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I notice that if I select several files and the right-click -> Open, all the files are opened in their respective applications. But if I use right-click -> Open With, only one file (apparently selected at random) is opened. (I'm trying to open various source files in Notepad.)

Is there any way a multiply-selected "Open With" can be persuaded to work?

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it's seemingly not possible to open multiple files with the open with on the context menu. Have a look at this discussion: forum.soft32.com/windows/…. Although will look if someone else has found a workaround – rzlines Feb 3 '11 at 9:59

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I don't think it's possible to do what your asking, but I would suggest downloading Notepad++. You can select multiple files and select Edit with Notepad++ from the context menu. That will open all the files in a tabbed view.

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Thank you for that; I'll take your advice. – Brian Hooper May 12 '11 at 15:07
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If you associate all the different file types you need to open with Notepad, the Open command should open all of them in Notepad.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859

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thank you for your suggestion. I'd like to be able to do that, but the file extensions mean I can't (the file names are Something.bas, because they are VAX Basic files currently residing on my PC, and I don't want to affect the Visual Basic files SomethingElse.bas). – Brian Hooper Feb 3 '11 at 18:13
Not sure I understand what you mean, but do see it would be useful to have a right click selection "open all with" when you multiple select. – Moab Feb 3 '11 at 18:21

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