You can get rid of the double opening by changing the line to be < path to exe > -SHELL "%1"

>Hi Alan (and Sasha),
>
>Very late getting back to this...
>
>Thanks both. I had to do it by hand as I don't have VFP7 installed on the system, but that was just fine.
>The double-opening was what it did before, so no upset there < s >
>
>cheers
>>
>>Alan
>>
>>>After downloading and installing VFP9 I ran

VFP8.exe /REGSERVER

However, now whenever I click on another VFP-related file in Explorer a new instance of VFP8 is opened!
>>>
>>>Previously, of course, it would simply 'add' the clicked item to the opened session of VFP.
>>>
>>>Since I "live" in Explorer (I hardly use the desktop in minute-to-minute work) this is extremely aggravating.
>>>
>>>Does anyone know how I can get it back to the way it should be (and was)?
>>>
>>>Thanks