Hi Jim,

Try to uninstall Paint and install again. Maybe it will "fix" associations.

>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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>>>I have a new VFP project and the client is sending some specs through .bmp format.
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>>>Whenever the file has a space in the name an error is emitted whenever I d-click on the file name in the Windows Explorer. As soon as I change the name (whole path) to not have blanks anywhere in it, MSPaint starts up just fine.
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>>>Does anyone know of a fix/workaround for this bothersome bug? This is using Win98SE, fully up-to-date.
>>>
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>>Jim,
>>Go to Widows Explorer -> Viev -> Folder Options -> File Types and find Bitmap Image in the list. Click Edit, Click on "Open" in the actions list and Edit again. Make sure that %1 parameter is encloused in the double quotes. Someting like

"C:\PROGRA~1\ACCESS~1\MSPAINT.EXE" "%1"