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**JJ[_10_]** · April 30th 13, 06:12 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:08:43 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
Is there any workaround that anyone knows of to highlight a group of
images and have MS Paint open them? MS Paint natively only handles
opening files one by one even if many are highlighted and the "open"
option selected in the context menu.

I have to agree with everyone here, MS Paint is a very basic image editor
that most experienced users find it very lacking. But some might find it
useful enough.

Paul there, already gave you a simple solution. To make it work, a simple
batch file below can be used with either ".BAT" or ".CMD" extension. Just
save it as "paint.cmd", put it somewhere, then create a shortcut for it in
the "SendTo" folder. Change the shortcut property to run minimized so that
the command prompt window won't be distracting. To use it, select the
images, right-click the selection, choose "Send To", then choose the Paint
shortcut. Be careful not to open too many images, though.

---start of "paint.cmd". don't include this line---
@echo off
:chk
if "%~1" == "" goto :eof
start /b mspaint %1
shift
goto chk