Why is it doing this?

[Poorpaulus]

What I open an assembly within Solidworks, all is well, but when I open the same assembly (well, any assembly really) from within Windows by double-clicking the file directly, Solidworks tries to open-up almost every SW file that I have on my hard drive.

Any idea why?

Paul.

 

[SBaugh]

it shouldn't do that. try running a Modify or a repair on your system and see if that fixes it... if not then you might consider the clean uninstall and reinstall... See FAQ on that process here.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[SnowCrash]

I would guess that when starting SW that way it also opens the last project you had in memory when you last closed it or it crashed? I just tried it and that's what happened to me.

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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2005 SP 4.0 (reluctant to change)
Matrox Millenium G550
AMD Athalon 1.8 GHz 512 Meg RAM