Jim,
I would strongly recommend you get "Freedom of Association", freeware from
www.pcmag.com.
For a quick solution, you have to open an explorer window, select "Tools | Options...", select the page "File types", and eliminate the offending program (the program you don't recognize is probably listed by name there - it might be a program that no longer exists on your computer - at least, I found this to be a frequent problem).
Once you delete the offending association, the next time you double-click on a BMP, Windows will ask you with what program you want to open it with. Select your favorite picture viewer, which might be MS-Paint, Opera, or a commercial picture editor like Corel PhotoPaint.
HTH, Hilmar.
>Sergey and Hilmar,
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>That's the area of the problem alright (boy did I laze out on that one!) but it seems that I'll just have to live with it!@#!$@#
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>I found that there was no .bmp defined (even though Paint does start up when I d-click on a file with no spaces in the path name). So I went to define one. But it told me that it was already used by some program that I don't recognize. Went to look for other associations with that program and didn't find the program listed.
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>So I'm in a box. I can't change the thing but I have nothing that I can knowingly delete either.
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>Thanks both for the help
>Jim
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