struggle further with this scenario.
Quote:
> 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.
This can be solved by the application in question using a more modern method
of shell integration.
If your suggestion is that Explorer should use the old "launch N copies of
this application and let the system become seriously non-responsive and/or
tank" solution, that's not going to be possible to achieve without someone
reverting this change. You could certainly take that up with actual Product
Support, but: there are teams assigned to make sure Windows doesn't
chunker-chunker, and this was one of the solutions found to be necessary.
--
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See
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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