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Hi Pixey, Yes, I had already tried that. As a matter of fact, I had tried more than that: DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth sfc /scannow fsutil dirty set c (add a colon after C - this forum makes it into a happy face if I put the colon) Plus some advanced utilities to fix the Windows Registry. etc., etc. I have several other file managers installed in the computer. I decided to uninstall them all. After that, the File Explorer right-click worked as it is supposed to. So, I re-installed one by one the other file managers and the only one now that does not work properly is Directory Opus. I cannot, for right now, figure out how to fix that one (the context menu Paint.net issue that is). In the end, I just got tired of troubleshooting and decided to implement another way around the problem. What I want is to be able to right-click on an image (anywhere in the hard drive or any storage device) and then be able to select Paint.net to open that file. So, since "Open with... Paint.net" is not working properly with Directory Opus (but it does work now with all the other file managers), why not make a new Context Menu entry all together? One that would work globally with any file manager. These are the steps. Step 1 - CRUCIAL Find the Paint.net installation folder path. In my case is: C:\Program Files\paint.net Step 2 Open "Notepad" or another text editor and paste the following: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Paint.net] "Icon"="C:\\Program Files\\paint.net\\paintdotnet.exe" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Paint.net\Command] @="C:\\Program Files\\paint.net\\paintdotnet.exe \"%1\"" Step 3 Save the file with any name you want to your desktop or any folder. For example, file name: "Paintdotnet fix reg code" and Notepad will make this into a .txt file. Step 4 Using a file manager, change the file extension of the file from ".txt" to ".reg" and the new file name should read: "Paintdotnet fix reg code.reg" Step 5 Double click on the registry file to import the contents into the registry. Step 6 Using Dopus (Directory Opus) or any other file manager, go to an image file and right click on it, then you will find "Open with Paint.net" right there (somewhere in the Context Menu - for me it shows towards the bottom) and no need to go into "Open with..." anymore. Now Paint.net opens the file only once!!! If you installed Paint.NET to a different directory/path, then simply modify the code above to reflect that. For example, say you installed it to this Path: C:\Programs\PaintDotNet Then the registry file will be: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Paint.net] "Icon"="C:\\Programs\\paintdotnet\\paintdotnet.exe" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Paint.net\Command] @="C:\\Programs\\paintdotnet\\paintdotnet.exe \"%1\"" IMPORTANT: Notice that in the Windows Registry, folders use TWO back slashes \\ for the path. This solutions saves me a second not having to go an extra step anymore (into "Open with..."). I almost forgot to mention that this registry fix (above) will only work with a Windows Administrator account. For a "User" account, this should work (this one I have not tested though): Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\directory\shell\Open with Paint.net] "Icon"="C:\\Program Files\\paint.net\\paintdotnet.exe" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\directory\shell\Open with Paint.net\Command] @="C:\\Program Files\\paint.net\\paintdotnet.exe \"%1\"" Don't forget to make sure the install path is correct, or modify it if you need to.

toe_head2001, opening the image file using the "Run" option opens the file only once. No problem there. Pixey, "File Manager" is the technical and universal name given to all programs in all operating systems which are designed to help you handle all your files (copy, move, delete, rename, find, open, etc). In the Mac OX the built-in file manager is called "FINDER" and in Windows it is called "File Explorer". In Linux the file manager is called by different names depending on the distro (version of Linux), for example: Dolphin, Krusader, Nemo, Thunar, Caja, Konqueror, PcManFM, XFE, etc. By the way, for Windows there are far more advanced file managers than File Explorer, such as: DirectoryOpus, SpeedCommander, Total Commander, Free Commander XE, etc. Don't worry, I understand that not everyone knows these terms. Don't worry. I've been around computers since the day they came out to the market, and I am also a computer programmer. Maybe I'm a computer nerd after all. The strange thing is that this is only happening with this particular program, Paint.net. I have several other photo editing programs and they all behave normally. I am researching (trying to find) a "Context Menu" editor app that can actually open ALL the setting for the right-click that Windows has. As you know, there are two main advance places where all Windows settings can be found: GPEDIT.MSC and the Windows REGISTRY. I am well verse with both, but I don't want to spend countless hours looking through them and testing each setting. A dedicated app should be able to pull ALL the right-click/context menu settings and help me view or edit the entries for a particular program. However, all the apps that I have found are limited and the only ones that come closed are made by NirSoft but still can't find the solution. If I find the answer I'll post it here. Thanks for your help.

Pixey, Thanks for your help. I'm not irritated by your effort. Not at all. I apologize if I sound irritated. I already checked the registry. Remember that I mentioned that I had uninstalled completely the program and that I cleaned the registry from all Paint.net entries. After installed, I went one by one checking the Paint.net registry entries and they are all as they should be. Also, do notice that on the screenshot that I provided the two instances (or two windows) that have been opened is of the same file... opened twice by the program. I hope someone can shine some light on this issue.

I think there is a confusion here. I have only the Windows 10 desktop, absolutely no window of any sort is opened at all, not even Paint.net. Then I go to Windows Explorer (file manager), navigate to the local folder (or network folder, it makes no difference) where I have jpg or png files, then I right-click on one (and only one) of the files and choose "Open with..." and then I choose Paint.net. When the program opens, it opens the one file twice (what Pixey calls "two windows"). Please read carefully what I just said so you don't think I don't know what I'm doing or what is happening. For example, Pixey just said that "Per your screen, you have two 'windows' opened. " which is correct but those two "windows" that are opened were opened by Paint.net out of it's own volition when using the "Open with..." in the file manger. By the way, I think she meant "two files opened" or two instances opened of the same file. Also, Pixey suggestion is to open another file while Paint.net is opened. If you read my original post you will notice that I said that opening any file once Paint.net is open (using File, Open) is not a problem at all, it will only open the file once - no error there. My post here is about opening a single file using the right-click/context menu when using a file manager (which means that Paint.net is not open yet). Now, if Pixey meant to open another file with the right-click/context menu using a file manager while Paint.net is opened, then that also will open the single selected file twice regardless if I already have another file opened or not. Again, I completely uninstalled Paint.net (I cleaned the windows registry from all entries from Paint.net, I ran other troubleshooting steps such as using chkdsk, futils, dism, and some registry cleaners) and then re-installed it and the problem persisted. I did the same on another computer and the problem persisted. I also ran six different antiviruses (Bitdefender, GData, Emsisoft, ESET, Malwarebytes, HitmanPro) on the computers and all was completely clean. Oh, by the way, I have a clean install of Paint.net. No plugins or anything else added, just as it is "out of the box". I am thinking that perhaps there is a hidden setting in Paint.net or some Windows 10 registry tweak that need to be implemented/deleted/fix. I am hoping that someone else has ran into this problem and found a solution they can share. It is probably something simple, but I can't see it. Thanks.

Hello, When I do a right-click (using a file manager) and use "Open-with" on any image, Paint.net opens the image file twice. I already uninstalled Paint.net, then cleaned the registry from any remints on the hard drive. I was thorough. After that I downloaded the latest version as of today and installed it. The issue still persists. NOTE: IF I first open Paint.net and go to File-Open then the image file opens only once. No problem there. This issue started happening after I installed this last update 4.3.10 Is there a setting or a fix so that the context menu option (when using a file manager) will only open the image file once? Thanks.