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Hi. I am on an HP Pavillion 5310US with Windows XP. I use Paint Shop Pro X
for graphic editing. I had recently posted in the corel.PaintShopProX
newsgroup about a problem I have been having where PSP will open a new
instance of itself each time I double click on an image or graphic to edit
it. One of the suggestions given was to do the following:

"Start Regedit and make the following changes:

Locate the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\P aint Shop Pro
X.exe\shell\Open\ddeexec
and change the value of (default) to
[open("%1")]"


Now, when I got to the last part of that, there was no \ddeexec folder or
file. The only other folder in that directory was \command.

Do I need to make a ddeexec folder? Or how would I do this?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Lady R

"Lady Rhyanon" <> wrote in message
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> Hi. I am on an HP Pavillion 5310US with Windows XP. I use Paint Shop Pro
> X
> for graphic editing. I had recently posted in the corel.PaintShopProX
> newsgroup about a problem I have been having where PSP will open a new
> instance of itself each time I double click on an image or graphic to edit
> it. One of the suggestions given was to do the following:
>
> "Start Regedit and make the following changes:
>
> Locate the key
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\P aint Shop Pro
> X.exe\shell\Open\ddeexec
> and change the value of (default) to
> [open("%1")]"
>
>
> Now, when I got to the last part of that, there was no \ddeexec folder or
> file. The only other folder in that directory was \command.
>
> Do I need to make a ddeexec folder? Or how would I do this?
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Lady R
>
You would right mouse button "new key" then rename it and add new d-word
value, - but if you want my advice and you aren't
sure how to back up or modify your registry, i would keep well away from it.

Brian Day

Lady Rhyanon wrote:
> Hi. I am on an HP Pavillion 5310US with Windows XP. I use Paint
> Shop Pro X for graphic editing. I had recently posted in the
> corel.PaintShopProX newsgroup about a problem I have been having
> where PSP will open a new instance of itself each time I double click
> on an image or graphic to edit it. One of the suggestions given was
> to do the following:
> "Start Regedit and make the following changes:
>
> Locate the key
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\P aint Shop Pro
> X.exe\shell\Open\ddeexec
> and change the value of (default) to
> [open("%1")]"
>
>
> Now, when I got to the last part of that, there was no \ddeexec
> folder or file. The only other folder in that directory was \command.
>
> Do I need to make a ddeexec folder? Or how would I do this?
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Lady R

Wow! A PaintShop Pro user! I thought Photoshop had killed Corel <g>

(I still use an old copy of PaintShop that came with Ventura Publisher 8 -
never upgraded.)

--
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking
like an idiot.

"Brian Day" <> wrote in message
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> "Lady Rhyanon" <> wrote in message
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>> Hi. I am on an HP Pavillion 5310US with Windows XP. I use Paint Shop
>> Pro X
>> for graphic editing. I had recently posted in the corel.PaintShopProX
>> newsgroup about a problem I have been having where PSP will open a new
>> instance of itself each time I double click on an image or graphic to
>> edit
>> it. One of the suggestions given was to do the following:
>>
>> "Start Regedit and make the following changes:
>>
>> Locate the key
>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\P aint Shop Pro
>> X.exe\shell\Open\ddeexec
>> and change the value of (default) to
>> [open("%1")]"
>>
>>
>> Now, when I got to the last part of that, there was no \ddeexec folder or
>> file. The only other folder in that directory was \command.
>>
>> Do I need to make a ddeexec folder? Or how would I do this?
>> Any help is appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> Lady R
>>
> You would right mouse button "new key" then rename it and add new d-word
> value, - but if you want my advice and you aren't
> sure how to back up or modify your registry, i would keep well away from
> it.
>
> Brian Day
>
Thank you, Brian
Lady R