Hi there...

Acrobat has one of the most annoying "features" of any 
program that I have ever encountered, that when you 
open multiple files they open in multiple windows within 
the main acrobat window rather than in a separate top 
level window.


A quick search of the web showed that you can start 
acrobat with the '/n' switch to open a new top level 
window each time that it is started.  That works great 
and is a life saver for me who has dual monitors and likes 
to read things side by side sometimes (gasp!)


Now the tricky part (and the actual question), how can I 
set things up so that when I double click on a .pdf file in 
the file manager it opens up the pdf file in a new top level 
window as well?


I tried changing the registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.pdf

Application to "Acrobat.exe /n" but no joy, windows 
doesn't recognize that the /n is a command line switch 
and just throws up a window asking me to choose what 
application to open the file with.


Anyone have any ideas on this?  Is is possible in general 
to supply command line switches to programs that are 
used to open files when they are double-clicked?


thanks-
dan

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