JJ, that's BRILLIANT!!!
It worked! Wow.
I modified things a little bit, not much, but here's what I did. I actually put the BAT right into the SendTo folder, then I hid it. I made a shortcut to it and called it "MS Paint ..." and then pointed the icon path to MS Paint's executable and then selected the regular MS Paint icon from the various icons available in the exec. I searched for a few JPGs and dumped them into the "MS Paint ..." shortcut in SendTo and in milliseconds had them all opened.
One question, though, to fine-tune ... can the BAT tell Paint to open the windows MAXIMIZED, though? That would be the ultimate although this is great just the way it is.
Thank you, thank you!!!
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