Originally Posted by
ralfp
Dunno about your case, but a recent update (forget what) basically killed MDI for me... Any long file names in the recent file history make it crash when I pull down the File menu. I have to edit the file names to shorten them and use regedit to remove the recent file list. I now create PDFs instead; that way I won't be stuck without a way to read my files.
You know, I had a hunch that long file names may be a part of the problem, so I ve been trying to conscientiously replace the ellipsis that it adds after so many characters with a short file name...no dice.
So you just gave up on MDI?
(As a side note, the update business is positively irritating. I've turned off all the bells and whistles in Vista so that my desktop is basically a Win2000 look-alike, and it still stubbornly downloads and installs Windows Updates even though my setting is "never check for updates". I see them because it also creates restore points at the same time.)