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lforbes · 12-07-2008

Quote: Originally Posted by zachd [MSFT]

To others: the definitive differential in the file opening experience is based upon the application's shell association type. Legacy handlers are limited to 15 selections by default for performance reasons. Applications using modern shell association methods will not have this limitation.

No, that's part of WYSIWII. What You Select Is What Is Invoked. The Open
With menu item only supports one selection, so it would be incorrect to make
it available.

OK: I had previously respected your difference of opinion by pointing out
that this behavior is by design for legacy style associations, and that if
you disagree with the current implementation, your best resource would be
actual Product Support where you could attempt to garner support for an
update of some sort. I think we've run the gamut from determining the
behavior, explaining the behavior, and a possible resolution to the
behavior, so I think we're likely done here.

-Zach

Zach, is there not a registry hack for this? I have been a network tech for 25 years so I would consider myself an expert in the Dos/Windows OS environment. I have managed every OS since Dos first came out.

Vista is the first OS where I couldn't believe how much they "dumbed" it down. I have not deployed it in my network as it is just so ridiculously simplified that it will not be a good replacment for XP.

I do a lot of website design and often have to open more than 25 100k jpeg thumbnails. The reason that MS took away this ability in Vista baffles me. What was the reason given? It cannot possibly be performance as I have been doing this on XP since Pentium I's with 128MB Ram. With XP it would just warn you and that was that.

What on earth is considered a 'legacy app'? I am running Adobe Fireworks CS3 written for Vista and that won't open more than 15 jpgs with the context menu.

Microsoft Office 2007 won't let me open a .doc and a .docx at the same time regardless of the fact they are both SET to default to Office 2007.

Please tell me there is a registry change for this.

12-07-2008	#21 (permalink)
lforbes Vista Home Premium 32bit 2 posts	Re: Opening multiple files Quote: Originally Posted by zachd [MSFT] To others: the definitive differential in the file opening experience is based upon the application's shell association type. Legacy handlers are limited to 15 selections by default for performance reasons. Applications using modern shell association methods will not have this limitation. No, that's part of WYSIWII. What You Select Is What Is Invoked. The Open With menu item only supports one selection, so it would be incorrect to make it available. OK: I had previously respected your difference of opinion by pointing out that this behavior is by design for legacy style associations, and that if you disagree with the current implementation, your best resource would be actual Product Support where you could attempt to garner support for an update of some sort. I think we've run the gamut from determining the behavior, explaining the behavior, and a possible resolution to the behavior, so I think we're likely done here. -Zach Zach, is there not a registry hack for this? I have been a network tech for 25 years so I would consider myself an expert in the Dos/Windows OS environment. I have managed every OS since Dos first came out. Vista is the first OS where I couldn't believe how much they "dumbed" it down. I have not deployed it in my network as it is just so ridiculously simplified that it will not be a good replacment for XP. I do a lot of website design and often have to open more than 25 100k jpeg thumbnails. The reason that MS took away this ability in Vista baffles me. What was the reason given? It cannot possibly be performance as I have been doing this on XP since Pentium I's with 128MB Ram. With XP it would just warn you and that was that. What on earth is considered a 'legacy app'? I am running Adobe Fireworks CS3 written for Vista and that won't open more than 15 jpgs with the context menu. Microsoft Office 2007 won't let me open a .doc and a .docx at the same time regardless of the fact they are both SET to default to Office 2007. Please tell me there is a registry change for this.
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