Annoying problem

[KlumpDud]

This problem started for apparently no reason, and is more of an annoyance than an emergency, but if you can help I'd really appreciate it.

Here's what used to happen: If I highlighted multiple jpg's and open them all at once, one explorer window would open up maximized and every picture would be in that one window; to scroll through them, I'd just click Forward or Back, like a website.

Here's what happens now: If I highlight mulitple jpg's and open them all at once, each one opens in a separate window (not maximized).

I went to folder options and made sure "Open each folder in the same window" was selected, but it still gives me that problem.

I notice something that may have to do with it: on my friends computer, which is opening them all in the same window the way I want mine to do, the jpg icons look like white pages with a pencil drawing a picture in the middle.

On my computer, the jpg icons look like white pages with a little internet exploer "e" in the middle.

Can anyone help?

[KlumpDud]

nobody knows, the trouble i've seen...

[glc]

On your computer, jpg files are associated with Internet Explorer. On your friend's, they are associated with another program. We all have our preferences, but I use Irfanview (a free image viewer/editor). This will do exactly what you want if you associate it with your image files.

[KlumpDud]

Thanks for Irfanview, it's pretty cool.

However, on my friend's comp, when he double clicks a jpg, it opens up in IE also, only it's the way I described previously. What's the deal?