On Apr 30, 2:27*am, wrote:
Thanks for the replies, everyone. *First off, boy, do I ever know that there are better apps out there than MS Paint. *I have several, indeed, at home. *However, at work there are 2 issues: *1. We're not allowed to bring in 3rd party apps. *2. Even if we could, the registry is locked down so we couldn't install it either. (and 3. Even if I snuck in a 3rd party portable application to get around 1. and 2. above, if I got caught ... nah, not worth it).

MS Paint does very well for the work screenshot tutorials I seem to write quite frequently at work. *However, the opening of multiple files at once to do that work is TEDIOUS! *Ugh. *Anyway, the last bat file sounds like a great solution if it works. *I put a shortcut in SendTo as one of the workarounds I tried to do but MS Paint just won't open more than 1 file at once. *So having something to intercept 15-20 images at once and then get Paint to open them would be grand. *I'll give it a try.

Thx!

Just as a test, on this Win98 PC I highlighted a series of .bmp
images, hit enter, and they all opened in individual MSpaint windows.
Doing EXACTLY what it sounded like you wanted. Didn't try on the
WinXP, hate to use it. For me, when MS moved to the 'new and improved'
MSPaint in WinXP; again, and as usual, they screwed it up. So, I had
to go back and pull the mspaint.exe from the Win98 installation and
put it in somewhere on my WinXP PC, then add the appropriate
shortcuts, like desktop. Same with Notepad, had to install Win98
version on the WinXP.

Perhaps the multiple opening is a function of MSpaint version and NOT
WinXP OS; so put a copy of your MSpaint Win98 version on your work PC
and give it a try.

Anyway, I didn't have to 'install' mspaint onto the WinXP just put it
somewhere, so you can take it to work and put it in your storage
files. Not third party and is MS so everyone should be happy.