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**Paul** · April 29th 13, 02:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

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.

Thx.

If I go to a Command Prompt window and type

mspaint

I can start another instance of the program. That
to me is an encouraging sign.

I can also go to Start : Run and type mspaint
in there as well.

That implies, you could make a .bat file, and
put something like this in it...

mspaint C:\Downloads\sample1.bmp
mspaint C:\Downloads\sample2.bmp
mspaint C:\Downloads\sample3.bmp

then three windows would open.

What I cannot figure out for you, is how
you'd integrate this knowledge, into a
multi-selection. Maybe it would take scripting
or something (to convert multiple arguments,
into individual program invocations).

Do you actually want to use mspaint ? Maybe
there is a third-party program that has a more
complete feature set, and can actually keep
multiple windows open on its own.

Paul